Title: Lead Systems QA Analyst

Location:

Charlotte, NC

Alternative Locations:

Boston, MA

Des Moines, IA

Minneapolis, MN

Duration: 6 months

Work Engagement: W2

Benefits on offer for this contract position: Health Insurance, Life insurance, 401K and Voluntary Benefits

Summary:

Lead a variety of systems quality assurance testing initiatives on software systems. Act as key participant in planning for systems quality assurance. Automate test procedures, cases, and research new tools, technologies, and processes to improve quality assurance. Lead testing, development, and project teams to provide training, resolve escalated issues, assess testing needs, and recommend changes. Provide guidance to team. Lead implementation of complex projects and initiatives impacting one or more lines of business. Work with leaders to define and establish processes, templates, and standards related to systems testing. Interact with more experienced leaders to provide support and propel efforts for the business. Recommend compliance and risk management requirements for supported area and implement key risk initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• This resource will be responsible for coordination and facilitating of the testing schedules as well as meetings for testing sessions.
• Will be responsible for defining the testing holistic strategy for testing 2 large SaaS platforms launching together
• Will write test cases and translate business requirements into the test cases.
• Will perform UAT testing, migration testing, integration testing, as well as load/performance testing.
• Will track defect testing and facilitate retests as needed.

Qualifications:

• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
• Strong background in system and integration testing.
• Experience in documenting strategy/testing approach across multiple testing components, facilitation of meetings and/or testing sessions, defect tracking and retesting.
• Fundamental understanding of how test automation is developed and utilized.
• Previous experience working with 3rd party vendor systems.
• An understanding of all phases of software development lifecycle (Agile and Waterfall)
• Familiarity with tools used to track test cases and defect management such as HP ALM and JIRA.
• Background in Financial Services (Preferred)