Lead QA Analyst

Job Details:

Title: Lead Test Analyst

Duration: 5 Months

Location: Olympia, WA

The candidate must be able to accomplish the specific tasks listed below:

Test Strategy and Planning:

• Develop a comprehensive test strategy and plan that covers all aspects of the project, including legacy system changes, and other enterprise system changes impacting client.

• Identify and document test objectives, test scope, test approach, and test deliverables.

• Define test metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of the testing process.

• Plan and coordinate all testing activities, including resource allocation, scheduling, and risk management.

• Identify and engage stakeholders in the testing process, including business users, technical teams, and external vendors.

• Define and implement a risk-based testing approach to prioritize testing efforts based on the critical business processes and high-risk areas.

• Analyze client's requirements, and client's user stories to determine the appropriate level of test coverage based on risk assessments.

Test Case Development:

• Develop test cases for client's Workday functionality, legacy system changes, new and changed business processes, new and changed integrations, and integration with Workday.

• Conduct test cases around user acceptance test, closed system testing, end to end test, functional tests, integration tests, and performance tests.

• Ensure that test cases are comprehensive, accurate, and aligned with the project requirements and business processes.

• Develop and maintain a test case repository to ensure traceability and reusability of test cases.

Test Execution and Defect Management:

• Manage the execution of all test cases, including OneWa test cases that pertain to client and additional test cases for client throughout all phases of testing.

• Coordinate with agency subject matter experts (SMEs) to ensure their participation in the testing process and to collect their feedback and test results.

• Collect and consolidate test results from all testers and prepare comprehensive test reports.

• Manage defect resolution process, including defect reporting, prioritization, assignment, and tracking.

• Coordinate with development teams to ensure timely resolution of defects.

• Conduct regular defect triage meetings with stakeholders to review and prioritize defects

Test Data and Environment Management:

• Manage, facilitate, and prepare test data and test environments for all testing activities.

• Ensure that test data is representative of production data and covers all priority scenarios.

• Manage, where applicable, test environments to ensure they are available, stable, and configured correctly for testing.

• Coordinate with technical teams to set up and maintain test environments, including databases, servers, and network configurations.

Test Automation:

• Evaluate and recommend test automation tools and frameworks for the project.

• Develop and maintain test automation scripts for regression testing and continuous integration testing.

• Integrate test automation into the overall testing process to improve efficiency and coverage.

• Ensure project performance and track progress with timeline and goals.

• Plan, monitor, and track key metrics for progress and performance.

• Identify root causes of projects' performance shortfalls and opportunities to improve.

• Develop project communication and status in the form of a Word document, PowerPoint presentations, website content, and all other materials as required.

• Design and facilitate regular and ad-hoc project meetings, also participate in other project related meetings as needed.

Cutover Planning and Execution:

• Lead and manage the client's cutover planning and execution in coordination with OneWa Program.

• Collaborate between One WA Program Teams, OneWA Agency Consultant, AST Lead (client's Project Manager).

• Responsible for the completion of the agency cutover checklist using template provided by the OneWa Program, maintaining progress, and status updates in a timely manner.

• Field questions and escalations regarding agency cutover activities and work with the cutover team to close open items.

• Manage client's cutover tasks, risks, issues, and agency project timelines to assure progress towards cutover plan of record.

• Work with the appropriate client's system owners, business and technical subject-matter-experts, and workstreams to assure cutover and system remediation processes, deliverables, and milestones are developed and completed.

• In coordination with client's project manager, lead the client's cutover and remediation progress reporting to the OneWA Program and client's leadership.

• Lead and participate in the cutover planning, cutover plan review, mock cutover, and cutover execution activities.

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