Senior SQA Analyst

Seeking a senior-level SQA Analyst to support the Common Exam Platform (CEP) technology delivery and testing efforts. This position is vital to ensuring that the technological platform underpinning our bank examination duties enables us to meet our supervision and regulation requirements efficiently and effectively, thereby ensuring a safe and sound banking system.

Key Activities

• Analyzes, designs, tests, and delivers technology solutions for business areas and implements 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.

  
  

Qualifications

• 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 subject.

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

• Strong preference for candidates possessing testing skills and experience with agile, cloud-based delivery in close alignment with the application development team.

• Experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) a plus

• Demonstrate growth mindset and learning agility

• Excellent problem-solving skills, strong written and verbal communication, and ability to effectively balance constraints and priorities to ensure team commitments are met

• Strong interpersonal skills - seek to understand different perspectives; demonstrate openness and respect for diverse views, help build and maintain a healthy team dynamic

• Strong initiative and teamwork

• 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

• Strong understanding of test automation best practices and can architect, develop, and debug medium to complex level automation scripts

• Understanding of the software development process and major technology terms

• Experience working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting a teamwork mentality

• Experience working in a low code no code development platform - Appian is a plus.

• Experience working in low code no code test automation tool – AccelQ is a plus.

  
  

Additional Information

How We Work:

• On-site, full-time with 5 days per month remote work flexibility

• Locations: Kansas City, Denver, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Dallas

  
  

Citizenship Requirements: United States citizenship or lawful permanent resident alien status with at least three (3) or more years of United States residency from the date of legal entry to the United States is required for this position.