QA Analyst - Expert

Iris Consulting Corporation - Mendota Heights, MN

Full-time - Mid Level

Mendota Heights, MN

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The QA Analyst - Expert at IRIS Consulting Corporation is responsible for writing test plans, creating and automating test scripts, executing tests, and tracking defects using established QA tools and methodologies. This role requires strong analytical and problem-solving skills to validate processes and address complex issues, ensuring high product quality and value delivery across various projects and services. The position emphasizes innovation in testing approaches and collaboration with team members to enhance application performance and meet business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Adhere to established Patterson QA standards for Quality Assurance Process and Methodology.
• Collaborate with team members, including Software Engineers and Product Owners, regarding feature design.
• Analyze Product Backlog Items to create test plan documentation.
• Create and execute test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications.
• Demonstrate innovation in developing an automation solution for reducing test execution cycles, increasing overall test coverage, and improving product quality.
• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet or exceed business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as but not limited to system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods.
• Test any new software to ensure integration into company systems meets functional and non-functional requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications.
• Review requirements and test cases to ensure complete test coverage.
• Perform issue tracking, reporting and resolution of issues found during testing.
• Define and track quality assurance metrics.
• Identify and mitigate risks early in development with risk-based testing by calculating which level to test each requirement.
• Collect and analyze data for software process evaluation and improvements and integrate them into business processes.
• Mentor QA analyst peers.
• Drive quality improvements through recommending new technology, tools, industry best practices, and processes.

Requirements

• Associate degree with emphasis on Computer Science, IT or related QA field or equivalent software experience.
• 5+ years' experience in quality assurance and testing applications.
• Demonstrated leadership skills including mentoring other QA team members, driving QA process improvements, and making strategic decisions.
• Strong knowledge of QA best practices, methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Experience with desktop, web, cloud, and mobile applications.
• Ability to conduct research into software-related issues and products.
• Hands-on experience with SQL scripting, ad hoc queries, and automated testing tools such as Postman, Selenium, Cypress, and Playwright.
• Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail and ability to prioritize.
• Strong communication skills.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment using application lifecycle management tools, such as Azure DevOps.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Content Management Systems, such as Kentico.
• Understanding of Multifactor Authentication along with Azure Active Directory B2C.
• Understanding the concepts of GIT for repository management and exposure to branching strategies.
• Experience with truck-based development testing practices.