Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UDC is seeking a Senior QA Tester to support planning, design, and execution of system testing for implementations ranging from simple to complex. The role owns testing strategy for assigned projects, coordinates testing phases, and works with development teams and stakeholders to track results, risks, and defects.
Responsibilities
- The Senior QA Tester supports the planning, design and execution of system testing on simple to complex implementations
- Review user requirement documents to ensure that requirements are testable
- Prepare data sets to test logic, effort handling, and system workflows
- Develop test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test reports to ensure that software functions as expected
- Perform testing on various software, utility systems and reporting systems
- Isolate, reproduce, and document system defects
- Verify fixes
- Document test execution and results according to required procedures
- Track testing progress and results against numerous working scenarios for a single testable requirement
- Work with development team to determine the most effective testing and inspection strategy for projects of varying complexity and size
- Track and manage test environment configurations for accurate and effective testing results
- Take ownership of the overall testing strategy and approach for assigned projects/workstreams
- Coordinate testing across the applicable testing phases
- Define and track test readiness/entry and exit criteria, leading defect triage, applying risk based testing, and providing testing status, metrics, risks and issues to the project team and client stakeholders
Skills
- Familiarity with software development life cycle and quality assurance methodologies
- Experience with GIS software tools and applications, both desktop and web enabled
- Electric and/or gas utility experience
- Working knowledge of Waterfall and Agile/Scrum software methodologies
- Familiarity with all aspects of Quality Assurance testing of software, including Unit, System and Regression testing
- Detail oriented, analytical and inquisitive
- Ability to work independently and with others, strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to consistently stage testing data for workflow test scenarios accurately and thoroughly while keeping track of the testing environments
- Extremely organized with strong time-management skills
- Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university with a major in GIS, Computer Science, Information Technology or a closely related field; or 5-8 years' experience in a Quality Assurance Analyst or Tester role; or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Writing requirements specifications, use cases, user stories and test plans, testing criteria, including data type validation, pass/fail conditions, boundary conditions, as well as experience designing, developing and testing processes for data
- Experience with large-scale Systems Integrations projects preferred
Benefits
- For full-time employees: Medical / Dental / Vision
- For full-time employees: HSA
- For full-time employees: 401K & Employer Match
- For full-time employees: Paid Time Off (includes vacation and sick time)
- For full-time employees: Parental Leave
- For full-time employees: Long Term and Short Term Disability (Employer Paid)
- For full-time employees: Basic Term Life and AD&D (Employer Paid)
- For full-time employees: Voluntary Term Life and AD&D
- For full-time employees: Voluntary Critical Illness Insurance
- For full-time employees: Student Loan Repayment Program
- For full-time employees: Gym Reimbursement Program
- For full-time employees: Paid Volunteer Time
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