Senior Associate, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Analyst

Job Requisition ID:92002

Location Designation:Fully Onsite

Location: 44 South Broadway, White Plains, New York 10601

Offered Wage: $150,280.00/year

Duties: Execute automation and manual test cases on technology solutions to validate business requirements, design specifications, and production readiness. Develop and execute test plans created to validate software solutions using real-world scenarios and proposed business processes. Partner closely with Requirements Leads, Business Analysts, and IT Testing professionals to ensure business requirements are appropriately tested according to specifications. Report defects, usability variances, and business process issues that negatively impact production readiness or established acceptance criteria. Contribute to the definition of testing acceptance criteria, final approval of production readiness approval, and real-world business use case creation. Work with Business Requirement Leads to determine appropriate test coverage, test scenarios, and exploratory testing strategies according to business requirements. Execute testing, including "Run the Shop" work that focuses on keeping the systems running and small enhancements and large-scale strategic programs that focus on "Grow the Business" and new business technology modernization.

Education & Experience Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems

or

related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus five (5) years of experience as a Quality Assurance Professional or related occupation performing automation and manual testing and providing software testing support leveraging Waterfall and Agile testing methodologies within the insurance industry or, alternatively, a Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or related field (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus three (3) years of experience as a Quality Assurance Professional or related occupation performing automation and manual testing and providing software testing support leveraging Waterfall and Agile testing methodologies within the insurance industry. Specific skills/other requirements - Experience must include 3 years in each of the following skills: Developing Selenium-Java automation frameworks leveraging TestNG and Maven for test suite execution, and crafting functional and non-functional automated testing frameworks and coding, maintaining, and executing test scripts leveraging Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE) to ensure business processes cited in JIRA requirements; Coordinating with user acceptance testing (UAT) teams during Agile sprints to identify test data from SQL databases and creating required test data by managing test cases and bug management processes leveraging JIRA management tools; Crafting test strategies and plans for large-scale projects and tracking revisions to maintain project alignment and ensure version control throughout using documentation in JIRA; Testing web services to verify test results leveraging SOAP user interface (UI) and REST Extensible Markup Languages (XMLs) and extracting data through SQL queries at the backend to ensure software systems reliability and accuracy; and creating JIRA dashboards leveraging custom, defined gadgets and filters in JIRA to view project insights by collecting data from multiple sources, including project details, bug tracking, number and types of reported issues, and overall state of the project to identify areas of improvement and ensure that workflows run smoothly and meet established objectives.

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Overtime eligible:Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Sales bonus eligible:No

Pay Transparency

Overtime eligible:Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Sales bonus eligible:No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

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Job Requisition ID:92002