Homeoffice QA Analyst III- Contract

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Who We Are:

As the global leader in third party maintenance, our 2500 Park Place Associates provide support to 21,000+ customers in more than 154+ countries. We are proud to service 90% of Fortune 500 companies and 40% of Forbes 100 clients.

Our company’s strength and success are a credit to our Associates, and Park Place Life is how we communicate and deliver our culture internally. We have been awarded as a NorthCoast 99 “Best Workplace” winner for 10 consecutive years in recognition of our employee commitment. Park Place Life is about collaboration, responsiveness, diversity, and integrity, and represents everything that makes our company great and our culture unique.

Top Rated Benefits We Offer:

• A competitive salary
• A generous annual leave entitlement- 25 days, increasing by 1 day every 2 years of service up to 30 days
• Enhanced paternity & maternity pay
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle scheme
• Health cash plan and private medical insurance including dental
• 4x Life assurance
• Fitness reimbursement
• Access to Employee Assistance Program

Position Overview:

Quality Assurance Analyst III

The Quality Assurance Analyst III works directly with other testers, developers, business analysts and key business stakeholders and will be responsible for the manual testing of internal products as well as integrations to 3rd party products. You will also be responsible for developing and writing formal test plans and all test cases required for the validation of products before they go into production. Additionally, you will be responsible for coordinating testing efforts on projects with internal and contract teams and for regularly reporting project quality status updates. Must have hands on software testing experience and possess a solid understanding of quality assurance best practices, a working knowledge of Business Process workflow and a solid understanding of the SDLC.

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for implementation and compliance monitoring of new quality procedures
• Assist in training and coaching more junior testers in quality best practices, troubleshooting and reporting issues as well as performing risk assessment on found issues
• Providing all appropriate information to business helping them to ascertain the severity and priority of reported issues
• Design and author appropriate test plans, test cases and test workflows for assigned products
• Able to prioritize testing tasks aligning with project priorities
• Able to determine and define appropriate regression tests necessary for individual product releases
• Able to create and author test cases appropriate to hand off to test engineers for automation of tests
• Able to run and analyze results of automated tests
• Prescribe testing and product validation processes in conjunction with development
• Interact with appropriate teams on complex designs to ensure tests give accurate, complete and appropriate coverage
• Ensure test repositories are kept up to date by adding and updating tests, in addition to making sure other testers do the same
• Ensure test management procedures are being followed and take corrective action or escalation occurs where needed
• Collaborate with teams and participate in planning of UAT prior to product launches
• Participate in UAT by assisting end users in troubleshooting, replicating and facilitating resolution for issues found during testing, and validating any fixes required
• Facilitate coaching and training for non-QA team members regarding quality processes
• Provide timely and accurate status reports to appropriate stakeholders
• Be a strong problem solver and possess an excellent work ethic and attitude
• Collaborate, share and learn from team members and actively follow all team processes
• Function as an excellent team player that can make significant contributions individually as well as a part of the team
• Demonstrate willingness to work on your craft and take initiative in learning new skills
• Effectively communicate both orally and in writing
• Other duties as assigned

What we’re looking for:

• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in hands on manual software testing.
• Experience in designing, authoring and communicating formal test plans, test scenarios, test cases and use cases.
• Experience in the implementation of a quality process.
• Experience in standard software quality release cycles.
• Experience in trouble shooting issues, problem resolution and risk analysis for product deployment.
• Experience is training others on quality standards and processes and providing positive feedback to a team on following standards when necessary.
• Must have an eye for detail.

Bonus Points:

• Agile experience.
• Successful leadership of a test team.
• Experience with designing and coding automated tests.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering or equivalent work experience.

Travel:

• Up to 10%

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Park Place Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

Park Place Technologies has an in-house recruiting team that focuses exclusively on the hiring needs of our company. We are not currently accepting additional third-party agreements or unsolicited resumes. If you would like to be considered as a preferred partner with Park Place Technologies, please submit your detailed information to careers@parkplacetech.com. Any CVs submitted directly to hiring managers will be considered unsolicited and become the property of Park Place Technologies.