Quality Assurance Analyst

Full Job Description

Info-Matrix Corporation is currently seeking a skilled Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team! We are seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) resource to serve as a QA Analyst in projects and operational support, adhering to, and following, the QA Standards, QA Playbook, and other guidelines mandated by the Information Technology Department (IT).

Duties and Responsibilities

Design and manage the testing efforts with multiple projects, which will contribute to the foundation of evolving QA/QC practices.

Actively assist or lead efforts in all testing phases of the project by shaping the testing processes and strategies for each test phase.

Review, provide input, and ensure accuracy with detailed project documentation including RACI, test plan, traceability matrix, and test schedule.

Be an advocate of Quality Assurance, Continuous Improvement and industry recognized Best Practices.

Build, implement, and direct quality assurance principles and maintain the quality of delivery.

Ensure that the project team adheres to the principles, guidelines, and PTC QA/QC processes.

Define processes for test plan reviews and finalize with project team.

Monitor and lead all the QA activities, test execution, bug tracking including root cause analysis, test metrics, and identifying areas of improvement.

Monitor testing process and testing tool documentation to ensure information is up to date.

Attend requirements gathering and requirements review meetings to gain an understanding of the product to be tested.

Actively participate in business requirement and functional specification reviews by identifying and resolving any inconsistencies or insufficiencies related to testing.

Manage all activities in the test plan to ensure that all the objectives are met, and that the solution works as expected.

Execute all aspects of quality assurance and testing to ensure the highest possible quality in software and other IT systems releases into the production environment.

Communicates clearly and work with project team to provide feedback on system, integration, regression, and UAT testing items, including security and data needs.

Ensure procedures are followed with a high degree of quality in creating user stories, tasks, test cases, and bugs.

Actively track quality assurance metrics, by preparing queries and reports using ADO functionality.

Provide feedback for production deployment review relating to production deployments readiness.

Complete project related tasks consistent with client and PMO guidelines.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five (5) years of expertise as a Functional/Project Test Lead on projects of various size and subject matter utilizing Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO). Strong experience in defining requirements and project management. The ideal candidate would have the following skillsets as a test lead:

Agile project management

Azure DevOps (Test Plans/Boards) Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Excellent listening, presentation, and interpersonal skills.

Ability to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language.

Able to prioritize and execute tasks across multiple projects.

Keen attention to detail and well organized.

Ability to work independently, in a team-oriented or collaborative environment is essential.

Ability to learn quickly and work in a fast-paced environment.

Strong ability to estimate, prioritize, plan, and coordinate testing activities.

Additional beneficial skills include experience with the following:

Cloud-based software solutions

Risk Based Test Management

Test Automation

ServiceNow

SAP Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)

Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

MS Teams

MS SharePoint

MS Dynamics

OnBase

SmartDocs

ArcGIS