QA Analyst - SSP
Chelsea, MA
About the Job
Title: QA Analyst
Location: Chelsea, MA
Duration: 9 months, extendable
Major Responsibilities:
Experience Required:
Skills Needed:
Location: Chelsea, MA
Duration: 9 months, extendable
Major Responsibilities:
- Review Use Cases , Business Scenarios and Technical and Design Specifications to create Test Cases
- Creation of detailed Test Scripts and procedures to manually validate feature functionality and system integration
- Analyze requirement and have ability to provide test approach, impact and test estimates
- Define the appropriate Test Cases and Test Scripts to ensure test coverage based on construction iteration plan
- 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
- Gather, create and manage test data needed for test execution
- 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 Jazz tool
- Interact with the client and other stakeholders on the project
Experience Required:
- Strong analytical, communication and documentation skills
- Experience in iterative software development life cycle methodologies
- Exposure to testing architectural significant scenarios
- Extensive test case creation and test execution experience using tools such as Rational Quality Manager
- Experience with complex order of operations related to batch schedule processing
- 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
- Experience with document scanning, storage and retrieval solutions
- Experience validating Reports generated from a data warehouse using tools such as Cognos
- Ability to articulate and document defects and/or issues in a clear and detailed manner
- Experience with creating daily validation progress reports
- Experience with testing product or software version upgrade
- Experience with automation testing including the designing, developing and executing automated test scripts
Skills Needed:
- Be a quick learner
- Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with fellow testers, developers, and QA management.
- Demonstrated flexibility to meet timelines generally associated with technical test schedules ( including off hours)
- Organizational skills needed to maintain, archive and retrieve test assets efficiently
- Highly analytical, needs to independently analyze test results and be confident with recommendations
- Ability to multitask during an iterative system development lifecycle
- Exposure to using IBM Jazz tools or Rational Req Pro is preferable
Source : SSP
