IT Quality Assurance Analyst jobs in Utah

Job Summary

Under the direction of the Software Quality Assurance Manager, the Quality Assurance Analyst is responsible for executing test plans to ensure the quality of various pieces of software, as well as create well documented work items for any issues found during testing. The Quality Assurance Analyst will have strong technical skills, business acumen, and effectively communicate across the organization. Responsible for exemplifying teamwork, collaboration and living the Company values, culture, policy, and procedures.

Essential Job Functions:

• Review requirement specification documents and develop Test plans/Test cases

• Communicate effectively with the QA team and other departments

• Follow established SDLC processes

• Adhere to quality standards when testing and analyzing

• Recognize and notify Team of potential issues or oversites with functional or technical behavior

• Troubleshoot escalated production issues

• Develop and execute test cases

• Document testing outcomes, failure reasons, discussions, decisions made for historical tracking purposes

• Maintain professionalism, and integrity to ourselves, co-workers, and customers

Responsibilities / Duties / Tasks:

• Apply technical knowledge, analysis skills and judgment to identify issues, their root cause and opportunities for innovation and automation

• Enters bugs within the defect tracking system

• Verifies bug solutions as they are completed

• Conduct exploratory testing to evaluate robustness and functionality of products

• Comply with project plans and industry standards

• Ensure software is updated with latest features

• Other duties as prescribed - Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Job Qualifications / Skill Requirements:

• Experience with test case repository tools

• Knowledge of QA methodology working in an Agile environment

• Quality Assurance/Testing experience/Test Management/Test Plan Creation/Test Lifecycle

• Knowledge of general software QA methodologies, tools and processes

• Work independently and in team environment

• Effective ability to elicit needed answers from others

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Good organizational and interpersonal skills

• Ability to prioritize and multitask

• Acute attention to detail