QA Testing Analyst

Quality Assurance Tester

Responsible for the planning, integration, test casing, scripting and execution of all testing to ensure proper coverage; Schedules and leads test deliverables review sessions as necessary; Work on multiple projects/systems as a project team member and are considered to be a subject matter expert for a single project/system. These projects are of moderate to high complexity within one or more development environments; Collaborate with the BSA and Development teams in the analysis and review of business objectives and requirements to ensure requirements are testable; Actively participate in the review of architectural and technical design specifications; Develop, document and maintain the test data, data validation, end to end testing flows.; Conducts testing using manual and/or automated test processes and reports results; May run database queries in order to supply data validation within test scripts; Updates test cases based upon approved change requests; Works with BSAs and Development teams on defect analysis and triage; Assigns defect severity, and manages defects throughout the project; Works with colleagues and project managers to meet established target dates and completion of activities/deliverables under changing conditions; Creates test status reports per project guidelines; Creates test results and test summary deliverables to ensure production implementation readiness; Creates and facilitates review of the Test Strategy with the project team; Identifies any potential quality issues per defined processes and escalates potential quality issues immediately to management; Collects testing sign-off from all testing participants, including cross-impacted application teams; Ensures all aspects of testing, such as manual execution, regression, automation and performance testing, is completed; Collaborates with Project Test Lead on estimating the test efforts; Collaborates with the project team to support UAT efforts as needed; Maintains the regression test bed to meet changing requirements; Participates in off-hour production releases as needed; Supports the project’s warranty period as needed; Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgement and problem solving; Provides mentorship to junior team members as needed; Understands and follows the project lifecycle methodology consistently.