Software Quality Analyst
The Software Quality Analyst position exists to ensure that software changes are tested and validated prior to releasing them into our production environment.  This position is responsible for the full QA lifecycle within an agile team.  Manual testing and automated testing skills are used in the functional and regression phases, based on the feature and the fit.  Additional skills in performance and security testing are required along with the capability to assess testing needs beyond the obvious.  

Experience and Technical Knowledge required:
•	Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
•	Minimum 3 years testing experience
•	Minimum 1 years of automation testing experience; descriptive programming
•	Analyst quality problem solving skills
•	Experience in strategizing and completing functional testing projects
•	Experience building feature and product based automated testing strategies
•	Experience writing automated test scripts, preferably with UFT
•	Experience in Automation (UFT) – specifically experience using descriptive programming to drive UFT.  (However, this is not a disqualifier)
•	Working knowledge of testing web services using SOAP UI 
•	Working knowledge of QA’s role within the Agile software development process
•	Working knowledge of database modeling and design; strong SQL / query skills

Managers insight: A successful candidate will have the following traits:
Collaboration – need someone who will collaborate well to determine what needs to be tested, and when attempting to resolve issues
Testing Mindset – need someone who ‘thinks like a QA Analyst’ – curious, questioning, driven to understand
Organized – needs someone who has the organizational skills to determine what needs to be tested, and document what has been tested

Employment salary hiring range: $80,000 - $95,000