This position is responsible for following and improving our best practices for IT application development quality assurance. This includes assisting with the definition and documentation of the applications quality assurance test plans, test scenarios, user acceptance criteria and test cases in order to deliver application development projects to a high degree of quality. The individual will also work closely with personnel including Business Analyst. Product Owners, Developers. and Application Development leads to ensure seamless transitions as they move through the SDLC.

• Participate in the entire project lifecycle which includes design/requirements review; test plan development; design/execution of smoke, functional, regression and integration test cases.
• Assists with the development of test strategies, creation of appropriate test harnesses and implementation of on-going metrics.
• Assists with developing/documenting test plans, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and User Acceptance test scenarios.
• Ensure high-quality software which meets requirements; make sure every feature has clearly defined acceptance criteria and is well tested using documented test scripts. Full test coverage against requirements is expected.
• Experience reviewing Acceptance Criteria and working with the QA lead and/or business to help refine the Acceptance Criteria
• Taking Acceptance Criteria and writing detailed test cases both for positive and negative scenarios and verifying we have full coverage of testing for each requirement or defect we have.
• Accurately communicate testing estimates, testing status, and continually work toward removing project roadblocks.
• Work with QA lead on maintaining the Manual/Automation KPI's
• Apply a prioritized approach to testing in order to find the most serious issues first.
• Create test scripts based on business requirements, workflows and use cases; execute and maintain the test scripts and document test results; modify the test scripts depending on requirements change.
• Assist with the development of User Acceptance test scripts, working closely with the business.
• Participate in various types of tests including Smoke, Functional, GUI, Regression, Performance, Security, Ad-hoc, System, End-to-End, Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing.
• Record, maintain, and archive test results.
• Analyze test results and defects to substantiate the quality of the application/system; analyze trends, severity, and characterization of defects; and track and provide reports of discovered defects.
• Participate in continuous improvement of testing process and procedures by analyzing reported bugs/issues and then assessing test coverage and project execution around these areas.
• Utilize strong troubleshooting/problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on as well as helping guidecollaborate with a team of analysts in the development and execution of test plans; and monitoring and reporting on test execution.
• Communicates application release status, including issue/defect metrics, code coverage metrics, critical path and testing status.
• Strong organizational skills, tracking multiple test executions simultaneously and can synthesize the results.
• Performs peer reviews on test cases and provides feedback
• Ensures that accepted methodologies and best practices are utilized to address QA/Test needs.
• Proactively identifies, manages, and makes recommendations to mitigate delivery risk.
• Assess current Testing efforts and provide input towards QA Automation where necessary
• Will help design the QA Automation and execute and troubleshoot the automation as needed.
• Participate with troubleshooting/performance tuning for .Net applications, working closely with the development teams.
• Identifies and documents end to end testing scenarios
• Participates in Knowledge transfer sessions with vendors and FTE's