GOVX is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to join our team. This position works closely with our development team and internal stakeholders to ensure our applications are performant, easy to use, and defect free.
Responsibilities
- Participate in our agile development process and own end to end sprint testing. Duties include helping refine user stories, enhancing acceptance criteria, and representing testing effort during grooming.
- Execute test plans during all stages of development, from initial development to regression testing and hot fix deployment validation.
- Reproduce and log bugs as well as any feature changes. Includes diagnosing bugs reported by internal users and analyzing production issues captured in various logging platforms (e.g. Application Insights, SQL, etc.)
- Participate in identifying and managing defects and communicating any release schedule impacts.
- Develop and maintain reusable test cases, scripts, and test scenarios for functional, regression, and performance testing.
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for functional, performance, and regression testing.
- Analyze and troubleshoot test script execution issues and test results.
- Maintain and improve existing automation test suites.
Requirements
- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Hands on experience with scripting/coding (e.g. C#, PowerShell).
- Hands on experience with database queries (e.g. TSQL, MSSQL, CosmosDB)
- Testing experience in an agile development environment (e.g. SCRUM/XP/Kanban) with experience writing acceptance criteria for user stories.
- Detailed knowledge of application functions, bug fixing, and testing protocols.
- Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, test strategy, and test execution.
- Demonstrated leadership on emerging quality assurance methodologies and best practices.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills. Must possess ability to interact with peers in a high-bandwidth and collaborative fashion.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as under management supervision.
- Experience or exposure to Azure DevOps and JIRA is a plus.
Preferred Education/Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery teams
- Experience with Visual Studio and C#
- Experience with .NET Core
- Experience with RESTful API testing using gRPC or ASP.NET Web API
- Experience with Mercurial/Git
- Experience MS SQL Server 2017+
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no supervisory responsibilities.
Travel
No travel is expected for this position.
Work Experience
This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. This role occasionally must lift and carry the office equipment.
Physical/Mental Demands
Physical - This is largely a sedentary role.
Mental - Problem solving, making decisions, interpret data, organize, read/write.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Location
Due to state law and tax implications, remote work candidates must live and work in one of the following states: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, or New York. No relocation assistance or visa sponsorship will be provided.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Position will require successful completion of a background check and drug testing prior to starting employment.
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off, Paid Sick Leave, Paid Holidays
- 401(k) plan with discretionary match available
- Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Account (FSA), Health Savings Account (HSA)
- Voluntary benefits including Critical Illness, Group Accident, and Voluntary Life
- Employee Referral Program
- Gym on site.
- Collaborative work environment in a modern office, stocked with drinks and snacks.
- Lunch provided in office one day per week.
- Discounts on the GOVX website
Salary Range
$115,000.00 - $125,000.00 annually
AAP/EEO Statement
EOE. Ve