Delan Associates is looking for ITS professionals Quality Analyst for our client located in the New York City area.

U.S. Citizenship is required.

Location: Must live in the New York City area

Contract Period of Performance : 1-3 years long (1 year with (two) additional years to renew)

Overview:

The company ITS is a full-service provider of information technology services. ITS provides The company with centralized network services that will encompass, but will not be limited to, systems development / design, security analysis, information processing, telecommunications and data center support services, data communications infrastructure, platform hosting, an e-mail system, internet and intranet access data security and exchange, desktop/client support, help desk, project management, applications development and quality assurance.

The company's hardware and software platforms include, but are not limited to, IBM and UNISYS mainframe, Microsoft Windows client servers and SUN/UNIX.

ITS requires assignments to be completed within a specific time frame provided by ITS during normal work hours. The consultants assigned to these positions may be asked to work off-hours, weekends, or holidays. ITS estimates the various assignments associated with a position will be worked simultaneously and will be required over the life of the contract.

PROJECT NAME: IT Development and Management

HRA JOB TITLE: Quality Analyst

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Company has a constant increased need for the provision of full systems life cycle applications development on various computer platforms, including a variety of client eligibility and recertification systems, employment/work engagement services, claims systems, etc., that are critical to the operation and functioning of company programs, requiring periodic refinements to maintain the applications at optimum service levels. Having a project portfolio which properly reflects the user's business needs and companies workload is crucial. Therefore, there is a need for IT consulting resources for the expanding responsibilities.

Tasks & Duties

• Initiate and implement testing
• Identify user stories and translate them into Test cases as required
• Create Test cases vs. RTM Matrix against the user stories to support application development
• Ensure that the application development is according to the quality assurance standards
• Execute Integration test cases covering all integration points with other applications
• Coordinate defect triage calls with design and development team.
• Coordinate with UAT team on UAT test strategy, and UAT test data.
• Coordinate UAT defect triage calls with UAT team
• Help team with performance testing
• Identify test automation scenarios
• Facilitate Postproduction verification for various releases
• Provide Management Reporting and Information dissemination
• Analyze and document current systems and processes as currently implemented.
• Make recommendations for improvements based on client feedback
• Work directly with business stakeholders, clients, designers, developers, and engineers to coordinate the building of applications to spec and on time
• Managing QA team activities – QA effort estimations, task allocations, creation of QA status JIRA dashboards and reports, facilitating QA signoff on meeting the defined exit criteria

Required Skills

• Minimum 4 Years Experience with QA Methodology and QA Validations to ensure the Quality Assurance Control. Expertise in QA process well acquainted with all phases of SDLC and STLC and had experience in testing very complicated applications. Hands-on Experience in Agile Scrum and Waterfall Software Development Lifecycle.
• Minimum 4 Years Expertise in working with Selenium Web Driver using TestNG java framework. Expertise in writing Java script in Eclipse IDE and expertise in inheritance, concatenation and all OOPS concept. Hands-on Experience on developing a framework using a design pattern - Page Object Model.
• Minimum 4 Years Experience in testing Middleware technologies Web Services (SOAP, REST) Testing using SOAPUI. Good experience in validating XML and XML Schema, XML Parser. Worked on cross browser IE, Firefox and Chrome Driver. Hands-on experience in writing own CSS Selectors, Xpath expressions to identify web elements. Techniques to automate Ajax calls, Child Windows and IFrames.
• Minimum 4 Years Hands-on experience Working with TestNG for Automation testing Reports. Hands-on experience on Working with Jenkins for Automation continue integration, job scheduling and configuration. Extensive experience GITLAB as version control tool. Experience in Performance testing using JMETER, LOADRUNNER.