QA Analyst

McLane Company - Temple, TX

Full-time - Entry Level

Temple, TX

1,001-5,000 employees

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The QA Analyst position at McLane Company is a hybrid role focused on ensuring that information systems products and services meet company standards and customer requirements. The role involves reviewing project activities, performing testing assignments, and collaborating with team members to enhance testing coverage and methodologies. The candidate will work from the office three days a week and is expected to support various quality assurance activities throughout the project life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Review development of systems during the feasibility, requirements, design, construction, testing, and implementation phases of project life cycles.
• Collaborate with teammates to determine if executed testing techniques provide adequate testing coverage.
• Communicate with customers to develop test cases for projects and applications.
• Assist developers and technicians with writing test plans.
• Perform manual testing.
• Monitor and assist with development of automated testing.
• Provide input for enhancements to the development standards and methodology guidelines.
• Perform audits of projects to determine if methodology and testing guidelines were followed.
• Prepare reports resulting from system reviews and advise management of risk factors for project implementations.
• Validate user acceptance of life cycle deliverables.
• Participate in system and user acceptance testing.
• Perform reviews of submitted changes queued for production deployment.
• Support change control and production promotion activities.
• Provide on call support.
• Perform post implementation surveys.
• Support internal and external audit requests.
• Participate in disaster recovery testing.
• Perform administration of software applications aligned with the Quality Assurance team.
• Log time and information accurately in a time-tracking system.
• Acquire new skills for enhancing job performance.
• Work independently and with other teammates.
• Perform other duties assigned as requested or required.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Information Systems, or a two-year degree with commensurate work experience.
• Excellent written and oral communications, report writing, problem solving, and technical skills.
• Organized and detail-oriented.
• One to two years of experience in methodology, research, analysis, and reporting.
• Knowledge of project review techniques and requirements definition, design, construction, testing, and implementation phases of methodology for both application development and infrastructure areas.
• Ability to work with Linux, Windows, zOS, IBM i environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, and SharePoint.
• One to two years of experience in test case development and using various testing techniques.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with DB2 SQL, Oracle SQL, Linux, Windows, Mainframe TSO / ISPF, iSeries.
• Experience with Jira project management software.
• Experience with IntelliJ IDEA, Jenkins, Bamboo, Selenium.