QA Analyst

Senior-level IT Quality Assurance Analyst who ensures IT project quality through rigorous test planning and communication. Leads testing efforts whether it be manual or automated.

Job Responsibilities

• Define overall project-level test strategy

• Define test plans for all items to be tested

• Ties test cases back to user stories for full traceability

• Facilitates and tracks user acceptance testing

• Analyses project bugs and makes recommendations for future improvement

• Ability to present to all levels of the enterprise by way of demos/show-and-tells

• Ensures bugs are communicated clearly to development team and business partners as well as tracking the bugs to completion

• Writes weekly status reports to provide project manager and leadership with updates on overall test status

• Ability to communicate roadblocks to testing process and help remove those roadblocks or shift testing to an area not blocked

• Provides guidance for automation testing and performance testing team members

• Coaches less experienced testing team members on testing best practices.

• Works directly with team members from business sectors and the applications development team.

• Evaluates test plan and makes risk-based testing recommendations.

• Uses technical knowledge, creativity and company practices and priorities to obtain solutions to complex problems

• Uses judgment, creativity, and sound technical knowledge to obtain and recommend solutions.

• May interface with senior management to convey information.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of equivalent work experience as a senior QA Analyst or QA Lead

• Experience with trading systems is a must

• Knowledge of testing processes and best practices

• Knowledge of conceptual and logical systems

• Ability to apply general organizational knowledge of the business and systems processes in problem analysis

• Ability to coach and mentor other lower-level quality assurance analysts

• Proven leadership skills

• Ability to direct automation engineers to define an automation roadmap and direction

• Experience testing APIs, mobile applications, backend systems and integrations with vendor applications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical team members

• Familiarity and experience testing security-related items in accordance with the OWASP to 10 application security risks

• Experience with SQL

• Experience with Jira

• Extensive agile experience

• Mindset of continuous improvement