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Short Description:

A Quality Assurance Analyst is typically responsible for the testing phase of the production process to ensure that final products meet the company standards. Duties include identifying whether products are functional, reliable, and meet the end user's expectations.

Duties / Responsibilities:

  • Performs and leads processes related to quality assurance for new software development systems and applications.
  • Responsible for identifying and reviewing activities and deliverables critical to project quality.
  • Develop and execute quality management plan, review, and audit plan.
  • Responsible for informing, enabling, reviewing, and reporting on project process performance.
  • Serves as a mentor to lower-level testing analysts and may provide work direction to others in the project team(s).
  • Ability to mentor and act as first-line supervisor to lower-level staff.
  • Ability to develop and execute effective plans for quality management, review, and audit.
  • Ability to track and establish metrics for quality assurance.

Skills / Requirements / Qualifications

  • Database User Interface and Query Software: Airtable; Apache Hive; Blackboard software; IBM DB2 
  • Development Environment Software: Apache Maven; Apache Subversion SVN; Go; Oracle Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition J2EE 
  • Object or Component-Oriented Development Software: Apache Spark; jQuery; Objective C; Scala 
  • Program testing software: Hewlett Packard LoadRunner; IBM Rational Robot; JUnit; Selenium 
  • Web platform development software: Django; Google Angular; React; Spring Framework 

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  • Education: Most of these occupations require a four-year bachelor's degree, but some do not.
  • Related Experience: A considerable amount of work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is needed for these occupations. 
  • Job Training: Employees in these occupations usually need several years of work-related experience, on-the-job training, or vocational training.
  • Job Zone Examples: Many of these occupations involve coordinating, supervising, managing, or training others. Examples include real estate brokers, sales managers, database administrators, graphic designers, conservation scientists, art directors, and cost estimators.
  • Specific Vocational Preparation in years: 2-4 years of preparation (7.0 to < 8.0)

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