Quality Assurance Analyst - Manual and Automatic Testing

job summary:

Quality Assurance Analyst responsibilities include, but may not be limited to the following:

Business Analysis:

• Collaborate with project stakeholders and development team to define business requirements and translate them into functional design documents, as needed.
  
  
  
  



• Create and manage the Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
  
  
  
  



• Create and maintain use cases, and functional specifications.
  
  
  
  



• Work closely with the development team to ensure that business requirements are correctly understood and implemented.
  
  
  
  



• Analyze and document business processes, workflows, and system requirements, as needed.

Testing (Manual and Automation):

• Conduct manual testing of applications without reliance on testing tools, using methodical approaches.
  
  
  
  



• Develop, document, and execute comprehensive test plans and test cases based on project requirements and functional design documents.
  
  
  
  



• Perform different types of testing, including functional, regression, integration, and smoke.
  
  
  
  



• Identify and report bugs, track them to resolution, and work with the development team to resolve issues.
  
  
  
  



• Knowledge of automating testing by writing scripts and using programming languages or automation frameworks.
  
  
  
  



• Develop and maintain User Acceptance Testing (UAT) scenario test cases, automated test suites where applicable, ensuring consistency and usability among all.
  
  
  
  



• Performing test case scenarios for the upgraded and enhanced system following the customer's methodology of development testing, System testing, and User Acceptance Testing.
  
  
  
  



• Assist in user acceptance testing, as needed.

Test Strategy & Planning:

• Create and execute testing strategies that align with business goals and ensure high-quality product delivery.
  
  
  
  



• Design and implement test procedures for various types of testing, including system, integration, performance testing, stress testing, and security testing.
  
  
  
  



• Provide detailed documentation on test results, including defect logging and tracking.
  
  
  
  



• Ensure that all testing is well-documented, traceable, and aligned with the overall project plan.
  
  
  
  



• Interpreting traceability matrices to map business requirements to test cases.
  
  
  
  



• Creating performance and load testing metrices and provide statistical analysis of results.
  
  
  
  



• Contribute to activity definition, activity sequencing, activity resource estimating, activity duration estimating, WBS development to facilitate quality control testing of the application.
  
  
  
  



• Contribute to risk identification, tracking, analysis related to quality control testing.
  
  
  
  



• Contribute to issue management and tracking related to quality control testing.

Collaboration & Communication:

• Liaise with development teams and stakeholders to ensure proper implementation of functional requirements.
  
  
  
  



• Communicate progress, challenges, and results of the testing process to the project team and a weekly status report to the project manager.
  
  
  
  



• Participate in project meetings to provide insights from both a business analysis and testing perspective.
  
  
  
  



• Responsible for assisting with the coordination of project deliverables associated with quality control testing.
  
  
  
  



• Identify and document metrics for success in quality control testing.
  
  
  
  



• Effective communication among project stakeholders related to quality control testing.
  
  
  
  



• Coordinate activities with staff required to support the project for testing.
  
  
  
  



• Assist with the production implementation as needed.

Mandatory Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field or equivalent work experience.
  
  
  
  



• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in gathering and documenting business requirements (functional and non-functional) on full life cycle development projects.
  
  
  
  



• Minimum of three (3) years of experience as a quality assurance analyst or lead tester performing the work.
  
  
  
  



• Minimum of three (3) years of experience creating comprehensive Test Plans and use of automated testing tools.
  
  
  
  



• Experience and knowledgeable of software testing methods and best practices.
  
  
  
  



• Experience in creating and maintaining test plans, test cases, and performance testing.
  
  
  
  



• Experience in testing integration of multiple systems or applications.
  
  
  
  



• Experience in facilitation of meeting(s) to walk-thru test case/scenario documentation.
  
  
  
  



• Experience in functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing.
  
  
  
  



• Experience creating test strategies, detailed use cases, test plans, test cases, and performance testing.
  
  
  
  



• Experience in testing to adhere to Section 508/ADA compliance in web applications.
  
  
  
  



• Experience and technical knowledge in testing the J2EE/JAVA, JBOSS application server, MS SQL and ORACLE database environments.
  
  
  
  



• Experience and technical knowledge in testing web applications developed in Angular and other UI libraries.
  
  
  
  



• Experience with various testing tools and techniques.
  
  
  
  



• Experience querying data in tables to verify data insert/update/delete to tables, to produce quality testing results.
  
  
  
  



• strong attention to detail, quality minded with results oriented.
  
  
  
  



• strong analytical skills.
  
  
  
  



• Excellent communication skills (oral and written).
  
  
  
  



• Excellent analysis skills and successful discovery of system defects and issues.
  
  
  
  



• Excellent problem-solving skills.
  
  
  
  



• Excellent collaboration skills.
  
  
  
  



• Knowledgeable of software development methodologies and processes.
  
  
  
  



• Knowledgeable of Waterfall and Agile/Scrum methodologies.
  
  
  
  



• Skill to perform analysis and troubleshooting of system defects and issues.
  
  
  
  



• Skill to use defined procedures to configure, test and debug software.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to perform technical research of technologies and methods for testing the functional and nonfunctional requirements.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to work independently or cooperatively with team members.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to design quality control and test procedures.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to apply technical expertise to test system solutions.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to manage and perform the testing portion of the project, including services/products/technology solution evaluations/modifications, data development, analysis, first draft written communications, and client interaction.
  
  
  
  



• Accountable to the FDLE assigned Project Manager for the project.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to test the project components in the agreed schedule, to the correct technical specification (i.e., defined to meet user requirements) within the approved budget and other specified criteria.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to automate testing processes, including writing test scripts using tools like Selenium, JUnit, or similar.
  
  
  
  



• Ability to test in the following environments:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Java 21
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • REST services built using Java Spring Boot
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Angular
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Webpages built using HTML, CSS, and JS/TS.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • MS SQL Server
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Stored procedures, triggers, views, etc.
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • JBOSS 5.0 and higher
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • LoadRunner
  
  
  
  

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or other related field or equivalent work experience.
  
  
  
  



• Experience with creating automation scripts for testing.
  
  
  
  



• Certification in different Quality Control test methods.
  
  
  
  



• Proficient with the following products.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • Microsoft Visio
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Jira
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Loadrunner
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Alfresco ECM
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • SQL
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Java Spring Boot
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • Angular
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  • HTML, CSS, and JS/TS
  
  
  
  

location: Tallahassee, Florida

job type: Contract

salary: $

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