QA Tester

Job Opportunity Job is 2 days on site in DC. Need 2 good manual testers. UAT needed Jira a must have. Great comm skills. Agile environment. Responsibilities: Participate and provide input on feature/story requirements, design, estimation, and test approach discussions Own the creation and ongoing maintenance of test artifacts Collaborate with the development team and business partners to ensure the scope of tests is comprehensive and to mitigate defects prior to testing Create test data sets which fully exercise data validation and end-to-end system functionality Identify potential impact areas to existing downstream functionality, presenting risks when appropriate Validate content presentation and grammar Mobile app experience a plus Identify and log defects if/when a test fails, if necessary, using SQL to narrow down the root cause of the problem for efficient investigation by the development team and log accordingly Own QA sign offs for maintenance releases, feature releases, and infrastructure releases Drive automation test coverage by working closely with Automation QA resources Strong knowledge of automation testing tools/frameworks (Selenium, Appium, TestNG, Jmeter); experience building an automation framework Jira/Atlassian experience is a must. Experience with Adobe AEM is preferred but not required. Participate in performance/stress testing activities, in collaboration with Dev/ Dev-ops teams, to ensure satisfactory performance of the system Provide input during key agile team review sessions (e.g., Iteration kickoff/Retrospectives, Release Readiness, etc.) Facilitate and support User Acceptance Testing. User Acceptance Testing will include functional and regression testing. Samprasoft