Quality Assurance Analyst/ Remote

Role- QA Analyst


Location- Remote (Must be willing to work in PST hrs)

Responsibilities:

You will be part of the team creating the next-generation internal systems for movie and direct-to-consumer creative development and production. You should be comfortable being part of a cross-functional team and working with a diverse group of business stakeholders and technologists. We expect you to have a deep understanding of Quality Assurance Testing.


Your key responsibilities will be:

1. Test Planning
   • Works with business analysts and application developers to develop test plans based on functional specifications.
   • Develops additional testing documents based on test plan, such as test scenarios, test cases and test matrices.
   • Creates test data to support test execution.
   • Assists in the preparation of scripts for automated test execution.
   • Assists in the set up of test environments to mirror production environment.

1. Test Execution
   • Works with clients and project team members to ensure requirements and development standards are met.
   • Executes test plans and scripts, both manual and automated.
   • Validates and documents test results.
   • Makes recommendations to project team and Production Acceptance regarding "quality readiness"
   • Assists with test environment refreshes.
   • Adheres to QA and departmental standards.
   • Participates in project meetings as required.

1. Defect Tracking
   • Documents and tracks program defects.
   • Provides cursory analysis of defects to developers and other project team members.
   • Provides research assistance to developers and other project team members to resolve open defects.

1. Quality Assurance
   • Participates in the improvement of existing quality assurance and control processes.
   • Disseminates standards to other testing groups and monitor compliance.
   • Works with project teams, application developers, or outside vendors to audit application testing.
   • Assists with the maintenance of test environment and testing tools.

1. Administration
   • Communicates plans, status and issues to management on a regular basis.
   • Adheres to department standards, policies, procedures and industry best practices.

• Working knowledge of testing methodologies, tools and techniques.
• Understanding of Project and Software Development Life Cycle Methodologies.

Understanding of the concepts behind distributed and multi-tiered applications

Skills:


Ability to analyse and process information.


Ability to understand and translate simple business needs into technical solutions.


Ability to create clear and concise documentation.


Ability to communicate verbally in a clear and concise manner.


Capable of creating process flow diagrams and flowcharts using Visio or similar charting tool.
Beginning to intermediate skills in SQL query language