Junior QA Analyst

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent education
• Ability to proactively plan out quality assurance approach based on business requirements
• Able to plan and develop test cases for full requirement testing coverage
• Proven analytical and problem solving skills and experience
• Able to persevere - willing to ask the right questions with the tenacity to ensure an answer is provided
• Must have the enthusiasm for the quality assurance process in a development environment and approach QA from the end-user perspective
• Must be organized, detailed oriented, and have effective time management in order to add value to multiple projects simultaneously
• Must have well developed written and verbal communication skills
• Must have well developed interpersonal skills, and be flexible and tactful in negotiation to quickly resolve issues.


Nice to have

• Financial background
• Active directory/LDAP knowledge and experience
• Webservices knowledge and experience
• Experience with OLAP, SQL, Relational database programming
• Understanding and experience with QA Automation tool(s) including coding/scripting

Required

* Bachelor's Degree
* English: Fluent


IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Actively participate in SDLC by providing quality related feedback
• Provide feasible work estimates based on all QA activities related to a particular project or individual assignment
• Act as a liaison between the technical and business sides of the project team
• Use business and functional specifications to build QA design and create test strategy, test plans, test cases
• Determine test strategies for integration, functional, regression testing, performance, load and stress testing
• Lead document review of test plan and test cases
• Conduct blackbox/whitebox, automated and manual testing throughout lifecycle
• Participate in release management meetings, provide testing stats on the test coverage and number of bugs found to determine the release readiness of a project
• Own the lifecycle of issues/bugs being recorded, tracked, resolved and closed
• Effectively communicate regarding QA issues based on acquired knowledge and be persuasive in addressing findings

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