IT Test Analyst II

Our story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to “Be Alight.”

Our Values:

Champion People – be empathetic and help create a place where everyone belongs.

Grow with purpose – Be inspired by our higher calling of improving lives.

Be Alight – act with integrity, be real and empower others.

It’s why we’re so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team’s expertise in human insights and cloud technology gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.

Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.

Learn more at careers.alight.com. 

The individual will be involved in the following critical activities:

• Create and run functional, integration, regression, and ad-hoc, and test cases; including both positive and negative scenarios
• Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans for functional, integration and regression testing.
• Perform integration and functional testing for code delivered by the development team during each sprint.
• Become a reference for the QA team for integrations and their configurations.
• Participate in sprint planning and story creation to identify items that will need to be resolved prior to testing
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts and project management teams to develop, publish and implement software quality assurance plans along with appropriate KPIs
• Work closely with onshore and offshore testers to ensure testing deliverables are met
• Follow standard QA methodologies to ensure the delivery of quality products.
• Log and report defects and escalate issues
• Work to meet project schedules, timelines and deadlines
• Experience with Test Management tools (a plus)
• Support business users in UAT activities for all major and minor releases.
• Support once a month weekend production validation for all major releases
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive nature, with a strong work ethic and eagerness to take initiative and go the extra mile.

The ideal experience and critical competencies for the role include the following:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in functional testing of applications on different platforms, browsers and devices.
• Experience with HTTP and REST
• Experience with SQL and Database /backend testing with large volumes of data
• Experience with Integration and Regression testing
• Experience and knowledge of Agile test management process and methodologies
• Experience with product development and testing life cycles including test approach and test case reviews.
• Experience creating and maintaining test suites and cases in Test Plans.
• Familiarity with web app/SAAS/Paas software development, Cloud computing solutions and working knowledge of any Relational Database and DB Queries
• Professional experience with software lifecycle management in a fast-paced software environment
• The applicant must also have: Defect management experience and Test Life Cycle Management, any period of experience creating and reviewing of Testing Artifacts right from Test Strategy through Test completion report.
• Must have working knowledge of DevOps Principles and Practices (CI, CD, Continuous Testing, etc.)

We offer you a competitive total rewards package, continuing education & training, and tremendous potential with a growing worldwide organization.
 

DISCLAIMER:

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job to other entities; including but not limited to subsidiaries, partners, or purchasers of Alight business units.

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