Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst (State Street Bank and Trust Company; Burlington, MA): The Senior Quality Assurance Analyst will work as a member of a Scrum team leading the overall quality planning and execution for one of Charles River’s products. Provide support and assistance to customers, team members, and other teams within Charles River. Specific duties of the position include: Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, developers, business analysts and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team; Create comprehensive test plans with well defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents; Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests; Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing; Document software defects in the issue tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members; Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team’s QA methodology; Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery; Actively participate in the Agile software development process by adhering to the CRD Scrum methodology including attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives; Participate in group testing activities as needed; and Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation and planning of test processes. Hybrid-remote telecommuting permitted pursuant to Company policy.

Minimum Requirements: Master’s degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical course of study; plus 3 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Analyst or any occupation providing experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment. Alternatively, will accept the following: Bachelor’s degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical course of study; plus 5 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Analyst or any occupation providing experience in software testing in a process driven technology environment.

Must have: Demonstrated solid knowledge and ability with the following: Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multitier applications; Demonstrated ability translating business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans; Proven Effective written and verbal communication; Proven expertise in creating and running Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server structured query language queries; Proven expertise in creating testcases using API level programming techniques; and Proven expertise with project management software to track features and develop, store and execute testcases. (Unless otherwise indicated, State Street is seeking the stated ability in the skills listed above with no specific number of years or amount of experience required. All experience can be gained concurrently.)

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