Quality Assurance Analyst

About the position

Are you a person that enjoys learning and discovering how things work, and how they help address a problem or a need? Are you interested in learning how mission critical software is built and tested? Are you passionate about the workings of our criminal justice system? If you said “yes” then we want to talk to you! As a member of the Northpointe, Inc. Quality Assurance team, you will have the opportunity to understand, use and test criminal justice software used by a diverse user base across the country. You will be working with the team building our software product and solutions that are helping support the management of thousands of justice-involved people across the United States. We’re looking for passionate and creative individuals to help us shape how we test our enterprise-grade software. You will use your technical and analytical skills to help us test key areas of our software as well as to define creative strategies to ensure we’re testing high value areas.

Responsibilities

• Test and/or validate development tasks during the sprint cycle
• Participate in the defect review cycle
• Develop product specific test cases
• Manage test data and test environments as required
• Help design, implement and review test scripts
• Work with other team members to identify test plans
• Review and understand Product and Business requirements
• Design test plans and test cases for Regression and Functional tests
• Manually execute tests, record results and report test status
• Document defects in the defect tracking system and assist in their resolution as required
• Support automation developers as required to increase automated testing coverage
• Execute integration and regression testing as required

Requirements

• Working experience in Software Quality Assurance testing or software engineering background
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Windows Server environments
• Working knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server databases and relational database concepts
• Working knowledge of HTML/CSS, Java Script, SQL and web technology

Nice-to-haves

• Ability to understand business process and logic
• Ability to work independently and as a team member
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills
• Flexibility and ability to prioritize individual workload
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Dedication to documenting project and defect statuses
• Ability to work individually on problems, but recognize appropriate escalation timelines and methods