QA Analyst

IPS Technology Services adds value to customers’ businesses by cultivating partnership and delivering quality services to meet or exceed customer expectations. Our FOCUS is on understanding customer requirements, teamwork, and communication. Our GOAL is a repeat customer. Title: QA Analyst Location : REMOTE Long Term contract JOB DESCRIPTION Responsible for the planning, integration, test casing, scripting and execution of all testing to ensure proper coverage; Schedules and leads test deliverables review sessions as necessary; Work on multiple projects/systems as a project team member and are considered to be a subject matter expert for a single project/system. These projects are of moderate to high complexity within one or more development environments; Collaborate with the BSA and Development teams in the analysis and review of business objectives and requirements to ensure requirements are testable; Actively participate in the review of architectural and technical design specifications; Develop, document and maintain the test data, data validation, end to end testing flows.; Conducts testing using HNB manual and/or automated test processes and reports results; May run database queries in order to supply data validation within test scripts; Updates test cases based upon approved change requests; Works with BSAs and Development teams on defect analysis and triage; Assigns defect severity, and manages defects throughout the project; Works with colleagues and project managers to meet established target dates and completion of activities/deliverables under changing conditions; Creates test status reports per project guidelines; Creates test results and test summary deliverables to ensure production implementation readiness; Creates and facilitates review of the Test Strategy with the project team; Identifies any potential quality issues per defined processes and escalates potential quality issues immediately to management; Collects testing sign-off from all testing participants, including cross-impacted application teams; Ensures all aspects of testing, such as manual execution, regression, automation and performance testing, is completed; Collaborates with Project Test Lead on estimating the test efforts; Collaborates with the project team to support UAT efforts as needed; Maintains the regression test bed to meet changing requirements; Participates in off-hour production releases as needed; Supports the project’s warranty period as needed; Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgement and problem solving; Provides mentorship to junior team members as needed; Understands and follows the project lifecycle methodology consistently. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.