IT Quality Assurance Analyst

Our client is a signature company of the Pacific Northwest seeking an experienced IT QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST for an excellent contract opportunity. This candidate will establish and sustain quality assurance processes, practices, methods, tools and controls in support of application and system requirement, development and test activities throughout the software development and sustainment life cycles.

SUMMARY OF KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Supervises and performs complex system and problem analysis associated with applications development and test management activities encompassing project, release, and sustainment efforts.
- Constructs and reviews test plans, scenarios, cases and scripts, ensuring that requirement coverage is adequate and business requirements, functional specifications and designs are linked to test artifacts.
- Provides supervision and guidance to other quality assurance analysts, developers, and testers in the development and implementation of quality assurance processes, methods, and tools.
- Provides status and makes recommendations on meeting test criteria and production rollout readiness.
- Works with project and business resources to ensure functional and technical specifications and designs fulfil the requirements quality criteria.
- Participates in requirements and design review.
- Maps business requirements, functional and technical specifications to test scenarios, cases, and scripts.
- Accurately monitors and communicates test execution results.
- Creates and follows current processes, standards and practices to develop, test and implement quality assurance operational procedures for use by applicable requirements, development, test, and quality assurance teams.
- Provides assessment information on business and functional impacts.
- Facilitates architecting, designing, and implementing new and existing testing tools and methods.
- Organizes and manages data environment and configuration requirements with business, functional and technical analysts, as well as development and test teams.

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

- Strong test methodology experience: 6+ years
- Strong communication skills and attention to detail - looking for a tenacious Tester who is passionate about the details
- Strong analytical skills - ability to dig into ambiguity and turn chaos into structured, well documented testing
- Expertise in SQL (especially MS SQL enterprise manager) and ability to easily query complex databases and understand data models
- Experience testing on POS peripherals preferred, especially PED device (credit card reader)
- Expertise at Back End validations and reviewing code as needed
- Quality Center experience preferred
- Ability to work well under pressure and during times of extreme ambiguity
- Work experience in software requirements, development or testing with creating and executing quality assurance test plans, scenarios, cases, checklists and scripts: 5 years
- Experience in software requirements, development, and testing activities with multiple, simultaneous quality assurance efforts, and a track record as a contributor with providing quality assurance support in an analyst capacity, including tools development and usage: 5 years
- Demonstrated collaboration on project teams and interaction with project managers, business and functional analysts, developers and the business community directly related to quality assurance responsibilities and roles: 5 years
- Experience with programming languages and script development: 5 years
- Demonstrated test management processes and technical skills, including an understanding of manual and automated test execution and performance related tools: 5 years
- Demonstrated knowledge using version control and defect tracking methods, including an understanding of associated tools: 5 years
- Knowledge of project management skills, including an understanding of project management processes and related tools: 5 years
- Knowledge of application software development life cycle concepts
- Organization and planning skills
- Excellent facilitation and presentation skills
- Ability to manage numerous concurrent activities and tasks under time constraints
- Ability to and instruct and educate others on developing applicable test plans, scenarios, cases, and scripts
- Team player who exhibits effective interpersonal skills with a collaborative style
- Demonstrated abilities with improving individual job skills through training, self-research and self-study

This contract position is expected to be 11 months in duration.