Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer

Yoh has a contract opportunity for a QUALITY ASSURANCE (QA) ENGINEER to join our client Located in Overland Park, KS

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Establishes and documents a tailored strategy quality plan in collaboration with the project manager, for the performance of quality assurance activities for assigned project or task.
- Develops and maintains quality assurance documentation for projects and tasks to include quality metrics.
- Ensures documentation complies with software development standards, policies and procedures or best practices.
- Conducts assessments and evaluations through analysis and interpretation of objective and subjective evidence to verify compliance to standards and applicable quality plans. Assists with determination of levels of process and product quality. Develops written reports of findings; escalates unresolved issues to appropriate management levels.
- Evaluates work products to assess quality and report's findings. Researches alternative solutions to problems, determines proper approaches, and makes verbal and/or written recommendations to appropriate parties and implements solutions. Implements recommendations as approved.
- Gathers uses and analyzes defect metrics data. Presents analysis findings to the appropriate levels of management verbally and through the preparation of periodic written reports.
- Participates in and identifies special projects, external audits and process improvements in support of quality assurance initiatives.
- Assists management in the definition and maintenance of an effective and efficient quality program, including the development and presentation of associated training and familiarization to affected staff. Identifies and makes recommendations for updates to standard practices and procedures.
- Understands logical and physical database model diagrams and structures.
- Writes intermediate to advanced SQL to update and manage relevant database information.
- Helps perform build validation.
- Writes advanced test conditions and scripts. Ensures documentation complies with software development standards, policies and procedures or best practices.
- Prepares estimates for work based upon requirements analysis.
- Performs project test planning, status reporting, scheduling and communications.
- Meets established individual goals and performance expectations.
- Provides leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel.
- Primary point of contact for customers to report problems with use of software/hardware, make inquiries and obtain guidance.
- Monitoring defect tracking tickets and confirming validity of defects.
- Analyzing inquiries, providing a response and taking appropriate action to resolve.
- Ensuring escalation to management for issues that are severe.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Bachelor's degree in business, mathematics, engineering, management information systems, computer science, or related field preferred.
- Six (6) or more years of quality assurance, engineering or management information systems experience.
- Experience working with quality metrics and software industry metric data collection and analysis techniques.
- Experience working with quality assurance principles and practices and software development methodologies such as Catalyst.
- Experience working with standard software development methodology assessments, such as SEI/CMM or ISO 9000.
- Experience working with project management methodology.
- Experience working with software test tools.
- Experience with source/document control programs.

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Recruiter: Jimmy Vo

Yoh is a professional staffing provider with over 70 years of experience in the short- and long-term staffing services industry; visit our website to learn both about our company and about our leading HR Solutions.

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