QA Analyst

QA Analyst
Locations (Hybrid): CT, STL, Philadelphia, Morris Plains, NJ, Plano, Austin, Nashville, Tampa

Duties:
Provides counsel and advice to top management on significant Q&A matters, often requiring coordination between organizations. Provides consultation at the highest technical level to project teams and client areas assisting with the successful development and implementation of effective computer systems applications across multiple computing environments (e.g., host based, distributed systems, client server). Consults with client and IT management and staff throughout the project life cycle, to assist and support the design, development and implementation of effective systems. Drafts, revises and approves test plans and scripts to ensure alignment with standards and IT strategy. Creates test data files with valid and invalid records to thoroughly test program logic and verify system flow. Collaborates with users to plan user acceptance testing, alpha and beta testing. Ensures that system tests are successfully completed and documented and all problems are resolved. Analyzes, designs new or modified Quality Assurance (QA) procedures and standards and assists in the development and implementation of QA metrics for assessing the quality of delivered application software. Participates in the review of new QA software and consults with IT staff and client areas in resolving questions during the testing process. Works with client and IT management and staff to establish and maintain a consistent test methodology. Focuses on providing thought leadership and technical expertise across multiple disciplines. Recognized internally as "the go-to person” for the most complex Quality Assurance & Testing assignments.
Understands various back-end and front-end architecture components required to formulate test strategies
· Works with both onsite (Scrum Master, Product, QA and Developers) and offshore QA team members in properly defining testable scenarios based on requirements/acceptance criteria
· Helps define test data criteria and partners with Data team to obtain the data
· Participates in sprint-level, integration and regression test planning and execution
o Designs and develops scripts to run automated tests to ensure consistency, repeatability and accelerates delivery
o Determines priorities for test scenarios and creates effective execution plans
o Performs manual and exploratory testing
· Performs defect reporting and triaging
· Analyzes failure patterns and determine corrective actions to eliminate the errors completely
· Adheres to the organization's Quality Engineering best practices while helping to drive changes to our testing practices where necessary

Skills:
API/Web/Mobile Automation