Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

This is a remote position.

The Contingent Plan is actively recruiting a senior quality assurance analyst for a client based in St. Paul. This is a 40-hour-a-week assignment that is expected to last 12 months. The role will be performed remotely, so the client is open to candidates anywhere in the upper Midwest (MN, WI, IA, SD, ND). Compensation is competitive and depends on experience. Sorry, no sponsorship is available at this time.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the appropriate resources to define and write Functional and Technical Testable Requirements (Waterfall) and/or User Stories and Acceptance Criteria (Agile).
  
• Have complete understanding of all functional and technical Requirements and/or Acceptance Criteria.
  
• Approve Requirements if asked to perform QA project lead duties.
  
• Have complete understanding of Design document to ensure the design complements the Requirements. Approve Design document if asked to perform QA project lead duties.
  
• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Level of Effort (LOE) estimate for all testing activities within the project.
  
• Work with the QA Supervisor and/or QA Lead to create the Test Strategy and Test Plans.
  
• Work with Business Analyst, Developers, and DBA’s in defining detailed and reusable Functional, System Integration, and Regression test cases and completing Requirements Traceability Matrix.
  
• Write detailed and reusable Functional, System Integration, and Regression Test Cases.
  
• Assist the Performance Engineer in determining business flows to be scripted and utilized in Performance/Load testing.
  
• Assist the Automation Engineer in determining test cases to be scripted and utilized in smoke / regression testing.
  
• Accurately document all defects in the defect tracking tool in a timely manner.
  
• Escalate all challenges to the appropriate resource(s) in a timely manner.
  
• Communicate effectively, both verbally and written.
  
• Attend and participate in the Defect Triage and Review meetings.
  
• Assist in managing the overall scope of the testing effort.
  
• Complete required QA documentation in an accurate and timely manner. Provide edits to QA documentation as necessary if the project’s Requirements change, if scope changes, if testing schedule changes, etc.
  
• Receive appropriate approval and sign-off for all testing documentation.
  
• Provide QA leadership to assigned project, when requested.
  
• Provide support to the UAT team, if requested.
  
• Provide, in timely manner, status of assigned project when requested.
  
• Execute manual and automation Test Cases for various test types (smoke, functional, regression, etc.).
  

Requirements

• Seven (7) years experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst. A B.S. or B.A. Degree (4 year) substitutes for four years of experience, or an Associate’s Degree (2 year) substitutes for two years of experience.
  
• Five (5) engagements/projects lasting a minimum of three (3) months each in a Quality Assurance Analyst role.
  
• Two (2) years IBM Cúram solution for Healthcare Reform manual testing experience.
  
• Experience planning and executing end to end testing of integrated systems including validation of the integration layer.
  
• Experienced in writing and executing SQL query commands.
  

Benefits