Position: Software Quality Assurance Analyst
Location: Chelsea, MA (Ideally Local to MA/NH/RI/CT)
Major Responsibilities:
Assists Quality Assurance Lead with execution of quality assurance
activities including but not limited to:
– Updating quality planning, process and execution materials and
maintaining quality assets on collaboration server
– Assuring process for updating, approving and versioning of
program-controlled documentation is followed
– Monitoring Software Development Lifecycle processes and identifying
SDLC workflow areas for improvement
– Facilitating process improvement sessions and following up on action
items
– Producing weekly status reports and program metrics at the project and
steering committee meeting level
– Assisting with Lessons Learned input and creation of summary materials
– Performing quality audits to ensure that the program processes and
associated work products adhere to the Software Development Life Cycle
– Reviewing program workplan for progress updates, dependencies and risk
avoidance
– Monitoring of SDLC tool set usage to assure workflows are followed
correctly and consistently and that traceability relationships are
properly maintained
– Auditing configuration management processes to assure adherence to
configuration management process and procedures
– Attending code reviews to assure proper use of checklists, adherence
to standards and design specifications
– Supporting continuous improvement and integration of quality assurance
best practices
– Fostering best practice adoption, creates appropriate tool set user
guides
– Attending / facilitating reviews such as progress checkpoints,
milestone reviews, and production readiness assessments
– Producing quality assurance progress reports and detailed summaries
– Participating in collaborative sessions such as defect triage and
daily stand ups
Experience Required
– Quality Management experience associated with planning, presentation
materials and tracking corrective actions to resolution
– Experience creating Quality Assurance job aids such as checklists,
templates, workflows evaluation criteria, meeting minutes, action items etc.
– Experience reviewing and mentoring creation of work products
associated with project management, business analysis, configuration
management, development and testing to ensure assets are created with high
degree of quality
– Data Analysis skills needed to create custom reports (SQL, Pivot
Tables, Formulas, VLOOKUP, Macros, VBA, Charts & Dashboards)
– Reporting skills including charts, tables, diagrams, and trend analysis
– Demonstrated ability to facilitate virtual meeting space and/or
conference calls with screen sharing
Experience Desired
– Computer Science degree
– Rational SDLC tool set certification or super user
– Broad knowledge of quality assurance practices and techniques
Expertise with the following tools or tool types:
– Rational Team Concert, Quality Manager and Requirements Composer
– Microsoft Tools
– MS Project
– Power Point
– Excel
– Visio or workflow/ use case modeling tools
– Data query tools
– Tableau
Skills Needed:
– Excellent interpersonal skills necessary to interact effectively with
architects, developers, testers, business analysts and project managers.
– Demonstrated ability to facilitate virtual meeting space and/or
conference calls with screen sharing
– Flexibility to meet timelines generally associated with program
deadlines (including off hours)
– Attention to detail and organizational skills needed to maintain,
archive and retrieve quality assets efficiently
– Highly analytical, needs to independently analyze data and be
confident with findings / trend analysis
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Reference : Quality Assurance Analyst jobs
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