Quality Assurance Consultant

USDC•Pennington, NJ

23h•Onsite

About The Position

Genesis10 is seeking a Quality Specialist for a contract opportunity with a Global Financial Institution. This role involves testing complex software to meet business outcomes, ensuring it meets functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. The specialist will be responsible for test data management, manual and automated test execution, results reporting, and defect triaging.

Requirements

Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework & Jira
Ability to design and develop manual and automated test plans within an application
Basic knowledge of automation and continuous delivery practices
Experience testing Microsoft 365 products, services, and business flows
Understanding of architecture and corporate standards to support testing of architecture designs and implementations
Excellent action management, prioritization, written and verbal communication skills
Strong analytical skills and use of testing tools to report and track defects
Understanding of risks and ability to apply controls necessary to mitigate them
A basic understanding of the following technologies and architectures: M365 Teams & Skype, M365 OneDrive & SharePoint Online, M365 Power Apps & Automate, Microsoft Exchange + Exchange Online, M365 licensing and infrastructure, M365 Defender, Email message routing, and M365 Intune

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of IT service management principles and requirements
Up to date with the latest corporate policies, standards, and security baselines
Ability to define, create, and optimize processes based on requirements
Basic understanding of financial data and data management practices and technologies
Basic understanding of experience design principles

Responsibilities

Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements
Lead test planning, usually at a team level, ensuring stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria
Ensure in-scope and out-of-scope items are clearly identified during test planning
Implement the team's test framework and lead test case reviews with subject matter experts
Identify automation opportunities, help condition and generate test data, and ensure data compliance requirements are met
Execute manual and automated test cases, record results, and report issues and defects
Participate in triaging reported issues/defects and assist with resolving or escalating them as necessary
Create and manage traceability, tracing tests through the development lifecycle back to requirements
Use testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment
Maintain and catalogue test suites across test types (Smoke, Integration, Regression, etc)