Quality Assurance Analyst
Quality Assurance Analyst
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Job Description
Title: Quality Assurance Analyst
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Philadelphia PA (800 W. Montgomery Ave Philadelphia PA 19122)
Note: This is a Hybrid Role.
Key Responsibilities:
Test Planning & Strategy
- Collaborate with stakeholders product owners PMs SMEs and software developers to review analyze and refine software requirements acceptance criteria and testability considerations.
- Design develop and implement comprehensive test strategies test plans test cases and test scripts for software applications of different complexity levels.
- Define and drive riskbased testing approaches ensuring thorough and adequate test coverage and prioritization based on business impact and criticality.
- Assist the business community with preparing and conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) by providing guidance on testing scenarios test execution and test documentation.
Test Execution
- Execute test cases based on predefined test plans and scripts.
- Validate functionality against business functional and nonfunctional requirements.
- Perform exploratory testing to uncover defects not covered by scripted test cases.
- Conduct UI API and database validation tests to verify data integrity and backend processes.
- Log execution results and provide feedback on test coverage and effectiveness.
- Prepare and maintain test data.
- Collaborate with developers and SMEs to clarify reported issues.
- Optimize and prioritize test execution based on risk analysis and business impact.
- Identify and address gaps in test coverage and recommend additional scenarios for testing.
- Conduct negative and boundary testing to evaluate system robustness.
- Perform crossbrowser crossdevice and crossplatform compatibility testing to ensure consistent application behavior.
- Analyze system logs error messages and API responses for root cause analysis.
- Validate data consistency across integrated systems.
- Work closely with automation engineers to identify manual tests for automation.
- Identify potential highrisk areas and ensure they receive appropriate test coverage.
- Communicate potential risks and blockers to stakeholders in a timely manner.
- Conduct riskbased testing by prioritizing critical test cases.
- Perform impact analysis when changes occur determining the scope of required regression testing.
- Assist in risk mitigation planning with product owners and developers.
- Identify dependencies and ensure proper integration testing is conducted.
- Incorporate basic security QA validation checks as part of functional and nonfunctional testing to identify vulnerabilities and common security issues in applications under test.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (ISTQB ISO 25010 IEEE 829) accessibility requirements (WCAG) and data privacy regulations (GDPR CCPA HIPAA when applicable).
Defect Management & Reporting
- Identify document and manage defects throughout the defect lifecycle including root cause analysis and verification of fixes utilizing defect management tool (e.g. ALM QC JIRA etc.)
- Provide clear defect descriptions steps to reproduce screenshots and logs for debugging.
- Retest fixed defects and perform regression testing.
- Conduct root cause analysis for highimpact defects collaborating with developers and architects.
- Drive defect triage meetings helping prioritize and categorize issues based on risk.
- Identify recurring defects and recommend longterm fixes to prevent recurrence.
- Track and analyze defect trends to improve development and testing processes.
- Assess the impact of defects on business functionality and user experience.
- Collaborate with developers to ensure early defect detection and prevention reducing defect leakage into production.
- Generate test execution reports quality metrics and risk assessments providing insights into software quality stability and readiness.
Test Automation (advanced level)
- Design develop and optimize automated test frameworks for UI API and backend testing using industrystandard tools (e.g. Quick Test Professional/UFT Selenium Cypress Playwright TestNG JUnit PyTest).
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps GitLab CI/CD) for continuous validation.
- Develop and execute API automation tests using tools such as REST Assured Postman or Karate ensuring robust backend testing.
- Perform crossplatform and crossbrowser automation testing ensuring consistent functionality across different environments.
- Maintain and optimize automation test suits to improve execution reliability and maintainability.
- Conduct performance/load testing using tools such as Load Runner/Performance Center JMeter or Gatling analyzing application scalability responsiveness and reliability under different conditions.
Education & Certifications:
- A bachelor s degree in computer science Information Technology Software Engineering or a related field.
- OR a combination of education relevant QA certifications (ISTQB CSTE CSQA or equivalent) and practical work experience.
Experience & Skills:
- 5 years of handson experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance.
- Strong understanding of SDLC and QA methodologies.
- Proficiency in test automation tools and scripting languages (advanced level).
- Experience with test management tools (Quality Center JIRA TestRail Zephyr) and defect tracking processes.
- Experience with SQL and database querying tools is required for extracting and preparing test data to support test case execution and validation.
- Strong analytical problemsolving and communication skills.
"If you are: bright motivated skilled a differencemaker able to get things done work with minimum direction enthusiastic a thinker able to juggle and multitask communicate effectively and lead then we would like to hear from you. We need exceptionally capable people for this role for our client so get back to us and tell us why you think you are a fit."
About Us:
5+ years of hands-on experience in Software Testing and Quality Assurance. Strong understanding of SDLC and QA methodologies. Proficiency in test automation tools and scripting languages (advanced level). Experience with test management tools (Quality Center, JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr) and defect tracking processes. Experience with SQL and database querying tools is required for extracting and preparing test data to support test case execution and validation. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
Education
A bachelor s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field. OR a combination of education, relevant QA certifications (ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA, or equivalent), and practical work experience.
Employment Type
Full Time
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