QA Test Analyst

QA Test Analyst (Manual & Automation)
Location: Hartford, CT - Hybrid one day in office a week
Employement Type: Contract

Required Qualifications:

• Five (5) or more years of Quality Assurance experience testing large enterprise applications

• Strong hands-on manual testing experience

• Experience with test automation and automated testing frameworks

• Professional working proficiency in English and Spanish sufficient to perform Spanish-language application and content validation

• Experience working throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

• Strong understanding of Quality Assurance methodologies, testing processes, and best practices

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and technical teams

• Ability to interpret business requirements and convert them into detailed test scenarios and test cases

• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments

• Experience using Jira for defect tracking and Agile project management

• Strong attention to detail, particularly when comparing English and Spanish application content.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing across multiple enterprise applications.

• Perform dedicated testing and validation of Spanish-language application functionality and resident-facing content.

• Compare Spanish-language functionality and content against approved English requirements and expected business outcomes.

• Validate Spanish screens, correspondence, notices, messages, forms, labels, instructions, and application workflows.

• Develop comprehensive test scenarios, test cases, and automated test scripts based on business and technical requirements.

• Develop test scenarios specifically addressing Spanish-language functionality and content.

• Review business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, technical documentation, and design documents to identify testing needs.

• Participate in requirements walkthroughs, sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and design review sessions.

• Estimate testing effort and provide input into overall project planning and release schedules.

• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, API, and end-to-end testing activities.

• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using approved automation frameworks.

• Validate interfaces and integrations between enterprise applications and external systems.

• Perform backend database validation using SQL queries.

• Execute API and web service testing using industry-standard tools.

• Document test execution results and communicate testing progress to project leadership.

• Identify, document, prioritize, and manage software defects through resolution.

• Clearly document defects involving Spanish-language content or functionality so they can be understood and resolved by business and technical teams.

• Participate in defect triage meetings and validate software fixes.

• Ensure complete traceability between business requirements, test cases, and executed tests through the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).

• Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, architects, project managers, vendors, and State business stakeholders.

• Support production implementations by performing release validation and post-production verification.

• Assist in continuously improving QA standards, automation frameworks, testing processes, and quality best practices.

Bilingual Spanish Testing Requirement:

This assignment has a substantial Spanish-language testing component.

Candidates should demonstrate professional working proficiency in both English and Spanish, including the ability to:

• Read and comprehend complex Spanish-language application content.

• Validate Spanish translations against approved English-language requirements and source content.

• Test Spanish-language screens, fields, labels, instructions, error messages, alerts, and other user-facing functionality.

• Validate Spanish correspondence, notices, forms, and other resident communications.

• Identify incorrect, incomplete, inconsistent, misleading, or contextually inappropriate Spanish-language content.

• Validate that Spanish and English application experiences provide consistent business functionality and outcomes.

• Develop and execute test cases specifically covering Spanish-language functionality.

• Document Spanish-language defects clearly for business and technical teams.

• Communicate identified discrepancies to English-speaking project stakeholders.