What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA/QC Analyst position at Kimley-Horn?
Overview
Kimley-Horn, one of Fortune Magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For,” is looking for a Software Testing and QA/QC Analyst to join the corporate team in our Dallas, TX office.
You're a motivated, self-starter with a strong foundation of software testing ready to take on the opportunity of implementing software QA/QC. Your dynamic skillset will be utilized to work with new software and technologies as you help define, plan, and conduct testing strategies. You will work side-by-side with our development team, and other internal partners as you build out the testing pattern and infrastructure.
This is an in-office position.
Responsibilities
- Define, monitor, and maintain the overall test strategy for custom business applications and system integrations
- Determine testing standards by creating best practices, policies, and procedures
- Document and present software testing results, quality metrics and make recommendations for continued testing process improvement
- Actively participate in requirements and design sessions to create test plans
- Implement and utilize both manual test cases and automated testing tools and frameworks to perform functional, system integration, data quality, and performance/load testing
- Identify creative ways to break applications and solutions
- Troubleshoot and assist in the diagnosis of unintended results from testing
- Utilize bug tracking tools to report, document, and track bugs
Qualifications
- BA/BS in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology/Systems, or related field
- 2-4 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance field, or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
- Natural collaborator with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to handle multiple projects and work on business-critical solutions across a variety of different disciplines
- Ability to build good working relationships with people at all levels; and understand the needs of different stakeholders and communicate with them appropriately
- Thorough understanding of software testing methodologies and techniques
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Understanding of web, software, and application development process and methodologies
- Experience with NoSQL databases (Cosmos DB) a plus
- Experience testing against .NET and Angular applications preferred
- Experience with software development management tools (Azure DevOps preferred)
