Our Columbus, Ohio client has a contract need for an experienced and ambitious Quality Assurance Specialist to join the team. As a Quality Assurance Specialist contractor, you will be responsible for ensuring quality and verifying that the developed solution meets the business requirements. You will write the automated test strategy, plan and scripts, and, for each application, schedule the tests for execution.

Responsibilities will also include to monitor, measure, control and report on testing progress, product quality status, test results, adapting the test plan and compensating as needed to adjust to evolving conditions. This position will function as a highly skilled Quality Assurance Specialist with responsibilities that include:

• Lead and participate in establishing automated testing solutions

• Design, execute and maintain automated test scripts

• Develop and maintain: requirements traceability matrices, system test plans, system test scenarios, regression test plans and test scripts (both manual and automated) based on software requirements and technical specifications

• Construct workflow charts and diagrams; study system capabilities; write and refine regression test plans

• Document and report test results

• Assist with the analysis of the results of automated test scripts

• Assist with the analysis of bug fixes/issues, with ability to lead small groups of IT and business staff for troubleshooting, problem resolution and brainstorming for available solutions

• Lead and participate in system testing and ensure solutions meet business needs and requirements prior to user acceptance testing

• Participate in defining system implementation and user-acceptance test plans

• Work closely with QA Manager and Project Managers to ensure successful project delivery

Experience:

• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking skills

• Exceptional skills in automated testing

• Experience mentoring QA Analysts

• Demonstrated ability to communicate difficult concepts to non-technical users

• Demonstrated fluency in business processes

• Ability to analyze and synthesize business requirements

• Experience with process mapping

• Excellent documentation skills

• Experience creating detailed reports and giving presentations

• Excellent planning, organizational, and time management skills

• Strong oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills

Mandatory Requirements:

• 4 year college degree in computer information systems or equivalent technical study

• 6+ years of QA testing experience with industry standard quality assurance methodologies, verification and validation processes

• 3+ years of business process analysis

• Hands-on experience with test automation development in industry test automation framework (Selenium preferred)

• Hands-on experience in test automation design and development involving GUI, API and back-end database verification

• Experience with Continuous Integration testing tools

• Experience with automated mobile testing utilizing cloud-based solutions

• Competency in Microsoft applications including Visio, Word, Excel