[Hiring] Quality Assurance Test Analyst II @AAA Life Insurance Company

Role Description

The Quality Assurance Test Analyst is part of our growing cross-functional Agile development team, developing and supporting transactional websites which fully integrate with complex back-office legacy applications that drive core business processes.

• Be part of a cross-functional team of Agile testers, developers, and business users.
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of the software development process and all aspects of Agile Quality Assurance.
• Deliver effective & comprehensive testing to ensure the highest quality software within the timeframe of Agile sprints.
• Familiar with automation frameworks and routinely edit and execute automated test scripts using automated testing tools.
• Manage defect tracking and defect maintenance and perform defect root cause analysis.
• Analyze and review data, test results and documents for consistency and accuracy.
• Assist QA team members with ensuring all test resources are utilized effectively and support other QA team members on testing activities and processes.
• Ensure that the appropriate level of testing has been identified through a Risk Based Testing approach for all test initiatives.
• Proactively work with all roles on the project team to provide support as needed to ensure overall quality and success of initiatives.
• Independently and proactively maintain expertise in a broad range of testing methodologies and strategies.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Design tests that clearly convey the business rules and code they are checking (i.e., Story-level tests or Acceptance Tests), so that both business users and developers can understand their intentions.
• Appropriate to each project, develop and execute test strategy, test plans, test cases, acceptance testing and test scripts.
• Work with Business partners on UAT. Appropriate to each project, create UAT plan and collaborate with Business partners.
• Contribute to the implementation and continual improvement of QA standards, processes and procedures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5-8 years of experience in system-level QA Testing.
• 5 years of experience in an Agile environment.
• Working knowledge of Web application testing and/or Web service testing.
• Familiar with all stages of the SDLC as well as Software Quality Assurance testing including System, Integration, Regression, Performance and User Acceptance Testing.
• An understanding of the concepts of Test Driven Development (TDD) and how it applies to Agile testing.
• Deep level of knowledge in creating test strategy and test case documents.
• Ability to write and understand basic SQL queries to perform data verification and set up test data.
• Experience with testing tools such as QA Symphony qTEST, Borland Micro Focus Silk Central, HP Quality Center, Test Director, or similar.
• Experience using test automation frameworks i.e. Cucumber, FitNesse, TestNG, or Selenium.
• Experience with API tools like SOAPUI, Postman, or similar.
• Experience with Defect Management tools such as Jira or Bugzilla.