CEP SQA Analyst

Position Title:  CEP SQA Analyst Department: Information Technology Location(s): KC, DEN, OKC, OMA or Remote Employee Status: Contract

Purpose:

You’ll play a key role, collaborating with leading tech professionals to strengthen and protect our economic, financial and payments systems. We invest in contemporary an emerging technology each year to support our company and our economy, and we’re building a dynamic and diverse team for our future. The Common Exam Platform (CEP) team is seeking senior level Software Quality Assurance professionals to develop, support and deliver testing strategies and solutions for several applications in support of the company’s mission to deliver quality to our customers. This role requires gathering and analyzing data including the review of systems requirements to write test plans and scripts, track and facilitate defect resolution, and apply analytical problem- solving skills by collaborating with business and technical staff throughout the development and testing process

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, designs, tests, and delivers technology solutions for business areas and implements and executes comprehensive software quality assurance strategies. Establishes and fosters collaborative relationships with customers, service providers, and technical delivery partners.

• Develops test scenarios/user acceptance criteria by understanding business drivers to perform an analysis and review of requirement specifications and/or user stories. Develops, reviews, and executes test plans, test scripts, and test data to ensure application products and services meet business needs, quality standards, and end user/non-functional requirements (i.e., environments and user interfaces).

• Documents, tracks, and resolves software defects or issues in collaboration with the product delivery team. Ensures quality is built into the software solution throughout the software development lifecycle by performing peer reviews and leveraging relevant quality assurance processes and technologies.

• Develops and communicates software quality measures that report the reliability, compliance/accessibility, performance, and security of the software products and services developed. Works closely with delivery partners to understand and align software quality assurance services with product delivery approach and schedule. Performs other duties as assigned.

Experience, Education, Skills:

• Typically requires at least 6 years of relevant experience.

• Bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science/technology, business

• administration, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of directly related education and/or experience.

• Broad, in-depth understanding and experience with the quality assurance and testing discipline.

• Performs most work independently with limited supervision and direction.

• Senior to advanced level understanding of the subject.

• May consult with management or senior staff in decision making.

• Experience working in the financial industry surrounding .NET, Java, and JavaScript technologies.

• Providing manual and automated testing services to assure the quality of strategic and high priority applications.

• Testing skills and experience with agile, cloud-based delivery in close alignment with the application development team