QA Analyst

Remote | QA Analyst | Full-time

We are actively recruiting a QA Analyst for our client in Knoxville, TN. This is a fully remote contract opportunity. In this role, you will be responsible for the advancement, ownership, and support of the testing efforts for the team, including activities such as creating end-to-end testing strategies, test execution, and coordination of all testing activities to ensure that quality objectives are met and functioning to expected requirements. Must collaborate with Scrum/project teams to understand, test, and support program applications, key business functionalities, and complex technologies across the enterprise. Testing efforts may include various types withing the testing pyramid, and collaboration will be encouraged with engineers to establish a comprehensive understanding of unit testing, networking, infrastructure, and overall application architecture.

Due to client request, candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Primary Qualifications:

• Comprehensive understanding of Quality Assurance best practices and standards.
• Ability to speak at a detailed level on multiple testing types within the test pyramid (examples: UI, Service layer/integration, End to End, performance, load, functional, networking, security, UAT etc.).
• Proven ability to write, maintain and execute comprehensive test plans/strategies and test cases from a variety of requirement sources and documents.
• Creation, maintenance, and execution of manual/exploratory test cases, and ability to identify and execute automation for common test scenarios.
• Understanding of test data required for execution of different test scenarios and testing types.
• Lead the execution and reporting of detailed root cause analysis and issue triage to provide solution-based insight on areas of improved and deliverable quality.
• Advocate for quality and driving positive change in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including customer issues and resolution SLAs, often providing recommended solutions and improvements to ongoing process and delivery.
• Ability to provide value driven metrics and recommend specific measurable data that can be reported on, in order to highlight areas of quality for continuous improvement and risk analysis.
• Collaborate with direct team members as well as other team members and stakeholders across the enterprise and in the field to understand the key processes, technologies, business needs, and requirements for supported business functions, and facilitate meetings.
• Support other QA team members, mentoring and providing technical guidance to encourage ownership of goals, build morale, increase skills of others, and set a positive tone for the team.
• Assist team in removing daily roadblocks to help provide a smooth, high quality, and on time product delivery to the end user.

"Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled"

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