DIRECT CLIENT // QA Analyst

[Sunny Roy]

Very urgent DIRECT CLIENT Opening.  Please send the resumes at Su...@cncconsulting.com 

Job Title: QA Analyst

Location: Lansing, MI

Duration: 12 Months

In person interview

Job Description: Seeking a Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst to support the continual development and maintenance of interactive, secure, authenticated web applications designed by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE), Division of Accountability Services (DAS). 

This is a leadership position, responsible for maintaining a consistent, effective, and efficient QA process to be followed by all QA team members on a weekly basis. Documentation of the QA process is expected. Iterative refinement of the QA process is the responsibility of the Senior QA Analyst; the candidate should be able to identify obstructions to the efficiency and effectiveness of the QA process and work to remove those obstructions as well as identify and communicate process improvement recommendations. The Senior QA Analyst will work closely with the business clients to understand requirements for new development as well as updates to current system functionality and bug fixes. During requirements gathering, this person should be able to recommend improvements to the business client that will help maintain system standards or standard web application design practices. Using the requirements, the Senior QA Analyst will lead the QA team in the creation of acceptance criteria and test plans. Acceptance criteria will often include verifying data displayed or created through the application; test plans will often require the QA team to find and use specific scenario data. It is imperative that the Senior QA Analyst understand normalized database structure and can create complex SQL select statements to assist the QA team in finding, understanding, and verifying data. The Senior QA Analyst must be able to train the QA team in writing SQL select statements, answer SQL questions during testing, and review the validity of SQL tests performed by the QA team. At times, the Senior QA Analyst will need to approach business clients to create test data to complete test plans. Other times, the Senior QA Analyst will need to work with the business client to understand how to create specific data scenarios within the system QA environment and then document and share that knowledge with the rest of the QA team. The Senior QA Analyst is also expected to participate in user acceptance testing (UAT) and document test results along with the rest of the QA team. The Senior QA Analyst must have experience with performance testing and be mindful of performance issues that may arise during UAT testing. When the QA team is finished testing a set of newly developed items, the Senior QA Analyst will be responsible to review the work of the QA team and give final sign-off for development to move to Production environment. The ability to identify critical issues and clearly communicate the status of QA items is essential to the success of the Senior QA Analyst. The candidate must be able to collaborate with developers, business analysts, and business clients to determine if issues identified during the QA process are valid and within the scope of the development request or should be addressed in a separate request. The Senior QA Analyst will be responsible for the final validation of development work in the Production environment and will be the key point-person for testing critical fixes for Production issues.

Microsoft SQL Server / T-SQL direct hands-on experience with ad hoc query programs

Required5Years

Data analysis, data verification, and problem-solving abilities

Required5Years

Ability to communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management

Required5Years

Strong knowledge of system testing best practices and methodologies

Required5Years

Proficiency with all MS Office and Visio applications

Required5Years

Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle and related methodologies (e.g. CMMI, Agile, or other industry standard)

Required5Years

Direct experience in overseeing the design, development, and implementation of quality assurance standards for software testing

Required7Years

Automated testing experience with Selenium, Cucumber or other tools

Desired2Years

Thanks,

Sunny Roy
Su...@cncconsulting.com

[Sunny Roy]

Very urgent DIRECT CLIENT Opening.  Please send the resumes at Su...@cncconsulting.com 

Job Title: QA Analyst 

Location: Columbus, OH

Duration: 3 months

In person interview

Job Description:

The Quality Assurance Analyst position is for a professional with a strong background in application testing using automation. The successful candidate will be expected to collaborate on cross functional teams to ensure delivery of a high-quality solution. The candidate will work with the team to understand Avatar and define overall test strategies and test plans for the agency. The candidate will also execute test cases manually and via automation tools. The candidate will also interact with others in the organization to proactively determine upstream and downstream impacts of software releases prior and after production implementation.

Responsibilities:

1.            Provides facilitation and writes complicated test plans.

2.            Identifies and uses adequate testing thoroughness.

3.            Actively engaged in promoting, supporting, improving, and documents existing testing processes, technology, and procedures.

4.            Works with hospital services, supervisors, managers, or others to automate tasks which have proven to be standard and repetitive.

5.            Analyzes and tests performance/operational impact of new technologies, processes, and changes to existing systems.

6.            Obtains results that are within established scope, timeline, and quality levels.

7.            Provides communications, test plans, and audits as it relates to implementation.

8.            Communicates testing methodologies using language and technical details appropriate for audience.

9.            Works with project manager or other staff to coordinate and schedule the various tasks for successfully analyzing, designing, developing, testing and implementing projects per the release schedule.

10.          Updates standard reports/metrics that measure output and quality of testing deliverables.

During the interview process with the DMH staff, the resource consultant must demonstrate competence/experience in their specific area(s) of project assignment. The resource’s experience must also be documented for review and verification. Offered resources not showing technical or functional competence/experience will be sufficient reason to reject the Offeror’s proposal.  It is the responsibility of the Offeror to pre-screen their candidates to ensure compliance.  

1.            Strong communication/ leadership skills. 

2.            Strong influence, collaboration and negotiation experience. 

3.            Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines. 

4.            Have excellent oral and written skills/possess strong meeting and work session facilitation skills. 

5.            Have the ability to work independently and as part of a team, the ability to manage time and resources to meet assigned deadlines. 

6.            Have strong understanding of prioritization stemming from the elicitation of system and/or user requirements. 

7.            Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills. 

8.            Must be knowledgeable in the English language/speak clearly and understandably use the English language.

1.            7+ years Minimum experience in a quality assurance related position that had similar primary duties in addition to education requirements.

2.            7+ years of experience in administration and operation of at least one Test Management technology/system: (HP QC, MTM, Microsoft TFS, JIRA, Rational, Bugzilla, etc.)

3.            5+ years of experience with one database applicable programming environment: (MS SQL, Oracle, MySQL, etc.)

4.            Project management experience preferred.

5.            Excellent communicator.

6.            Ability to work in a team and experience in leading team meetings

7.            Experience with Avatar in Health Care settings (understands basic workflows)

8.            Organized and a quick learner.

Thanks,

Sunny Roy
Su...@cncconsulting.com