What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Tester position at TEKsystems?
This role is 100% onsite in Salem, VA. Candidates must be able to work W2 WITHOUT sponsorship
Top Skills' Details
• Analytical, detail oriented and highly organized.
• Associates degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to develop automated test software, create test routines, etc. for hardware and software products.
• Familiarity with relational database design, good knowledge of Microsoft SQL with the ability to create database queries.
• Experience with black box and white box testing techniques and methodologies.
• Mastery of unit, integration, performance, and stability testing techniques.
• Experience with JIRA, Zephyr, and Confluence testing and documentation tools.
• Experience working in a development team environment and ability to influence the quality of the product in that environment.
• Exceptional written/verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Technical writing skills.
Job Description:
This position primarily performs complex testing of software systems, but also performs testing of physical hardware. Position conducts testing to assure new product introductions comply with design requirements, design specifications, and total quality objectives and standards. Additionally, this position supports the creation and on-going maintenance of product user and technical guides and provides a lead role in root cause analysis, documentation, and reporting regarding product returns. Working closely within a development team, the QA Specialist communicates with product developers and technical support specialists to identify and remedy product defects. The QA Specialist drives improvements and efficiencies within the overall Product Development organization.
Perform responsibilities in accordance with all company standards, policies and procedures.
Essential Functions:
• Designs and implements complex test cases, creates test plans and develops manual or automated test cases and procedures.
• Performs testing on new software and hardware development projects and supports legacy platform products.
• Executes software and hardware application tests, generates test data and metrics, communicates test status and analyzes results.
• Acts as the “consumer advocate” on quality issues, researches and develops an understanding of the requirements for the product feature being tested, including how the users use the feature and their performance requirements for the features.
• Responsible for recognizing, documenting, and proposing solutions for process problems and defects that may be critical to products usability.
• Helps establish guidelines for testing.
• Records defects (using bug tracking software), including documenting information useful in the debugging process, evaluating test data, problem discovery, tracking and resolution.
• Supports and maintains product guides and manuals.
• Evaluates product returns for root cause analysis. Documents findings and provides oral and written reports to internal teams and to end-users as needed.
• Provides written and oral reports of test results to management and development team that are clear and concise.
• Manages priorities when assigned to multiple teams.
• Keeps abreast of evolving QA industry processes and standards.
• Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Analytical, detail oriented and highly organized.
• Associates degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, OR equivalent experience.
• Ability to develop automated test software, create test routines, etc. for hardware and software products.
• Familiarity with relational database design, good knowledge of Microsoft SQL with the ability to create database queries.
• Experience with black box and white box testing techniques and methodologies.
• Mastery of unit, integration, performance, and stability testing techniques.
• Experience with JIRA, Zephyr, and Confluence testing and documentation tools.
• Experience working in a development team environment and ability to influence the quality of the product in that environment.
• Exceptional written/verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills.
• Technical writing skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Diverse hardware and software technology experience (across databases, operating environments, application platforms, delivery models, etc.).
• Exposure to multiple software development methodologies.
• Experience in software security threat analysis and techniques.
• Software development skills for creating applications in support of product testing.
• Experience in troubleshooting electro-mechanical products for root-cause determination.
Additional Skills & Qualifications: Ability to work with multiple teams and prioritize tasks. Ability to communicate via conference call with developers in other countries.
Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
- Client is rapidly growing and gaining new clients.
-great company benefits
Work Environment:
This resource will be working with new product development team.. They will be working and communicating with development teams that work remotely on a regular basis. Client is a casual environment. They are open to training individuals so they can progress in their career with the company.
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
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