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Job Description
Position Title: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Position Summary:
Under the general direction of the Quality Assurance Manager the Sr. QA Analyst will architect manage and execute manual and automated test plans for the MFS this capacity the Sr. QA Analyst will act as an essential link in the project development lifecycle and will work closely with the QA Manager developers business analysts and other QA staff to ensure that business requirements are testable and verifiable as identified by project teams in order to ensure requirements traceability and delivery of expected functionality.
Successful candidates will demonstrate career commitment to testing and/or quality assurance. The candidate should show familiarity with test approaches and best practices.
Primary Responsibilities:
Create comprehensive test plans with well defined reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents.
Execute software testing to include functional testing system testing regression testing and performance testing.
Work with the automation engineers to record and maintain automated test script libraries for functional regression testing for assigned applications.
Document software defects in an issues tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and business analysts.
Participate in business requirements and functional specifications reviews early in the software development lifecycle process.
Assists with the development integration and coordination of cross-organization test projects.
Manages scheduling to ensure efficient and effective product testing; identifies and reports risks to project schedule and product quality and proposes new methods to control and/or mitigate risks.
Generate effective status and progress reports to the QA Manager and project team managers.
Test implementation procedures.
Provide testing leadership for the projects in which he or she is assigned to.
Specific Job Skills:
Successful candidate will have an aggregate of 5 years of experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment. Recent experience must include hands-on testing.
Minimum experience with financial software testing is required
Basic understanding of financial terms is required (stock bonds cash asset mix fund index securities risk).
Strong SQL/Database skills
Experience in knowledge of industry standard best practices as related to software testing.
Experience in all phases of software application design development and testing.
Ability to translate from business requirements to technical testing solutions.
Experience with full cycle testing including functional testing system testing integration testing performance and stress testing.
Additional Skills and Abilities:
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Strong partnership and relationship building skills.
Exceptional organizational skills and attention to detail.
Strong problem solving abilities.
Education:
Minimum BA or BS Degree.
Employment Type
Full Time
