QA Engineer

The client requires the services of a Quality Assurance Engineer to drive the planning, development, and implementation of testing activities to ensure the application meets functional, performance, and quality standards.

The client seeks a contractor resource to drive the development and implementation as a Quality Assurance Engineer. We are looking for a self-driven QA Engineer who will take initiative and ownership of testing activities by proactively managing tasks to meet timely deadlines, working independently with minimal supervision, accurately communicating identified issues, and delivering high quality QA results.

Expected Skills:
Ability to lead testing activities and make informed decisions; Maintain the capacity to manage complex work efforts; Demonstrates excellent verbal and written communication; Exhibits strong critical thinking and sound decision making capabilities ; Self motivated and ability to manage task independently; Takes ownership and accountability of assigned work.

Description (including, but not limited to):
Analyze business requirements for testability and completeness using Functional Specification Documents, Business Requirements Documents and Technical Design Documents.
Collaborate with business analysts, developers, product owners, scrum masters, and other team members to clarify requirements, expectations, and resolve issues.
Take ownership of developing requirements into test conditions, test case scenarios and test scripts, and drive them to competition.
Orchestrate development and execution of automated scripts using Qtest and Tosca to thoroughly test software to ensure proper operation and freedom from defects.
Maintain accurate and comprehensive test documentation, defect records, and traceability
Drives quality assurance activities across functional, integration, regression, system, and end to end testing.
Evaluate test cases and other testing artifacts to ensure the accuracy and completeness of all test artifacts.
Drive the coordination for testing, reports and tracks testing problems by providing reproducible test cases
Work with other product team members to diagnose and recreate problems as well as prioritize and implement solutions and close problem reports.
Oversee scripting data collection and analysis according to the project plan schedule and ensuring adherence to standard practices and procedures
Actively participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups
Identify and communicate risks with team and provide solutions before issues impact project delivery

Skill - Required / Desired - Amount of Experience
Experience and proficiency in using Tricentis tools including qTest and Tosca - Desired
Experience testing web, GUI, client/server, and database applications. - Required - 5 Years
Experience with requirements analysis and automated test cases/script development. - Required - 5 Years
Experience with manual or automated testing, testing tools, writing test plans and reviewing test cases. - Required - 5 Years
Strong analytical and problem solving skills. - Required - 5 Years
Good oral and written communications skills in order to interact on a daily basis with system developers, business analysts, and others. - Required - 5 Years
Ability to prioritize tasks within the project and work with minimal supervision or guidance. - Required - 5 Years
Experience with testing Curam products. - Highly desired
Experience testing for a health and human services project. - Highly desired
Experience with executing SQL to validate or test. - Required - 2 Years
Experience developing and executing Tosca automation test scripts. - Desired
Ability to work in a rapidly changing environment. - Required - 5 Years
Experience with Agile (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe) development - Required - 5 Years

Notes:
Onsite

VIVA is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants have an equal opportunity for placement, and all employees have an equal opportunity to develop on the job. This means that VIVA will not discriminate against any employee or qualified applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status