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
Reference : Software Quality Assurance jobs
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