What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Analyst position at Solomons International?

Summary of Role: Seeking an experienced QA Test Analyst with expertise in manual and automation testing to support mission-critical enterprise applications for Connecticut residents. This role has a significant focus on testing and validating Spanish-language functionality and content, requiring professional proficiency in both English and Spanish. The tester will independently review Spanish-language content for functional accuracy, consistency, completeness, and alignment with approved English requirements. This role collaborates with business stakeholders, developers, BAs, architects, project managers, and technical teams to ensure applications meet requirements, specifications, and regulations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform hands-on manual and automated testing across multiple enterprise applications.
- Perform dedicated testing and validation of Spanish-language application functionality and resident-facing content.
- Compare Spanish-language functionality and content against approved English requirements and expected business outcomes.
- Validate Spanish screens, correspondence, notices, messages, forms, labels, instructions, and application workflows.
- Develop comprehensive test scenarios, test cases, and automated test scripts based on business and technical requirements, specifically addressing Spanish-language functionality.
- Review business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, technical documentation, and design documents.
- Participate in requirements walkthroughs, sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and design review sessions.
- Estimate testing effort and provide input into project planning and release schedules.
- Execute functional, regression, integration, system, API, and end-to-end testing activities.
- Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using approved automation frameworks.
- Validate interfaces and integrations between enterprise applications and external systems.
- Perform backend database validation using SQL queries.
- Execute API and web service testing using industry-standard tools.
- Document test execution results and communicate testing progress.
- Identify, document, prioritize, and manage software defects through resolution, clearly documenting Spanish-language defects.
- Participate in defect triage meetings and validate software fixes.
- Ensure complete traceability between business requirements, test cases, and executed tests through the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, architects, project managers, vendors, and State business stakeholders.
- Support production implementations by performing release validation and post-production verification.
- Assist in continuously improving QA standards, automation frameworks, testing processes, and quality best practices.
Required Qualifications:
- Five (5) or more years of Quality Assurance experience testing large enterprise applications.
- Strong hands-on manual testing experience.
- Experience with test automation and automated testing frameworks.
- Professional working proficiency in English and Spanish sufficient to perform Spanish-language application and content validation.
- Experience working throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Strong understanding of Quality Assurance methodologies, testing processes, and best practices.
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience working directly with business stakeholders and technical teams.
- Ability to interpret business requirements and convert them into detailed test scenarios and test cases.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments.
- Experience using Jira for defect tracking and Agile project management.
- Strong attention to detail, particularly when comparing English and Spanish application content.
Technical Qualifications:
- Experience with technologies such as Selenium, TestNG, Java, Salesforce application testing, REST API Testing, SOAP Web Services, Postman, SQL for backend data validation, Mobile Application Testing, Progressive Web Applications (PWA), JSON/XML validation, Git, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) concepts.
- Strong understanding of API and Web Service Testing, Test Automation Frameworks, Defect Lifecycle Management, Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM), Test Planning, Test Strategy, Test Estimation.
Testing Experience:
- Hands-on experience performing Manual Testing, Automation Testing, Functional Testing, Regression Testing, Smoke Testing, Integration Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), End-to-End Testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), API Testing, Backend Data Validation, Cross-browser Testing, Mobile Testing, Salesforce Testing, Defect Verification and Retesting, and Multilingual or localized application testing (preferably involving Spanish-language content).
Preferred Experience & Business Knowledge:
- Experience testing complex enterprise systems within State government, Human Services, Healthcare, Medicaid, Medicare, or Eligibility programs.
- Understanding of policy-driven applications and business terminology used in public-sector environments.
- Strong preference for experience with Connecticut DSS, State Government agencies, Integrated Eligibility Systems, Healthcare payer systems, Salesforce implementations, Human Services applications, Enterprise Case Management systems, Federal compliance initiatives, Healthcare eligibility systems, Spanish-language or multilingual software testing, and localization testing.
- Knowledge of Medicaid/Medicare programs, Money Follows the Person (MFP), eligibility determination processes, healthcare terminology, Human Services operations, Federal and State compliance requirements, benefits administration systems, policy-driven business rules, and regulatory compliance testing.
Soft Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Exceptional analytical and critical-thinking abilities.
- Ability to work independently and within cross-functional teams.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Commitment to delivering high-quality software.
- Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Willingness to learn complex business processes and regulations.
- Ability to communicate Spanish-language testing findings clearly to project stakeholders.

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