QA Tester Including Azure Devops Exp Pittsburgh PA

Job Title: QA Analyst

Location: Pittsburgh PA - Onsite

Contract Duration: Long Term

Experience Required: 3-5 years

Job Purpose

Responsible for ensuring the quality and functionality of software by testing and evaluating it to identify and resolve bugs, glitches, and user experience issues, ultimately delivering a high-quality product.

Key Competencies

• Minimum 3 to 5 years

• Experience leading and/or as major contributor on several significant team-oriented systems projects.

• Knowledge of SDLC (System or Software Development Life Cycle)

• Troubleshooting and diagnosing common software failure and faults, quickly

• Leading a variety of testing efforts

• Understanding of automated testing, execution, and tools

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Azure DevOps

• Working knowledge of PowerBI (Preferred)

• Detail oriented

• Good decision-making skills

• Good analytical and technical skills

• Customer service skills

• Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.

• Effectively communicate with peers and management of the organization (verbal & written)

• Effectively multi-task projects and priorities with minimal direction

• Effectively work as a project team member

Key Responsibilities:

• Work collaboratively with Business Analysts and Development staff to review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables

• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements and design test coverage plan

• Participate in preparing the test strategy and end to end test plans, including automated testing opportunities

• Conduct test strategy and test plan review sessions

• Execute and manage all activities in the plan to ensure that all the objectives are met and that the solution works as expected

• Ensure solutions are tested in terms of functionality, performance, reliability, stability and compatibility

• Monitor the test coverage and identify coverage gaps

• Identify and facilitate test data acquisition

• Monitor the test progress against the schedule

• Develop "go to green" plans, as needed

• Create and publish test execution reports

• Monitor and report defects

• Conduct test result walk thru sessions with the Business teams

• Ability to think abstract; ability to not conform to the norm

• Willingness to learn and expand skills with automated testing