Sr IT Testing Specialist (Remote)

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Senior IT Testing Specialists provide leadership and technical guidance to test teams and has accountability across multiple functions and create test deliverables (for example, strategies, plans and test cases) and performs hands-on testing for internally developed or external purchased products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for ensuring end to end testing methodology including all appropriate documentation and requirements.
• Advocate for customer providing coordination/input throughout entire Software Development Life Cycle for quality, usability, and any gaps in system layout, features and designs.
• Works with development team to schedule, execute and test design enhancements evaluating and recommending quality improvements.
• Provides leadership and technical guidance to test team. Mentors and coaches' other IT Testing Specialists.
• Identifies tests that are good candidates for automation, executes automated test scripts and works with developers to create automated tests.
• Develops suitable test techniques using an automated approach. Create automated test scripts for sprints.
• Update automated test scripts, after a sprint is complete.
• Proactively identifies gaps in the business process and coordinates resolution across IT and or business teams.
• Makes recommendations on scope, timelines, and assists management with capacity planning.
• Forecasts and estimates testing related work.
• Creates a test approach, identifying scope of testing with risk-based approach for each feature or scope of work in a project effort identifying test environments, dependencies, constraints, prioritizing test cases and scheduling time for the testing
• Identifies approaches for risk-based testing for each feature or scope of work in a project effort and prioritizes test execution to test high risk/high impact scenarios first.
• Accountability across multiple functions and teams including facilitation/coordination with external customers and vendors, creating, and executing complex tests across multiple platforms.
• Creates and executes complex SQL queries.
• Sets up software and hardware in the test lab, per specs.
• Ensures test results are accurate, thorough, and appropriately documented.
• Communicates results and coordinates logistics to the Systems Analysts, Developers, and other key IT staff and leadership as appropriate.
• Participates in requirements gathering sessions or solicits information on incomplete requirements.
• Participates in facilitation and coordination of user acceptance testing.
• Aid in the definition/refinement of stories (business requirements) by helping to derive usage scenarios and acceptance test criteria.

Minimum Requirements

• 4+ years related work experience in business and/or system testing.

• Experience creating test scripts and execute automated test scripts as needed.
• Provides leadership and technical guidance to QA team.
• In-depth understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle processes with an emphasis on testing methodologies.
• Experience in an Agile environment and working on Agile-based/Agile-Waterfall Hybrid development projects.
• In-depth experience in system testing techniques.
• Thorough understanding of As-Is and To-Be business processes and able to relate and link system flows and identify any gaps if they exist.
• Experience linking test cases to business flows to ensure proper business process coverage.
• Experience communicating with the business in business language and with developers in technical language and can act as a bridge between them.
• Expert proficiency with test management tools.
• Good understanding of the overall architecture of systems under test and their interfaces.
• Experience extract data utilizing complex SQL queries.
• Experience creating or manipulate various system input/output files like XML, Flat, 834, 835 etc., for testing purposes.
• Experience in identify data requirements and define test data strategies for the respective test efforts.
• Thorough understanding of what interfaces systems under test are connected to how they are connected.
• Ability to stub out testing for specific interfaces as needed due to dependencies.
• Ability to uncover requirement and design gaps in use cases, TDD, SAD documents, Crosswalks etc., and help identify possible resolutions
• Related Bachelor's degree or additional related equivalent work experience IT related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Scrum master certification or equivalent
• Experience in a full range of Scrum, XP, and Lean practices

General Physical Demands:

Sedentary work: Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally to move objects. Jobs are sedentary if traversing activities are required only occasionally.

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