Quality Assurance Analyst

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Job Title:: QA Analyst

Location : Bethesda, MD (Hybrid 2-days office)

Duration: Full Time

Job Description:

This person is responsible for planning, managing, maintaining, coordinating and executing the test scripts for complex, multi-tier applications using manual testing and automated test suites to support overall application quality.

Responsibilities:

· Participate in all steps of the ongoing Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including but not limited to; requirements analysis; test planning; writing, reviewing, and executing test cases; and bug logging, tracking and closing.

· Review project documentation for all assigned projects to ensure project requirements are clearly defined.

· Create test plan documents and write test procedures based on requirements.

· Implement test plans within current guidelines by analyzing project requirement documents.

· Coordinate with requirements team to define test cases and maintain traceability.

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Work with applications designed / developed with Business Process Management (BPM), Java and Web Services.

· Design, develop, test, maintain, and execute reusable test automation and load testing scripts across different test environments.

· Execute test cases manually (if needed) based on business requirements.

· Apply appropriate automation technologies to meet QA testing goals using a minimum set of code / scripts for web-based applications and database infrastructures (web-based, UNIX and Windows based platforms).

· Coordinate integration testing activities across all supported applications.

· Report defects and escalate issues as needed.

· Work closely with software development team to reproduce and debug issues.

· Demonstrate ownership and accountability through self-directed task management.

Required Skills/Experience:

· Motivated Team player, with very strong analytical, diagnostic and debugging skills.

· Excellent oral and written communication skills.

· Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience with testing/quality assurance.

· Excellent problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills.

· Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g. Apache JMeter, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins) is desired.

· Experience with UNIX, databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server), JavaScript and XML are highly desirable.

· Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and experience working in agile / iterative SDLC environments

· Ability to excel in team-oriented, fast-paced environment.

· Able to work independently.

· Adheres to development standards, software development lifecycle processes.

· Constantly seeks ways to improve processes for increased agility and quality

· Experience writing basic SQL queries to obtain and compare results is desired.

· Experience using JIRA.