Quality Assurance Analyst

Yoh has a contract to hire opportunity for a Quality Assurance Analyst to join our client in the Chesterfield, MO area.

Job Overview:

Our client is a dedicated global team of analysts, software engineers, and quality assurance professionals who are looking for exceptional talent. They are looking for individuals with a can-do attitude who are able to adapt to a changing environment. We are currently undergoing an agile transformation. This will require critical thinking skills as it relates to testing software that is "emergent". As a member of the Test Services team, we look for you to help transform our QA function into a highly agile team focused on testing automation in a Scrum environment.

Job Responsibilities:

- Responsible for working with the project team to define the scope for testing within the context of each sprint/delivery
- Clearly communicate to relevant parties related to status of testing activities
- Comprehend user stories to understand task items per story in the context of all levels of testing (unit, functional, integration, and regression)
- Assist key business users (product owners) with backlog creation and grooming
- Strengthen the presence of our department as an Agile Center of Excellence
- Perform ad hoc/exploratory testing methodically to ensure system is working as expected by end user
- Track testing progress and defects via JIRA/Greenhopper
- Responsible for authoring automated test suites.
- Front End GUI via Java and Selenium Webdriver (Not Selenium IDE)/Sikuli
- Service layer testing using Java and Junit
- Backend SOAP XML using SOAP UI
- Ensure proper documentation related to testing deliverables and lessons learned
- Participate in the process to continually enhance best practices for quality assurance
- Please Note: The QA Automation Engineer will author Java code (automation is not record and playback)

Job Qualifications

- Four (4) year Bachelor degree, ideally in a technical discipline or five (5) years of experience in a technical industry as a quality assurance professional
- Good experience coding in Java is an absolute must for this position (Perl and C# are a plus but are not required)
- Excellent technical acumen and ability to learn new software quickly
- Enthusiastic and fun individual with an attitude of team empowerment
- Deep interest & curiosity for learning new things and doing things better
- Experience with testing in an Agile environment
- Good communication skills
- Strong knowledge of traditional testing methodologies and how it applies exploratory testing in an Agile environment
- Knowledge of test driven development and the virtues of unit testing

Discover all that's possible with Yoh. Apply now.

Recruiter: Steve Wamser

Yoh is a professional staffing provider with over 70 years of experience in the short- and long-term staffing services industry.

Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, M/F/D/V.

Tax Term: CON_HIRE_W2

J2W: INFOTECH

Ref: 1023090

Branch: IT & Telecom