QA Testing Analyst: IV (Lead)

Title: QA Testing Analyst: IV (Lead)

Type: Contract to Hire

Location: Columbus, OH or Minnetonka, MN (HYBRID)

Responsible for the planning, integration, test casing, scripting and execution of all testing to ensure proper coverage;

Schedules and leads test deliverables review sessions as necessary;

Work on multiple projects/systems as a project team member and are considered to be a subject matter expert for a single project/system. These projects are of moderate to high complexity within one or more development environments;

Collaborate with the BSA and Development teams in the analysis and review of business objectives and requirements to ensure requirements are testable;

Actively participate in the review of architectural and technical design specifications;

Develop, document and maintain the test data, data validation, end to end testing flows.;

Conducts testing using CLIENT manual and/or automated test processes and reports results;

May run database queries in order to supply data validation within test scripts;

Updates test cases based upon approved change requests; Works with BSAs and Development teams on defect analysis and triage;

Assigns defect severity, and manages defects throughout the project;

Works with colleagues and project managers to meet established target dates and completion of activities/deliverables under changing conditions;

Creates test status reports per project guidelines;

Creates test results and test summary deliverables to ensure production implementation readiness;

Creates and facilitates review of the Test Strategy with the project team;

Identifies any potential quality issues per defined processes and escalates potential quality issues immediately to management;

Collects testing sign-off from all testing participants, including cross-impacted application teams;

Ensures all aspects of testing, such as manual execution, regression, automation and performance testing, is completed;

Collaborates with Project Test Lead on estimating the test efforts;

Collaborates with the project team to support UAT efforts as needed;

Maintains the regression test bed to meet changing requirements;

Participates in off-hour production releases as needed;

Supports the projects warranty period as needed;

Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgement and problem solving;

Provides mentorship to junior team members as needed;

Understands and follows the project lifecycle methodology consistently.