Sr. Analyst (Quality Assurance) IT - iSpace Inc.

Title: Sr. QA Automation Analyst/Engineer
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: 13 months
Must be able to support Mountain Time Working Hours

The Software Quality Engineer will be supporting a team who designs, develops, and supports physician and healthcare patient related applications. The primary role of this QA would be to test the UI, Middle Tier ,and Database lanes of a well-established application along with testing the same on iPad device. Duties will include the following:

• Develop and establish quality assurance standards within the organization.
• Gather and analyze data in support of business cases, proposed projects, and systems requirements.
• Adhere project to testing lifecycle, for tracking defects and for fixes in software application development, information systems, and operations systems.
• This QA role will need to work very closely with Dev, QA and DevOps team.
• Create Test Plans and documenting them into Test Cases using the Test Rail tool

Breakdown of Tasks:

Test Strategy and Planning (50% of Focus )

• Review requirements and design documents to ensure adequate understanding to develop test plans, test scenarios and test cases
• Creates and executes test cases to ensure appropriate test coverage
• Mine for data, backend validation, and perform data quality analysis via SQL 4. Recommend improve
• Recommend improvements and/or corrections to developers for products assigned

Test Project Management and Coordination (40% of Focus)

• Estimate effort required to perform all QA activities assigned. Should be strong in Agile/SAFE Agile + QA SDLC
• Lead distributed teams at projects level & is well versed with Scrum ceremonies
• Lead multiple projects from QA perspective
• Lead defect triage meetings
• Active participation in project ceremonies and lead as necessary
• Provide recommendations and lead (as applicable) to streamline and improve process
• Coordinate and communicate with Project resources across the distributed teams to complete assigned projects

Operational Management (10% of Focus)

• Document status and final reports for QA activities
• Document and lead risks mitigation plans during project lifecycle
• Troubleshoots and resolves or recommends solutions to a diverse range of complex software testing problems. Uses judgment within defined policies and practices (includes software and technical documentation solutions)
• Assist with UAT as needed for data creation

Required Skills and Expertise:

• Minimum 8 years of relevant QA experience with multiple release cycles
• Minimum of 4 years' experience in back-end middleware/integration platforms.
• Minimum of 5 years of automation experience
• 3+ year of healthcare domain knowledge
• Advanced knowledge Agile, Waterfall and Iterative frameworks (SAFe knowledge is a plus)
• Experience with developing test automation framework
• Knowledge of architectural and design patterns, core design concepts, unit testing, configuration management best practices
• Experience in QA Automation is a must
• Must be skilled in working with Katalon
• Experience working with Selenium/Appium is a plus
• Hands on experience in using tools like Jira, Test Rail, Client-ALM, and Saucelabs.
• Advanced working knowledge of Java or VB script/C#
• Expertise in creating Test Plans and Test Cases.
• Skilled in using the Test Rail (or a similar tool)
• Must be well versed with testing Middle Tier APIs using Postman or Swagger tools.
• Hands-on DB testing experience with one or more DB platforms
• Strong UI and Functional testing knowledge.
• Should be skilled to understand working across environments and collaborate with Developers.
• Strong understanding of relational database design and familiarity with UNIX/Linux/AIX systems.
• Skilled in drafting, managing, and executing integration test plans of ESB technologies, service oriented architecture and related middleware technologies.
• Skilled in designing, formulating, and optimizing test strategy of data transfers across various system integration transfer protocols such as Siebel, Oracle, SQLServer, FTP, TCPIP, https, web services (Rest/Soap).
• Advanced knowledge with Test Management and Automation tools
• Experience and skills in mentoring co-workers
• Ability to lead multiple project
• Experience with leading distributed teams
• Demonstrated strengths in coordinating, attention-to-detail, follow-through, reasoning, critical thinking, and problem solving skills
• Possesses project management skills and/or substantial exposure to project-based work structures.
• Possess strong people and communication skills

Desired Skills and Expertise:

• Web app testing on iPad device preferred
• Hands on experience in testing mobile application across iOS and Android is a plus.
  • 3-5 years' experience in IT Software Mobile QA testing and/or development
  • Experience with mobile test automation
  • Demonstrated experience testing native mobile applications across platforms such as iOS, Android, Windows, etc. for full development lifecycle.
• Ability to perform any of the following UAT Coordination efforts is preferred, but not mandatory
  • Maintain a comprehensive UAT calendar
  • Coordinate with product & development teams to drive system demos, static reviews and wireframes as features are developed for each build
  • Demonstrate features and functionality to the business stakeholders
  • Set the expectation that the application may not yet be fully functional
  • Coordinate with the QA Leads and BA to schedule pre-runs of the UAT testing in the QA environment (and to verify the UAT environment as a final checkpoint)
  • Prepare and send weekly UAT Summary of current week's activity and the next 3-week plan
  • Coordinate the hardware readiness and printing needs/connectivity for UAT events
  • Coordinate with QA Leads and Client on different projects that have overlap
• Any of the following Application Integration experience is a plus:
  • Minimum of 4 years' experience in back-end middleware/integration platforms
  • Strong understanding of relational database design and familiarity with UNIX/Linux/AIX systems
  • Draft, manage, and execute integration test plans of ESB technologies, service oriented architecture and related middleware technologies
  • Design, formulate, and optimize test strategy of data transfers across various system integration transfer protocols such as Siebel, Oracle, SQLServer, FTP, TCPIP, https, web services (Rest/Soap)