Job Description :
IDEALFORCE has a Contract position available immediately for a Quality Assurance Analyst to join our customer in Phoenix, AZ. Please find below additional details about this job. Kindly respond with your most up to date resume if you would like to pursue this opportunity. Client is considering only LOCAL CANDIDATES for this role at this time.
Summary
The QA Analyst candidate will work closely with product owners, developer and project managers to define and prioritize testing requirements; communicates test results and status reports in an agile environment. The candidate will add value to the team by validating the web applications and backend systems meet requirements and design specifications.
Responsibilities
- Review functional business requirements and design specifications to ensure understanding of deliverables such as test strategy, test plans and test cases.
- Develop, document and maintain test cases and other test artifacts like test data, test scripts.
- Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results.
- Publish and communicate test results and test plan statuses using established processes.
- Isolate, replicate and report defects and verify defect fixes.
- Work closely/collaboratively with cross-functional teams (Dev, Management, Operations
- Participate in all aspects of functional, regression, user acceptance and load testing.
- Provide estimates for test efforts.
- Coordinate with Network Services team to ensure required test platforms are available.
- Identify quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues.
-Participate in software design discussions, reviews and test strategy sessions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of relevant QA technical experience with functional testing, regression testing and integration testing.
- Expertise in creating clear, concise test plans and test cases. Ability to understand and create test plans and test cases from specifications.
- Experience writing black box and user interface test cases, designing tests to mitigate risks.
- Experience in context-based, exploratory, or scenario testing.
- Working understanding of source control and test management tools.
- Basic understanding of programming.
- Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Preferred
- Experience in the education industry is preferred.
- Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team preferred.
- Experience with TFS, MTM and MS Test is preferred.
- Exposure to test automation scripts using Selenium is preferred.
- Intermediate level of SQL Server database query language (TSQL) and using that write queries to extract data out of databases is preferred.
Soft Skills
- Ability to effectively collaborate with developers and business experts.
- Ability to work as part of a self-directed team, in which tasks are determined daily in coordination with co-workers, rather than being assigned.
- Ability to excel in a collaborative and distributed team environment.
- Ability to work with a minimal amount of direction while being pro-active in keeping their management informed of project related issues.
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Ability to respectfully question ideas and share a point of view with others in support of the business requirements and needs.
- Ability to effectively communicate with various levels of employees ranging from entry level to senior leadership.
- Ability to manage multiple projects at the same time and shift priorities quickly.
- Proven strong problem-solving skills, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong aspiration to learn new technologies.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
- "All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines".
- All candidates who are authorized to work in US are encouraged to apply.
- Most of our positions require Candidate to clear the Background check prior to commencing the assignment.
THIRD PARTY CANDIDATES:
Email your candidate/s resume to jb dot resumes at along with the following details: Rate, Current location and availability.
Disclaimer: The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.