Senior QA Analyst

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KēSTA I.T is actively seeking a Senior QA Analyst foran immediate contract engagement with our client.

Job Description :

We Are Seeking a highly experienced Senior QA Analyst to lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT), quality assurance, test strategy, and business analysis activities across complex enterprise systems. This role will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, subject matter experts, system owners, developers, vendors, project managers, and testing teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements, quality standards, and operational expectations. The successful candidate will provide both strategic leadership and hands-on support across the full testing lifecycle, including requirements analysis, test planning, manual and automated testing, defect management, regression testing, data validation, and release readiness.

Responsibilities:
• Lead UAT activities from planning and preparation through execution, validation, documentation, and release readiness.
• Participate in requirements and solution design sessions to clarify business needs, validate proposed solutions, and identify testing requirements.
• Analyze business and functional requirements, system designs, workflows, and interface specifications to establish comprehensive and risk-based test coverage.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, test scenarios, test cases, and manual and automated test scripts.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, data validation, and UAT testing across enterprise applications.
• Coordinate testing activities among business users, technical teams, vendors, project managers, and other stakeholders.
• Partner with development and system integration testing teams to align testing efforts and improve overall quality coverage.
• Manage the complete defect lifecycle, including identification, documentation, prioritization, escalation, retesting, resolution validation, and reporting.
• Monitor and communicate testing progress, defect trends, quality risks, test coverage, and UAT results to project leadership and stakeholders.
• Evaluate and improve existing regression test suites to increase efficiency, coverage, and business-process validation.
• Develop and support test automation strategies by identifying appropriate automation opportunities, frameworks, and tools.
• Transition appropriate manual testing activities into automated solutions to improve testing efficiency and consistency.
• Perform data quality validation, reconciliation, and testing across applications, interfaces, reports, and enterprise data sources.
• Translate business requirements into clear testable scenarios, acceptance criteria, and technical testing documentation.
• Facilitate requirements walkthroughs, testing reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
• Support post-implementation validation, production issue analysis, and continuous quality improvement initiatives.
• Maintain testing documentation, evidence, metrics, and other project artifacts.
• Provide guidance and knowledge sharing to business users, testing teams, and project stakeholders.
• Manage multiple testing priorities and assignments while working independently in a fast-paced environment.

Required Skills
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and/or Business Analysis supporting enterprise systems.
• 3+ years of experience with test automation, including developing automation strategies and converting manual testing processes to automated solutions.
• 3+ years of experience developing test strategies, test cases, test scripts, and executing functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and UAT testing.
• 3+ years of experience using automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestComplete, Power Automate, UFT, or similar technologies.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with QA and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or comparable platforms.
• Experience analyzing business and functional requirements and translating business needs into testable scenarios.
• Experience performing data quality validation, data reconciliation, and testing across enterprise applications, interfaces, and reporting solutions.
• Experience working with Microsoft Power BI and/or Microsoft Fabric.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, including black-box, regression, negative, functional, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience with testing frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Power Automate, JUnit, and Azure Test Plans.
• Ability to develop user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive technical testing artifacts.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, deadlines, risks, and testing dependencies.
• Proven ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, vendors, business users, and technical stakeholders.

Preferred Skills
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience working with data systems and automated business processes.
• Experience creating or implementing automated testing solutions.
• Experience organizing and analyzing data to support business decision-making.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Familiarity with data warehousing, ETL processes, or data pipelines.
• Experience with .NET applications, Angular front-end applications, and relational databases.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with Microsoft Word and SharePoint.
• Experience with eligibility-based systems or complex enterprise business applications.
• Knowledge of system development and application configuration.
• Experience supporting production validation and post-implementation testing.
• Strong knowledge of business process analysis and quality improvement practices.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups and maintaining effective professional relationships.

Available Benefits:
• Medical Benefits (Platinum level plans available)
• Work from home / Hybrid / Onsite options
• PTO
• Holiday Pay
• VTO
• 401K
• Charitable Match
• Training reimbursement

About KēSTA I.T.:

Our name says it all; KēSTA I.T. (Keys-to-I.T.) AND our people are our keys to our success!

KēSTA I.T. is an IT staffing, consulting, and technical services company built around one simple belief: the right people can transform businesses.

We connect talented technology professionals with organizations that need the skills, experience, and expertise to move their technology initiatives forward. From contract staffing and direct hire to consulting and project-based solutions, we provide flexible technology talent across software, data, cloud, network, infrastructure, cybersecurity, CRM/ERP, and other critical IT disciplines.

Our culture is built on Putting People First, Integrity & Ethics, Growth, Accountability, Respect, and Continuous Improvement. We believe in open communication, taking ownership, doing what we say we're going to do, and continuously finding ways to get better.

Where do you want to go? We've got the keys! ~ KēSTA I.T.