Test Analyst

Job Title: Test Analyst

General Responsibilities:

- Ensure requirements are clear, trace back to business requirements, can be tested, and are maintained in Quality Center
- Interact with business analysts, developers, end users across multiple workstreams to review requirements and dependencies to prepare test cases and test execution.
- Monitor and comply with standards and Best Practices for Software QA.
- Implement improvements in test methods and strategies.
- Develop test plans and strategies and provides testing expertise to the testing group.

o Ability to discuss and/or train testers on general testing techniques.
o Create test plans and test cases which map back to business requirements
o Create test cases which cover positive and negative tests as well as multiple scenarios for functional tests.
- Gathers metrics in the form of defect counts, test pass rates, and other meaningful data.

o Defects found and close rates by week, normalized against level of effort
o Number of tests planned, run, passed by week
o Schedule estimates vs. actuals
o Major and minor requirements changes
- Support the project manager in defining tasks, efforts, and durations for assigned projects.
- Assist with test execution where needed.
- Identify opportunities for test automation and work with QTP resource to implement automation opportunities.

Required skills:

- 5+ years experience with mid-size project testing efforts
- 3+ years experience gathering requirements for automation and performance testing
- Proven experience testing vendor delivered solutions
- Experience translating requirements into application test cases
- Utilization of one or more test automation tools
- Solid knowledge of current Testing/QA methodologies, best practices, and toolsets.
- Experience with following requirements through a requirements traceability Matrix (RTM)
- Ability to analyze information and break down complex problems
- Ability to perform independent research, utilizing team member input as necessary
- Energetic self-starter, with desire to work in a dynamic fast-paced environment.
- Ability to confirm objectives and drive them according to plan with a minimum oversight
- Ability to multi-task and adjust priorities when situation requires
- Excellent verbal and written communication