QA Analyst

BUILD your career with a global, diversified company that provides market leading assessment capabilities and technology services to help clients around the world achieve their goals.

LIVE your passion through a culture that actively supports community involvement and embraces a "whole person" company benefits philosophy including a compensation package designed for your total well-being.

CREATE our future by empowering organizations of all sizes to monitor, measure, and understand information in order to improve effectiveness.  For more than four decades, we have been recognized as the trusted source for reliable data capture, assessment, and analysis.

We are the iconic brand in assessment and technology services.  We are Scantron professionals.

Scantron is a global, diversified company that provides market leading assessment capabilities and technology services to help learners, educators, business owners, and professionals around the world achieve their goals.  We empower organizations of all sizes to monitor, measure, and understand information in order to improve effectiveness.  For more than four decades, the Scantron brand has been recognized as the trusted source for assessments, analytics, technology services, managed print, and data capture solutions.  Scantron is headquartered in Eagan, MN, with offices in Omaha, NE, Columbia, PA, and in the Research Triangle of NC. www.Scantron.com

Rewards

• Take charge of your future with our generous 401K savings plan with company match, which is vested from day one.

• Participate in our company wide well-being program that also serves to lower your annual health insurance premiums.

• Explore new education opportunities with our Tuition Reimbursement Plan which covers up to $5,250.

• We offer work-life flexibility, meeting personal obligations along with professional success.

Job Summary 

The Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst responsible for ensuring a high level of quality, performance and accuracy of new and existing software technologies using test automation as well as manual testing practices. This role primarily focuses on web-based efforts that are utilized in a high availability, clustered web environment. This role works in conjunction with project management and other technical disciplines to create websites and applications that fulfill our internal and client business requirements according to budget, scope, design, quality standards and timeline.   

 Key Duties/Responsibilities 

• Participate in an initial consultation with the software development team and the IT Project Manager to ensure proper understanding of project scope
• Create testing plans based on the parameters outlined in the scope
• Design and develop test automation scripts using test automation guidelines
• Record all defects with appropriate level of detail in Azure DevOps or other designated issue tracking system
• Record and monitor detailed metrics to track the progress and outcomes of the testing process
• Communicate testing status verbally and in writing to the software development team and the Project Manager
• Make recommendations, debug failures and perform other tasks required
• Simulate an application state through use of administration applications or database scripts
• Participate in Scantron’s on-call rotation
• Translate use-cases and other requirement types into effective test cases according as part of SDLC
• Work with both internal and external stakeholders to develop / evaluate appropriate functional specifications
• Support the development of software documentation and other support materials
• Other duties as assigned by the department

Required skills

• Thorough understanding of the Software Quality Assurance Life Cycle with strong QA process skills.
• Background in automation
• Excellent time management skills with a proven ability to meet deadlines
• Ability to routinely demonstrate initiative and an ability to work autonomously
• Desire to operate and thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Multi-task effectively
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, and data gathering skills
• An astute sensitivity to detail
• Must also be able to speak in layman's terms to any nontechnical colleagues or clients

Qualifications

• 5 years of hands-on experience in all phases of testing: system integration, user acceptance and regression testing.

All team members are responsible for supporting and complying with internal and external audits, to include providing information, performing assigned tasks to ensure compliance, and preparing and maintaining evidence that key duties identified as internal controls have been performed.

All team members are responsible for supporting and complying with safety and security policies to promote a healthy working environment.

Scantron is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants who have disabilities may request that accommodations be made in order to complete the selection process by contacting our Director, Talent Acquisition, Wendy Hinson at  919 657-6903 .

EEO is the law. To review your rights under Equal Employment Opportunity please visit: www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf.

Key Attributes

• Influencer - Consensus-building; change management; motivator
• Accountability – Own the work; resolve conflicts; decisiveness; consistency in follow through
• Teamwork – Unify and motivate groups; collaborate with others on problem solving; actively listen to others and respect individual talents and differences; go above and beyond own area of responsibility
• Customer Focus – Passion for understanding market and customer needs and providing better solutions to our end-customers’ toughest issues
• Relationships – Outstanding interpersonal/relationship management skills
• Imaginative – Innovates by turning good ideas into action
• Integrity – Demonstrates the willingness and ability to do the right thing