Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst

Description

• Test Planning & Strategy - Develop, review, and implement detailed test plans and strategies mapped to business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. - Design UAT processes in close collaboration with business stakeholders, ensuring user needs and business goals are fully validated before software release.
• Collaboration & Continuous Improvement - Partner with product owners, business analysts, developers, and release managers, ensuring clear user story and acceptance criteria definition. - Participate in Agile ceremonies—sprint planning, stand-ups, demos, retrospectives—offering feedback and suggesting quality improvements. - Support root cause analysis and postmortem for defects found in production environments.
• Defect Management - Identify, log, track, and retest defects found during all phases of testing. - Prepare and distribute test summary reports, including defect logs and closure status.
• Test Execution & Automation - Execute functional, integration, regression, Performance, and exploratory testing across multiple test environments (Dev, QA, Stage, UAT). - Utilize relevant test platforms, such as Jira, Azure DevOps, and HP Quality Center, for managing test cases, defect tracking, and traceability. - Prioritize and automate high-value test cases, working with CI/CD pipelines where appropriate.
• Engage with a collaborative team that is dedicated to making a meaningful impact in the energy sector.
• UAT Management - Coordinate with business users and product owners to define, organize, and execute UAT cycles. - Drive creation and maintenance of UAT test cases, identifying necessary test data, and ensuring alignment with acceptance criteria. - Facilitate UAT sign-off, capture user feedback, and ensure all defects or issues are logged, tracked, and resolved before production deployment.
• Database Testing: Perform backend testing using SQL and Oracle to validate data accuracy, integrity, and consistency across systems. Write and execute complex queries to verify business logic, data transformations, and stored procedures. Validate data migration and ensure referential integrity across environments.

Requirements

• Experience in Automation tools –Selenium, Test Sigma, Test Rigor, TestIM, QTP, Postman, SOAPUI, JMeter, Load Runner
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Proficiency in SQL for validating data
• Comfortable writing clear, traceable test cases, mapping them to user stories, and updating them throughout the project lifecycle.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate and facilitate UAT with internal users and business stakeholders, ensuring thorough documentation and sign-off.
• Certifications such as ISTQB, CSTE, or Agile certifications are a plus.
• Strong communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills—capable of working effectively in cross-functional Agile teams.
• Experience with defect lifecycle management, from logging through resolution, using modern test and project management platforms.
• Familiarity with test automation principles and CI/CD processes. Ability to write/Develop scripts to automate test cases and build test frameworks.
• Experience with both manual and automated testing approaches across web and cloud-based applications.
• Exposure to multiple test environments (Dev, QA, Stage, UAT, Prod) and their configuration requirements.
• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and test management tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, HP Quality Center).
• 3-5 years proven experience in software QA, including hands-on experience developing and executing UAT cycles and working with various test platforms.
• FSA & HSA

Benefits

• Disability Coverage
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Gain exposure to cutting-edge projects and contribute to data-driven decision-making processes.
• Employee Discount Program
• Pre-Tax Commuter Account
• Paid Annual Personal/Sick Time (PST)
• First Professional Licensure Bonus
• Life & Accident Insurance
• Paid Bereavement Leave
• Back-Up Daycare
• Corporate Charitable Giving Program
• Merit Scholarship Program
• Paid Holidays
• Flexible Work Arrangements
• Employee Referral Bonus
• Work in an established company that values innovation and growth.
• Health Plans: Medical, Dental, Vision
• Paid Vacation
• Tuition Assistance

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance