Quality Assurance Engineer

 

Location: Baltimore

 

Hours: Personnel shall work an eight-hour day (normal business hours, but actual work hours to be changed), Monday through Friday

 

Personnel may be required to work past this time, on evenings, overnight, weekends, or Holidays as the work dictates.

 

Salary: 39 to 49$/hour

 

Minimum Requirements

 

Education: BS

 

Individuals proposed as Quality Assurance Engineer shall:

 

·         Demonstrate at least four (4) years of experience with manual functional/regression testing design and execution experience.

·         Shall have five (5) years of experience working with quality control methods and tools

Duties and Responsibilities of the Quality Assurance Manager Candidate

The Quality Assurance Engineer shall:

A)                Conduct a quality review walkthrough of business requirements documentation.

B)                 Collaborate with vendors and SME’s on unit testing.

C)                 Act as a senior QA technical resource on project teams to oversee all QA test plans, cases, and scripts.

D)                Interact with Developers, User Groups, Business Analysts, System Administrators, SME’s, and other project team members.

E)                 Apply proven analytical and problem-solving skills to help validate IT processes through careful testing in order to maximize the benefit of business investments in IT initiatives.

F)                  Develop and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.

G)                Prepare and deliver reports, recommendations, or alternatives that address existing and potential trouble areas in IT systems and projects across the organization.

H)                Conduct internal audits to measure and assure adherence to established QA standards for software development, application integration, information system performance, and corresponding documentation.

I)                   Design and execute manual test plans and test scripts for integrated systems, user acceptance testing, complete modules, and/or workflows.

J)                   Develop (converting requirements), maintain, execute, and present test plan to rigorously test product functionality and investigate all potential product test failures.

K)                Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.

L)                 Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, such as system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods.

M)               Make recommendations for improvement of applications to programmers and software developers or engineers.

N)                Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and project team.

O)                Test any new software to ensure integration into the existing systems meets functional requirements, system compliance, and technical specifications.

P)                  Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.

Q)                Perform bug fix verification and validation.

a.       Monitor and track all issues

b.      Perform all requirement and system testing

c.       Retest all issues to validate system fixes

R)                 Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.

S)                  Participate in developing, distributing, and coordinating in-depth end-user reviews for modified and new systems or applications.

T)                 Cultivate and disseminate knowledge of quality assurance best practices.

U)                Verify and revise quality assurance standards as needed.

V)                Provides quality management for information systems using the standard methodologies, techniques, and metrics for assuring product quality and key activities in quality management.

W)               Establish capable processes, monitoring and control of critical processes and product mechanisms for feedback of performance, implementation of an effective root cause analysis and corrective action system, and continuous process improvement.

X)                Provides strategic quality plans in targeted areas of the organization.

Y)                Provides quality assurance (QA) strategies to ensure continuous production of products consistent with established industry standards, government regulations and customer requirements.

Z)                 Develops and implements life cycle and QA methodologies and educates and implements QA metrics.