Senior QA Analyst

Location: Nashville, TN / or within approximately 1 hour / Hybrid

Employment Type: Full Time W-2 with benefits

Overview

We are seeking a Senior QA Analyst to support high-quality software delivery while helping advance QA practices across the organization. This role combines hands-on testing with the opportunity to drive QA process improvement and promote a culture of quality across cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead QA efforts across projects ensuring comprehensive test coverage
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Perform manual testing across functional, regression, performance, and security areas
• Identify, track, and manage defects through resolution
• Collaborate with product, development, and business teams to ensure quality outcomes
• Participate in requirements and code reviews to assess testability and risk
• Analyze results and provide QA metrics and reporting
• Drive continuous improvement of QA processes and methodologies
• Promote QA best practices
• Facilitate QA activities including test planning and defect triage
• Ensure compliance with industry and regulatory standards
• Support end-user training and adoption of new features

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field, or equivalent experience
• 5 years of QA experience including senior or lead responsibilities
• From scratch, develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts
• Strong expertise in manual testing and QA methodologies
• Experience creating structured test strategies and documentation
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Experience working in Agile and/or hybrid environments

Preferred Qualifications

• Support test automation efforts using modern tools and frameworks
• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium or JUnit
• Experience in the utility or regulated industry