Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: Remote but need to be located in Dallas, TX

Direct-hire or 6-month CTH

Our client, a Continuing Education provider for teachers, is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst to handle all IT quality control by establishing the organizations QA process entirely from scratch.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Lead QA take on full ownership of building out the organization’s entire QA process from the ground-up via analysis of multiple custom .NET, Drupal, and Salesforce web applications, writing all of the test cases from scratch, and then eventually creating an automated QA testing process. In addition, this position will be responsible for managing an offshore QA team.

Responsibilities:



• Contribute to functional designs, user impact analysis, training plans and materials and communications
• Pre-screen software problem reports to determine deviation from system specifications
• Reports software defects
• Create test plans and appropriate test schedules and ensure all scenarios are covered for functional, integration, and regression testing
• Support defect management with creation of defects, providing information to app dev on expected outcome and retesting when assigned
• Develop business functional and technical test plans on integrated systems for managing mechanical production processes, executing the testing of technology systems ensuring quality and efficient systems performance
• Analyzes business requirements for completeness, testability and develops test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data and will carry out the Quality Assurance testing activities to ensure the applications and products and/or releases follow the Quality Assurance standards of the organization
• Providing Quality Assurance services to projects, maintenance activities and taking ownership of the quality of applications while conducting Quality Assurance development processes, developing test solutions, and assisting in the development, implementation, and maintenance of Quality Assurance best practices and testing standards
• Reviews business requirements, use cases, business scenarios, and design specifications to create test cases. Responsible for Quality Assurance (QA) by analyzing information systems and identifies and documents any quality related issues
• Apply industry defined development techniques to create and modify IT solutions
• Develop standards, including measures, metrics, and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), to accurately assess whether the solutions meet the intended outcomes
• Ability to produce reports related to defect production/burndown, test case pass/failure rates, and all other QA related metrics.

Qualifications:



• 5+ years’ relevant experience working in a comparable software development environment as a manual or automated QA tester
• 1+ years’ experience performing quality assurance analysis in an Agile development environment
• .NET, Drupal, and Salesforce web application configuration and deployment preferred
• Ability to establish an QA process from scratch and write manual & automated test cases
• Experience managing offshore QA teams
• Ability to access and pull data from a SQL database
• Previous experience as a Software Developer, Business Analyst, or Product Owner
• Recent technical knowledge of eCommerce implementation and security challenges