Position: QA Analyst
Location: San Jose, CA (Remote)
Duration: 6+ Months (contract)
Job Description:
- We are looking for a candidate who has experience building a comprehensive manual test case framework in an enterprise environment using modern toolsets.
- With a view to the majority of these tests being integrated into automated testing.
- They should have experience working in close collaboration with developers and manual/automated QA testers (both comfortably in small and large teams) to create a resilient testing platform that reduces manual intervention and increases confidence in regression/baseline testing as well as new features in the application.
- As a Manual QA Engineer, your responsibilities and duties include the manual testing of application software in both the pre- and post-release stages of the development lifecycle.
- Bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience are required.
- Should be comfortable working in a small team, fast-paced team environment.
- Fast-paced environment with modern frameworks and agile methodologies.
- Release into production happens weekly following a two-week sprint cycle
- Candidate is expected to run Release production testing following test plan that they have built tailored to the release Testing sessions are conducted weekly, despite two-week sprint cycles.
- High emphasis is placed on careful and critical release management into production.
- Should write detailed, in-depth test cases from scratch.
- Should be able to understand and adapt to the specific SDLC of the company. Working independently and be a self starter.
- Able to handle both manual testing and have some light automation experience.
- Working at enterprise level with web based applications and modern frameworks (Financial and banking industry together with federal industry experience less so)
- It is preferred that candidates are not from the financial banking industry, even if they have web-based experience.
- Proficient in testing across devices including Mac & PC, Windows & iOS, various supporting browsers, mobile & tablet devices