Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

About the Role:

As a Quality Assurance Analyst you will play a critical role in delivering highquality software solutions to our clients by ensuring testing excellence across complex datadriven initiatives. You will be aligned to a businessunit delivery team and partner closely with Product Owners Business Analysts Developers and other QA professionals to define execute and continuously improve testing strategies.

This role balances handson testing with test planning automation reporting and quality advocacy. You will contribute across multiple initiatives applying riskbased thinking and strong technical skills to help ensure our solutions are reliable scalable and productionready.

The Impact Youll Make:

• Develop and implement effective riskbased testing strategies across multiple projects ensuring appropriate coverage traceability and quality outcomes
• Drive the testing lifecycle from business scope through deployment and production release within an agile delivery model
• Design create and execute comprehensive test plans test cases test scripts and test data including functional integration regression data integrity and stress testing
• Evaluate opportunities for test automation and performance testing recommending appropriate tools approaches and frameworks
• Design develop execute and maintain automated test scripts while analyzing test results and identifying root causes of failures
• Review business requirements technical designs and acceptance criteria to identify gaps risks and testability concerns early in the delivery process
• Identify document communicate and track defects from discovery through resolution ensuring clear reproduction steps and impact analysis
• Develop and manage QA metrics and reporting to monitor quality trends surface risks and drive continuous improvement
• Coordinate test environments test data creation and build promotions in partnership with project and delivery teams
• Participate in agile ceremonies design reviews and backlog refinement advocating for quality practices and influencing delivery decisions
• Educate and mentor developers peers and future QA team members on testing approaches tools and quality standards
• Contribute to the evolution of QA processes tools automation practices and continuous improvement initiatives across teams

What Youll Bring to Baird:

• A minimum of five (5) years of prior IT or businessrelated experience including at least three to five (35) years of Quality Assurance Test Automation or Software Development experience
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science MIS Business Administration Finance or a related field preferred
• Strong ability to decompose business and technical requirements into detailed effective test cases for functional regression and integration testing
• Demonstrated knowledge of software testing types and methodologies including blackbox whitebox graybox regression negative system and unit testing
• Experience working within agile delivery frameworks (Scrum Kanban Lean) and executing testing activities within short iteration cycles
• Handson experience testing APIs and data integrations with a strong understanding of how data flows across systems
• Demonstrated experience with automated UI and API testing tools (e.g. Selenium ThunderClient SOAPUI or similar) with the ability to identify and implement automation opportunities
• Strong SQL skills including the ability to write queries to validate data integrity transformations and reporting accuracy across large data sets
• Experience with defect tracking QA metrics and reporting with a focus on driving quality improvements
• Familiarity with test management tools such as Microsoft Test Manager Quality Center Azure DevOps or similar platforms preferred
• Working knowledge of common web technologies (HTML CSS JavaScript REST APIs)
• Strong communication skills with the ability to effectively collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders
• Proven ability to adapt to changing priorities manage multiple initiatives and identify quality risks in complex environments
• Experience partnering with Business Analysts Product Owners and Developers to review requirements identify risks and promote quality best practices

Baird is committed to diversity and provides employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex pregnancy citizenship national origin age disability military service veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression genetic information or any other status protected by law.