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MUST have Higher Education/Financial Aid Industry Experience*

QA ENGINEER/ANALYST: FREDERICK, MARYLAND

Immediate fulltime, direct hire opportunity for a QA Engineer/Analyst with our client in Frederick, Maryland. Remote work options available for the right candidate.   

Company Description:

• Since 2005, our client has been an industry leader in financial aid software and recognized for results-driven enrollment optimization and financial aid management solutions—solutions that are web-based, easy-to-use, and interoperate with any existing student information system.
• They offer software-as-a-solution tools that help for-profit and private education institutions increase enrollment, improve retention, speed student processing, mitigate compliance risks and deliver bottom-line results.
• The company allows casual business dress and offers a result based, entrepreneurial work environment.
• They want the best and brightest who are self-starters who can take action to achieve results.
• They are a team based culture with a “Can Do” attitude and always strive to exceed expectations.
• They offer comprehensive benefits which includes; health, dental, vision, life, and a 401K plan, as well as, company bonuses for exceptional performance.

Position Responsibilities:

• This individual will play an active hands-on role in all aspects of quality assurance, from functional requirements walkthroughs, reviewing and analyzing functional and technical designs, creating test plans and developing and executing tests of project features.
• This position will work closely with the product management, development, delivery and support teams, ensuring that testing of new functionality is automated as quickly as possible and that the complete end-to-end automated regression test suite is run continuously.
• This includes personally writing and/or executing automated and manual tests. 
• End-to-end business system testing is required including UI, business logic, and database results.

Core Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Product/Business Analysts and Managers to understand the product requirements and use cases in order to deliver high quality software on schedule for production releases.
• Create and execute test plans and test cases based upon functional and software design specifications.
• Help define, promote, and ensure adherence to quality assurance processes such as test plan reviews, defect management, risk/complexity analysis, and regression test maintenance.
• Interface with 3rd parties on requirements, testing, and problem troubleshooting, as needed.
• Perform tasks within area of specialization with little to no supervision.
• Be responsible for following through and making sure defects are reported and escalated appropriately.

Work Experience and Core Competencies:

• Experience with the systems development lifecycle and the role of QA in those processes.
• Strong analytical skills in assessing user, functional, and technical requirements and documentation and identifying high risk and key test areas.
• Understanding of multi-tier web application architecture and deployment.
• Experience testing database driven applications including data validation using SQL.
• GUI test automation experience is helpful
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Knowledge of general release engineering tasks, including deploying builds to test or live environments.
• Experience with UNIX and Microsoft Windows.
• Knowledge of development languages like Java and/or .Net
• Knowledge of relational databases