Senior Manual QA Analyst
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job summary:As a Senior Manual QA Analyst, you will provide leadership through knowledge sharing and mentoring, as well as influence the continuous improvement of product quality and team health. The analyst will provide constructive feedback on test cases and documentation as well as design test scenarios for product teams. The successful candidate will also be a liaison between manual testers, automation engineers, and product teams. Additionally, in this role the analyst will be expected to heavily utilize their manual experience within the company's custom framework (any automation related experience when working on an eComm or website architecture end for example is a huge plus). Using tools such as selenium, appium and other end units will be a majority of the work. Not only that, this candidate will also be: using SQL to check databases to see what's ultimately hooked up on the backend, validating both manual and automated data with SQL, etc. Candidates must also possess deep technical knowledge of working in tools like Octopus, Teamcity and Git. Lastly, the majority of the responsibilities will be within the manual testing environment but candidates must also possess the willingness to learn automation testing as their growth-centric environment can also help foster those skills.
Requirements:- Experience training analysts and recommending areas of improvement in process and systems understanding.
- Automated testing technologies
- Proficiency with Selenium an/or Appium
- Proficiency with version control system (Git), Octopus and/or Team City
- Excellent at leveraging an issue tracking system (Jira)
- Solid verbal & written communication skills as well as collaboration skills
- Creative problem-solving skills.
- Flexible and willing to accept a change in priorities as necessary
- Demonstrate accuracy and attention to detail
- BS in Computer Science, Engineering discipline, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years testing applications in an Agile environment
- Experience with automated and performance testing
- Experience and proficiency in UX testing
- Experience writing complex SQL queries involving multiple joins, nested queries and other SQL functions/database objects
- Experience working with teams using CI/CD tools and methodologies
- Experience mentoring and coaching junior associates, specifically with QA methodologies and best practices
- Experience with test automation
- Experience in XML content validation
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
- Advanced test design techniques
- Write and execute manual and automated test cases that emphasize a risk-based approach.
- Effectively communicate necessary information to reproduce bugs or defects
- Collaborate with QA analysts, application developers and business owners to increase delivery speed and confidence in deployment changes.
- Establish yourself as a domain expert from whom others seek input to achieve business outcomes
- Participate in requirements kickoffs, technical kickoffs, task assignment and prioritization
- Have the desire and ability to learn how to write automated tests that increase confidence in deployments.
- Evaluate and identify risk-based areas in which test automation would be beneficial and cost-effective
- Work under minimal supervision on complex projects and assist less experienced colleagues as needed/requested
- Develop test scenarios within product teams
- Evaluate and identify risk-based areas in which test automation would be beneficial and cost-effective
- Identify and establish habits that foster continuous improvement
- Review Test Cases and Automated Test Scripts created by other team members to ensure that proper test coverage has been developed for each project
- Analyze data to determine root cause and perform impact assessment
- Experience level: Experienced
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Education: Bachelors (required)
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