QA Analyst

QA Analyst

Pittsburgh PA. – Must be local – Mostly remote but has to go into the office when needed (right now 2-3 times a month). Contract to hire.

Manager notes:

• 2-4 years of experience
• QA Automation
• Selenium
• JavaScript
• Web Application Automation
• SQL / Data Testing
• Automation on Mobile Apps a huge plus

2 step interview:

• First interview – Share screen and do some coding and scripting exercises and write a simple query
• Second interview

Responsibilities

• Build an automated testing platform for both web and mobile products: the ability to envision and create scripts for automated app testing is essential to this position
• Analyze system and business process requirements and design test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure test coverage
• Execute manual and automated tests at all test phases to verify application readiness for production implementation
• Work with the project team to ensure quality throughout the product lifecycle, including reviewing specifications and identifying and resolving software defects
• Validate developer-implemented resolutions to defects
• Configure and manage test environments for software testing
• Perform continuous risk identification with appropriate escalation
• Identify, track, and report effective quality metrics

Required Skills

• Requires a four-year technical degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum two years related work experience in software quality assurance testing and analysis including experience with automated testing
• Experience in automation and testing GUI applications (web and mobile), JavaScript, and backend database functionality
• Experience defining test strategies, test plans, comprehensive test cases, and scripts
• Experience with all types of testing: functional, system, integration, regression, exploratory, negative
• Ability to analyze requirements and ability to elicit additional information concerning requirements from stakeholders
• Excellent communication, project management, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in both waterfall and agile environments
• Ability to utilize automation testing tools, preferably Test-Complete, Selenium
• Experience in mobile test automation using Appium
• Experience or working knowledge of object-oriented programming (C++/C#/Java), is a plus
• Performance and security testing experience is a plus.
• HL7 interface testing and data migration testing experience is a plus
• Hybrid in-office and remote work with majority of time being remote. Candidates must currently live in the Pittsburgh, PA region or be willing to relocate due to occasional in-office work