IT Senior Quality Analyst

Position Summary

With limited supervision, using various tools and techniques of the Quality Analyst (QA) discipline, completes moderate to high complexity test activities following QA standards and procedures.

Responsible for manual and automated testing of systems and applications software. Creates test strategies and plans. Develops and executes test scripts. Creates and conditions test data. Defect management and resolution.

What You'll Do:

This opportunity is for a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst who will spearhead the quality and test strategy of an Information Technology (IT) department. This person will provide expert insights to our Agile Product teams, discovery team, and production support team. The Senior QA analyst will assist in the enhancement of our defect and test case management processes, as well as our risk identification and mitigation efforts. This role will be pivotal in driving innovative solutions, maintaining operational excellence, and enhancing the quality metrics of our IT lifecycle.

Preferred Experience & Skills:

- Experience writing and reviewing test strategies and plans

- Advanced experience writing and reviewing test cases

- Advanced experience reviewing regression test suites

- Knowledge of Jira application and Agile processes

What Makes You Stand Out:

- Ability to write and review automation test scripts for completeness and errors

- Some knowledge of Life Insurance or Insurance practices

- Proficiency in Selenium

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serves as the project team lead; creates quality assurance deliverables, activities, tools and processes (test strategy, test plans, test scripts, defect documentation, management and resolution, etc) for moderate to high complexity efforts.
• Creates, updates, executes & troubleshoots manual and automated test scripts. Basic understanding of automation framework development.
• Analyzes and identifies repeatable test patterns or regression test suites to reduce time to market and costs associated with testing.
• Understands, creates and maintains the automation suite for the project team by ensuring tests adhere to the standards for automation framework; create, update and maintain automated test scripts; drive compliance and adoption of test automation.
• Reviews less experienced quality analyst deliverables. 

The first four duties listed are the functions identified as essential to the job. Essential functions are those job duties that must be performed in order for the job to be accomplished. 

This position description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the incumbent. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instruction and to perform any other duties as requested by their supervisor, or as become evident.

Capabilities

Qualifications

Minimum Educational and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, Business or related field, plus five years related experience, or;
• Associate degree in a technical field, plus seven years related experience, or;
• High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience

Additional Experience

• Skills: User Acceptance Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, Risk Based Testing, Accountability, Agile Methodology, Auditing, Test Automation, Change Management, Decision Making, Detail Oriented, Interpersonal Communications, Management Information Systems, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Management, Quality Management Systems, Risk Management, Test Data Management, Root Cause Analysis, Scenario Testing, SQL (Programming Language), Teamwork, Test Planning, Verbal Communication Skills, Writing, JIRA, Troubleshooting (Problem Solving), Complex Problem Solving, Influencing skills, Software Development Lifecycle, Waterfall Methodology.
   

Physical Requirements