Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Company: Apex Systems
Location: Seattle
Posted on: February 24, 2021

Job Description:

Sr. QA Analyst9-Month Contract - Potential for extensionLocation: REMOTE (must sit in greater Seattle area) Establishing, sustaining, driving, and monitoring quality assurance processes, practices, and controls in support of application and system requirement, development and test activities throughout the software development and sustainment lifecycles. Provides leadership and consulting on quality assurance methodology. Leads quality improvements to requirement, development and test procedures and responsible for the development and implementation of quality assurance processes and tools. Mentors and directs other quality assurance analysts. 5 years Story Behind the Need - Business Group & Key Projects

• This CW will be reporting directly to the manager of application development for the ST Portfolio Analytics team. They'll ultimately roll up to support the Partner Engineering organization for our client. They'll sit on a mixed team of partner and non-partners.
• The team is in charge of Microsoft Reporting online and is working to bridge a gap between data engineering and reporting. Typical Day in the Role
  • Ensure updates to required documents are completed, reviewed and signed off, when required.
  • Ability to create test cases outside the happy path, must be able to come up with different testing strategies for training docs, reports, etc.
  • Ability to create test cases based on business questions
  • If the CW is able to automate some of the existing functional testing, that would be a huge plus Compelling Story & Candidate Value Proposition
    • This person will assist in the delivery of our two Microsoft Project Online-related projects this year.
    • The current QA is able to process, so we'll need this CW to focus more or assessment and providing status and strategy. Candidate Requirements
      • The other project is more continuous but also more fluid
      • There may be more opportunities for additional quality assurance analyst sr -ITs and extension
      • No real disqualifiers as long as the base skillsets are met.
      • Must be experienced in functional testing
      • Must be self-driven
      • Candidates must be comfortable with ambiguity
      • Candidates must be organized and have great attention to detail Top 3 must-have hard skills
        • Sharepoint (must have some sort of experience with Sharepoint to provide an adequate foundation)
        • CW must able to put together test plans/ strategies
        • They should also have some experience with the Agile software development methodology

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