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Junior Quality Assurance Analyst | New York | Remote-Friendly | $60,000 - $70,000
We're working with Verisk on this exciting opportunity.
We are seeking a motivated and detail-oriented Junior Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst to join our UAT team and contribute to delivering high-quality software products. If you are looking for growth opportunities with an industry leader, Verisk is the place to be, with excellent opportunities to develop your technical and analytical skills within an Agile environment.
Key Responsibilities:
• Work closely with QA team members on multiple projects to execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for web and API-based applications.
• Design and improve how we write, store, update, and run UAT test cases, including regressions.
• Participate in manual and automated testing to validate software functionality, performance, and reliability.
• Assist in identifying, documenting, and tracking defects using tools such as Atlassian Jira.
• Support testing activities in Agile sprints, and join the agile team, attend their stand-ups, retrospectives, etc.
• Perform a variety of types of tests, functional, backend, data-driven, UAT, and Rest API testing.
What You'll Need:
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Basic understanding of software testing principles, test case design, and defect management.
• Exposure to web services testing (RESTful APIs) is a plus.
• Some Automation Experience is a plus such as JMeter, Postman or Python, Playwright.
• Some experience with XML, JSON, Web concepts such as REST APIs, HTTP Get and Post.
• Jira Experience to manage and track tasks.
What's On Offer:
• Health Insurance
• Retirement Plan
• Disability benefits
• Paid Time Off program
Apply via Haystack today!
Salary : $60,000 - $70,000