Software Test Analyst 5

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

NOTE: The manager has emphasized the importance of ensuring candidates are senior level and meet/exceed the skills listed within the attached job description. Thank you!

• 5 years experience designing and executing manual and automated test cases.
• 5 years experience analyzing requirements user stories (in Azure DevOps) and acceptance criteria to design effective reusable test cases (including positive negative and boundary testing).
• Demonstrable experience automating web applications using frameworks such as Playwright Selenium Cypress or similar.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced agile development environment.

Interview Process: Candidates submitted must be willing to come onsite (Lansing MI) for interviews.

Accepting local candidates within 90 minutes of Lansing MI ONLY. Position will be hybrid in office 2 days a week upon start and there is NO REMOTE ONLY option.

Must Have senior level (5 years) experience and proficiency in the following:

Testing & Quality Assurance Skills

• Designing and executing manual and automated test cases.
• Understanding of software testing methodologies and quality assurance processes (Quality Assurance User Acceptance System Integration Accessibility Performance Regression Post Deployment Validation Data Conversion).
• Generating and documenting test plans and strategies.
• Generating testing reports and metrics.
• Generating and acquiring test data.
• ADA Compliance testing tools such as AccVerify JAWS etc.
• API testing and tools like Postman Rest Client and others.
• Build environments DEV UAT QAT PRE-PROD specific test suites with integrated application life cycle management.
• Ability to analyze requirements user stories (in Azure DevOps) and acceptance criteria to design effective reusable test cases (including positive negative and boundary testing).
• Experience in identifying documenting and tracking bugs clearly and concisely in a tool like Azure DevOps.
• Performance and load testing with tools like JMeter or LoadRunner

Automation & Technical Skills

• Proven experience writing clean maintainable and object-oriented Java code for test automation.
• Demonstrable experience automating web applications using frameworks such as Playwright Selenium Cypress or similar.
• Writing clear and effective Gherkin scenarios (Given/When/Then).
• Implementing Step Definitions in Java.
• Writing SQL and P-SQL queries.
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries (SELECTs JOINs) for test data setup and validation against Oracle and/or SQL Server databases.
• Proficiency in using Git for version control (merging pull requests) as part of a team.

Agile & Collaboration

• Experience working as an active participant in an Agile/Scrum team and its ceremonies.
• Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and design test cases.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced agile development environment.
• Strong skills in communicating test results bugs and risks to developers BAs and other stakeholders.

Security & Compliance

• Understanding of the secure application development lifecycle (SADLC).

Soft Skills & Other Requirements

• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in person in downtown Lansing 2 days a week.

Nice to Have:

• Experience using Azure DevOps Testing Module.
• Experience with Mobile App testing of iOS and Android applications.
• Experience automating web applications using the Playwright for Java library.
• Experience using Eclipse as a primary development environment.
• A background in Selenium WebDriver which provides a strong foundation for understanding the strategies and nuances of browser automation.
• Experience with the TestNG framework. (This remains valuable since your framework uses it for test running and its skipping logic).
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman RESTAssured or APIRequestContext.