Senior Software Testing Engineer/ Quality Assurance Specialist

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: Senior Software Testing Engineer/ Quality Assurance Specialist

Location(s): Washington, DC (Remote)

Seeking for a Senior Software Testing Engineer/ Quality Assurance Specialist with demonstrated experience in software testing in agile and waterfall development lifecycles.

Responsibilities:

• Define testing strategies for specific projects/releases to ensure that it is up to best practices and company standards
• Create test plans and test execution plans, ensuring that the team meets the deadlines outlined in those plans.
• Evaluate projects thought the life of the project and identify areas where improvement can be made
• Report to upper management, including report progress, plans, risks and issues.
• Evaluates, generates, executes, and maintains a full test library with test scenarios to ensure requirements coverage and regression coverage with positive and negative testing in line with Ampcus processes and procedures.
• Author test cases (manual) for internal and external clientele.
• As directed, lead meetings including defect management calls.
• Execute tests (manual)
• Distributes, Communicates, and Manages QA project(s) across the QA team
• As requested, writes End User Release Notes and Technical Documentation generated with accuracy, completeness, and overall quality.
• Provide estimation of tasks, and on-time delivery against stated schedules

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree or higher in Computer Information Systems or related field and/or an ISTQB certification
• At least 3 years' worth of leading projects and 10 years' quality assurance experience
• Ability to evaluate, write test cases, test plans, and test scenarios
• Detailed oriented. High defect/bug finder when it comes to executing manual tests of software applications.
• Experience in working in an agile SDLC.
• Experience in writing test cases for end users, user acceptance test participants and/or or business.
• Must have a strong command of the English language and writing acumen.
• Must be able to read and interpret business requirements and read/write technical specification documents.
• Should have a basic understanding of source control/configuration management.
• Must understand Software Quality Assurance best standards and practices.
• Must be able to demonstrate individual and teamwork effort in collaborative processes.
• Requires the ability to read and interpret technical documents and write a variety of business and technical documents. May include doing presentations on team activities.

At least 10 years' experience in:

• Creating Test Plans
• Creating Test Scenarios
• Creating Test Cases to be used as part of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for external clientele
• One of these industries or equivalent: Capital Markets, Mortgage Backed Securities, Financial
• Tools: JIRA, Microsoft Office
• Extreme Proficiency in the English Language is a MUST : Must be able to independently write materials for publication on public websites and use by client stakeholders and end users.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications:

• Data Testing including SQL
• Certificates in Agile, Project Management or ISTQB

Desired Skills and Qualifications:

• Experience in an Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) team
• Knowledge of Azure, AWS
• Knowledge of PeopleSoft
• Microsoft Visio/Diagramming Solution
• Automation Testing