QA Tester-Jefferson City, Missouri

QA Tester

The Functional Testing Analyst will support independent testing, verification and validation for a high-volume, mission-critical application serving the Centers for Medicare Services (CMS). The candidate must be a team-player and able to contribute to the QA team with strong functional and manual testing fundamentals as well as help support performance testing and test automation. This position is in a deadline-driven environment where the tester must work collaboratively with the entire testing team through every step of the software development process.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Review requirements, specifications, user documentation, help files, and other project documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed.
• Create test scenarios and test cases from requirements documentation.
• Plan, prepare test data and execute functional test cases.
• Report defects and problems that occurred during the test process.
• Test and evaluate system performance for new or modified software modules and/or application environment changes.
• Thoroughly learn the product and become a knowledgeable resource, able to respond reliably to a variety of product questions regarding functionality, scope, supported usage, etc.

• Follow all established CMS XLC QA policies for test case writing, defect creation and requirements traceability.
• Provide project management with accurate testing estimates and regular detailed progress updates.
• Assist in any other testing or support activities as needed.

Development & Unit Testing System Testing Regression Testing all in a QA environment on mainframe and java applications. If they don't have both, java is preferred.

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