Quality Assurance Analyst

Blue Spire Inc is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business-process outsourcing services. We are dedicated to helping clients grow through our combined business-IT knowledge, thoughtful innovation and dedicated workforce. The QA Analyst develops and executes software test plans to identify software problems and their causes, working closely with developers, product/project managers and other team members to define, prioritize and communicate testing requirements, test results and the status of QA related tasks.

Requirements

• BS Degree in CS or MIS or equivalent experience in related roles
• Five (5) years software testing experience with regression testing, integration testing, load and performance testing
• Two (2) years in a Software Quality Assurance role
• Experience writing black box and GUI test cases, designing tests to mitigate risks and helping business experts define requirements
• Experience with Enterprise and knowledge of the education system
• At least one year of experience with scripting languages (JavaScript), and/or open source test tools (Fit, FitNesse, Canoo WebTest, HtmlUnit or others) and/or commercial test tool scripting languages and/or programming in any language
• Knowledge of and experience with TFS and MS Test and test automation
• Experience collaborating with programmers and business experts
• Experience in context-based, exploratory, or scenario testing
• Experience with testing of web services
• Extensive backend testing, understands data mapping, ETL and write complex SQL/Procs

Benefits

• Challenging and enjoyable work environment
• Opportunity to grow and develop skills
• Collaborative and distributed team environment