QA Analyst III

$115,000 - $145,000/Yr

Verisk Analytics - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Mid Level

Jersey City, NJ

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The QA Analyst III is responsible for ensuring the quality and performance of large-scale, multi-platform software products, including web, API, and mobile applications. This role focuses on developing automated functional integration tests and end-to-end tests within an Agile environment, contributing to the overall system testing process.

Responsibilities

• Developing and implementing software testing strategies, plans, and procedures.
• Writing and executing manual test cases, automated scripts, and scenarios for web and API.
• Identifying and reporting defects and issues to the development team and tracking them through to resolution.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that applications and products meet functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participating in agile meetings and requirements review meetings to ensure that quality is built into the product from the start.
• Maintaining test environments, test data, and testing tools.
• Analyzing test results and providing meaningful feedback to stakeholders.
• Developing and maintaining automated test suites and test scripts.
• Conducting performance, load, and stress testing.

Requirements

• Bachelor's in computer science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of proven experience in the software development industry, participating in team environment.
• 6+ years of experience in automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver using programming languages like Python, C#, Java.
• 5+ years of proven experience in testing and automating web services such as RESTful API.
• 3+ years of proven experience in performance testing using tools such as Apache JMeter.
• 2+ years of web-application mobile testing automation experience with Appium.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python, Java, C# .Net.
• Experience with testing SaaS & PaaS products.
• Experience with monitoring and SRE practices.
• Experience in CI/CD technologies (e.g., bamboo, bitbucket, octopus, Maven etc.).
• Knowledge or experience of other languages/tools - AngularJS, Protractor, Jasmine, JavaScript, RestAssured.
• Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, automation, and operations.
• Knowledge or experience in AWS Cloud.
• Demonstrated excellent communication skills.
• Ability to learn and adapt to continuously changing technology.
• Familiarity with Atlassian Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with Agile [Scrum].
• Familiarity with working in a Continuous Integration atmosphere.