What are the responsibilities and job description for the CAT Tester position at Apexon?
Company Description
Apexon is a digital-first technology services firm based in Washington, DC, specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human-centric digital experiences. With over 27 years of experience, Apexon focuses on User Experience, Engineering, and Data services with deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences. The company is backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital.
Role Description
This is a full-time on-site role for a CAT Tester at Apexon. The CAT Tester will be responsible for conducting testing activities for software applications and systems, ensuring quality and compliance with project requirements. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to identify defects and improve the overall quality of digital solutions.
CAT Tester
Washington DC (Day-1 Onsite)
List of Tasks to be Performed:
- Develop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).
- Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.
- Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.
- Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.
- Automated test script development
- Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.
- Other related duties as assigned.
Required Experience Level:
- Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience, in technology or software development preferred.
- Mail.DAT and Mail.XML are fundamental to the electronic data exchange of mailing information. Experience with Mail.DAT, and Mail.XML specification is desired.
- Experience eliciting and documenting business process and requirement.
- Experience analyzing business processes and recommending improvements.
- Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
- Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
- Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.
- Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, Workflow
- Hands-on knowledge of scripting language such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)
- Experience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.
- Software Testing certification is preferred.
