QA Analyst at LRS

Looking for more than just another assignment? We're looking for you! This isn't just another assignment, but a real opportunity and a challenge for the right person. LRS Consulting Services is seeking a QA Analyst for a 6-month contract to hire opportunity with our client in Wellesley, MA or Reston, VA! 

LRS Consulting Services has been delivering the highest quality consultants to our clients since 1979. We've built a solid reputation for dealing with our clients and our consultants with honesty, integrity, and respect. We work hard every day to maintain that reputation, and we're very interested in candidates who can help us. If you're that candidate, this opportunity is made for you!

The QA Analyst will:

• Be responsible for leading QA efforts related to customer implementations of software platforms.

• Work closely with project managers, product managers, business analysts, application consultants, UX designers, and software developers within an agile software development framework to plan and execute integration testing and UAT.

• Review product requirements, functional specs, and design specifications to create comprehensive test cases.

• Provide accurate estimates and status updates on QA deliverables such as test plans and test execution.

• Define exit/entry criteria for project testing gates (unit, integration, acceptance).

• Participate in the creation and upkeep of automated tests.

• Lead QA efforts related to new customer implementations and work closely with Project Managers to validate our hosted products.

• Provide regular updates on the status of implementations, open issues and potential risks.

• Submit bugs that are easy to reproduce and understand and verify fixes in a timely manner.

• Perform functional, system, regression and performance tests as needed.

• Effectively communicate with remote and local team members.

• Communicate project risks as soon as possible and offer viable mitigation strategies.

• Partner with project managers, developers, and analysts within the program team and across the Product Development team to manage and continually improve the test practice.

• Work with the support organization to quickly resolve customer issues.

• Define and govern test environment management.

Requirements:

• 5+ years’ experience in a similar QA role

• 5+ year’s prior experience in Quality Assurance working with web-based and enterprise application software

• Experience with Agile methodology and working within Agile methodology and working within Agile development teams  

• Experience creating and maintaining functional, regression, integration and user acceptance test suites

• Experience developing and maintaining automated and performance test scripts

• Strong experience documenting, designing and developing test plans and test strategies

• Previous experience working with automated testing tools

• Experience implementing test documentation and issue tracking standards within IT organizations

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines

• Strong candidates will have experience in the Energy industry

• Candidate must be able to effectively communicate in English (written & verbal)

LRS is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants for employment will receive consideration without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, gender identity, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, citizenship status or protected veteran status.