Quality Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Create Automation Test Strategies for departmental initiatives
• Implementing automation tools, strategies, and roadmaps for the entire IT division
• Identify vulnerabilities within existing automation and find ways to optimize scripts to increase execution time
• Thoroughly understand and support business goals as they relate to applications under test
• Ensure automation initiatives across multiple projects focusing on and advocate project quality and reliability
• Code functions, classes, and methods to support automated tests for HP QTP, HP Load runner, and Visual Studio
• Code test scripts using C#, VB and VB scripts. Create, execute, and maintain automated test scripts with in Quality Center to validate that systems are fit for purpose
• Alert development team to product design inconsistencies and deviations from standards
• Recommend alternatives that would lead to a more optimal user experience;
• Work closely with the release management team to have a release certify and scheduled for production
• Gather functional and non-functional test requirement working with business and operational team to meet the requirement and successfully validate the release
• Work with the deployment and release management team to successfully deploy the build in test environment and maintain the integrity of the environments
• Conduct triage cycle for each of issue identified and follow through the successful closure
• Provide input in developing quality assurance standards in regards to functional, regression, performance and load testing
• Participate in industry and other professional networks to ensure awareness of industry standards, trends and best practices in order to strengthen organizational and technical knowledge; and
• Develop effective relationships within and among departments and other Agile team members.

Requirements:

• Associate degree or equivalent combination of education and\or work experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organizational skills and an aptitude for detail.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.
• Proven ability to coach/motivate a team to performance metrics.
• Familiar with Office 365, Google, Outlook, and its suite of applications.
• Proficient in Microsoft Applications: Word, Excel, Outlook and Microsoft Project.
• Ability to define problems, collects data, establish facts, and identify/analyze trends.
• Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and work under stringent deadlines
• Previous Service Center and/or Quality Assurance experience.

Key Skills:

• Detail-oriented. 
• Time Management. 
• Flexibility in Analytical Approaches. 
• Collaboration and Teamwork. 
• Critical Thinking. 
• Communication.