QA Analyst I

Job Title - QA Analyst I

Job Location - Providence RI 02907

Job Duration - 12 Months Contract

ONLY W2

Skills / Experience:

Performing QA functions including participation in project team meetings to understand project requirements, preparing test plans, conducting QA testing and evaluating results, mitigating any defects found and gathering appropriate evidence for upload into systems.

Strong communication skills to present metric data to project teams and report out work activities during scrum meetings.

Required:

5 years experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control

3 years of test coordination, manual, automation and performance testing tools (HP Suite of tools and/or Microsoft Test Manager/Team Foundation Server)

Must have knowledge of testing techniques to cover all possible corner cases for testing, verification and validation techniques.

Hands on experience on Test management tool HP Quality Center

Proven knowledge of quality assurance and software testing methodologies SDLC and STLC in waterfall and agile

Strong written and verbal communication must be able to clearly articulate himself/herself and be able to effectively communicate with management and customers

Must be a team player, quick responsiveness, contributor, coordinator, cooperative, understanding, polite and adaptive to accept changes in a complex changing environment

Must be willing to accept direction from seniors, colleagues and management

Desired but not mandatory:

Experience in Energy or Financial industry is a plus.

Role and Responsibilities:

Assist with detailed test strategy to support both waterfall and an iterative approach (Agile/Scrum) to software development and deployment

Assist with test life cycle management and coordination

Assist with the writing of detailed test plans and scripts both manual and automated

Verify / review software and business requirements

Have responsibilities in the process of traceability of requirements through to functional tests and defect lists

Manual and Automated Test execution and daily status reporting

Communicate and Track any quality risks, gaps or issues

Estimate the test effort by applying appropriate estimation techniques

Candidate must have prior experience and expertise in being able to create, publish and communicate test metrics/reports.

Be detail oriented, have excellent writing & verbal communication skills and possess client facing skills.

Technical Knowledge/Skills:

Experience with HP Quality Center/ALM and Team Foundation Server - Must

Experience with functional test automation tools: HP QTP and Selenium - Desired

Experience with agile methodologies - Must

Experience working in a Windows - Must

Experience testing web and client server based applications - Must

Experience in Oracle Database concepts and testing using SQL or other database platforms - Must

Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel Must