Position: Experienced QA Analyst

Location: Chelsea, MA

Major Responsibilities:

• Creation of specific automated test scripts to validate functionality using Selenium framework
• Maintain and update exiting automated test assets
• Gather, create, and manage test data needed for test execution
• Defining the appropriate Test Cases and Test Scripts to ensure test coverage
• Analyze requirements and have the ability to provide test approach, identify test impact, and test estimates
• Test execution activities including Smoke Test, End to End Test, and Regression testing
• Reporting daily test activity progress for roll up into test team progress summary reports
• Assure test asset traceability to requirements and other applicable design artifacts
• Defect reporting, defect triage and follow through to resolution
• Maintain and archive test assets within the IBM Jazz tool and JIRA
• Interact with the client and other stakeholders on the project
• Ability to work in Agile environment

Experience Required:

• Strong analytical, communication and documentation skills
• Testing Automation experience is required
• Previous experience with set up of automated test framework, Selenium is required
• Experience in iterative software development life cycle methodologies
• Exposure to API validation is preferred
• Exposure to JIRA tool is required
• Experience with Performance scripting and testing
• Experience with web-based application and browser testing
• Extensive SQL Query Skills for database validations using tools such as TOAD
• Experience with interface validation using XML Messages
• Ability to articulate and document defects and/or issues in a clear and detailed manner
• Experience with creating daily validation progress reports
• Extensive experience with JAVA front end and ORACLE back-end validation

Skills Needed:

• Ability to easily adopt to new tools and processes
• More than moderate experience working with automated test tools
• Experience with performance testing and results documentation
• Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with fellow testers, developers, and management
• Demonstrated flexibility to meet timelines generally associated with multiple active sprints
• Ability to multitask during an iterative system development lifecycle
• Organizational skills needed to maintain, archive, and retrieve test assets efficiently
• Highly analytical, needs to independently analyze test results and be confident with recommendations
• Programing skills needed to write test scripts
• Experience with Child Support Enforcement is preferred