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Federal Home Loan Bank Pittsburgh lists this Senior Testing Analyst opportunity in pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Position Summary
The Senior Testing Analyst will handle complex tasks and lead testing strategy for business systems. The position requires independent work to document business requirements, develop test strategies, and execute test plans. Responsibilities include adherence to the SDLC and producing project deliverables as needed.
Primary Success Factors
Develop and maintain testing strategy for the Bank based on industry standard Quality Assurance best practices
Leads the initiative to expand and transform Quality Assurance processes based on the testing strategy
Designs and executes detailed test plans and test cases to verify that the software meets requirements; identify problems and defects that should be corrected prior to implementation; ensure that the system delivers the required specifications; verify that the system responds in an acceptable manner within the Bank's network environment; perform regression testing to verify that all pre-existing code still works properly; utilize testing tools as necessary for defect tracking, automated testing, and simulated load testing
Coordinate with the infrastructure team to manage test environments and configurations
Participates as the members of scrum product teams
Creates and provide input to project plans as they pertain to testing requirements
Leads facilitated meetings with product teams and subject matter experts and ensure output is documented
Ensures preparation of testing documentation as required
Provide expertise on the tools for automation required for testing
Adhere to practices that maintain traceability from User stories to defects and resolutions
Ensure compliance with policies, procedures, and regulations to ensure safe and sound business operations
Works with project manager / program manager to help them in effort and cost estimation activity, project scheduling and planning and identifying risks and issues with project and suggesting mitigation alternatives.
Coach and inspire others into adopting a test-driven mindset
Ensure that test conditions and test scripts are created and validated for user acceptance testing
Supports user acceptance testing
When performing business analyst functions ensure that the system requirements or user stories and acceptance criteria are planned for, elicited, analyzed, validated, documented and reviewed.
Conducts tests utilizing AI tools and technologies.
Required Experience
Bachelor's degree in information systems / business administration or equivalent work experience; Master's degree preferred
Seven or more years of experience in information systems, with an emphasis on the requirements of life cycle, development, and testing
Seven or more years of experience leading testing efforts
Knowledge of requirements analysis techniques
Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
Knowledge of current best practices, methodologies, standards, and approaches to testing
Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
Technology Competency:
Automated test scripting utilizing tools such as Selenium
AI and API based testing is a plus
Perform vulnerability testing utilizing tools such as Qualys
Defect tracking software utilizing tools such as VersionOne
Simulated load testing utilizing tools such as JMeter
Experience with incorporating testing efforts with DevSecOps pipeline
Practical experience in Agile SDLC concepts
MS Office expertise
Familiarity with the following:
SAFe concepts
Continuous Integration tools such as GitActions
Oracle Database and PLSQL objects
GitHub and ability to execute deployment scripts
Techniques Competency:
Use case description and modeling, or "story" descriptions
Conversion of use cases to test scripts
Requirements management and traceability
Data analysis
Manual test case execution
Automated test case execution
Regression testing
It is the policy of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Pittsburgh to ensure equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, disability status, genetic information, veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation or status as a parent as defined by applicable law. It is the Bank's policy to comply with applicable laws concerning the employment of persons with disabilities, including reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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