System Testing Analyst - West Columbia, United States - Spectraforce Technologies

Description

Title:
Systems Testing Analyst


Location:
Columbia, SC (Partially onsite - Tues, Wed, Thurs and Mon/Fri as needed)

Duration: 12 months, likely extensions

C2 clearance eligibility is required

Must Have :
MS Word, MS Excel, Quality Center (ALM) or Other Defect Tracking Software. Skill in whitebox testing, integration testing, static testing.


Nice to have:
Agile methodology, Waterfall Methodology, Health Insurance Background

Day to Day:

Perform initial triage to ensure defects are clearly described and critical information is provided, resolve if possible else assign to the appropriate person.

Monitor logs so updates are accurate, detailed, timely and ECDs are current. Retest defects in an effective and timely manner.
Identify trends and conditions where invalid defects are affecting testing efficiency. Identify root cause for such trends and participate in determining long-term solutions to reduce the number of invalid defects.

Develop and execute test matrices within established timeframes ensuring traceability to requirements, and ensure that testing is efficient, effective, and repeatable as well as maintaining proper documentation.

Increased use of synthetic data for EQE testing is encouraged.
Ensure end-to-end business validation, as required, is included. Update test matrix, as required, for change controls and other discovery throughout the work effort. Update testing documentation based on discovery during testing. Proactively escalate concerns and alerts, including clarification of the impact to the completion of testing.
Test Design and executing Test Matrices and subsequent defect triage and resolution. Run daily/Weekly defect meetings. Report on testing stats to Management.
Ensure effective communications related to testing for work efforts. All communications are clear, concise, and appropriate for the levels of the organization involved. Communications on follow-ups are timely and effective. Testing status reports are clear, concise, and timely, including explanations of testing/quality issues, concerns, and risks. Share test matrices and testing/work-effort knowledge with customers and appropriate personnel.
The manager is not looking for someone with Coding experience and / or Quality Assurance Analysts without testing experience


Soft Skills:
Ensure effective communications related to testing for work efforts. All communications are clear, concise, and appropriate for the levels of the organization involved. Communications on follow-ups are timely and effective. Testing status reports are clear, concise, and timely, including explanations of testing/quality issues, concerns, and risks. Share test matrices and testing/work-effort knowledge with customers and appropriate personnel.

Promote quality to ensure knowledge of work efforts is shared and that test planning/testing tasks are successful. Assist and/or back up fellow team members as needed. Participate in rotational assignments. Participate in process improvements, including identifying recommendations. Recurring manual processes should be identified and documented as candidates for automation (e.g., test region validation).

Make full use of tools (e.g., test scripts, use of central test case repository), processes and techniques to ensure testing is as comprehensive and efficient as possible.

About the team:

Team of 8 work on up to 50 efforts at any given time in support of client membership work efforts and processes.

Highly functioning team with a strong and experienced Team Leader who works very closely with the Team to ensure successful implement of our assigned work efforts.

Our culture is very team centric.


Duties:
Provide service for multiple clients, including onsite service where needed. Make recommendations to clients on how to improve testing activities. Track quality assurance metrics.

*45% Participate in the design phase of projects to ensure that new or modified functions are developed using correct testing methodology.

Arrange major activities between the client and IS staff to ensure maximum gain from technical resources.

*45% Complete supportive administrative and lead activities such as attending sessions with customers, planning and disbursing projects to team members, completing reports and developing processes.

*10% Perform testing duties which may involve reviewing test data, creating test cases, executing testing, and monitoring/documenting results. Mentor and provide guidance to testing staff


Required Education:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.

or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other job related degree.

Required Work Experience:

5 years of IT experience to include experience developing test plans and/or matrices.
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