Quality Assurance Consultant

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Quality Specialist for an onsite position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC; Pennington, NJ or Plano, TX. This is a 12+ month contract opportunity.

The Quality Specialist is responsible for testing and delivering complex software to accomplish business outcomes. These individuals are subject matter experts on testing practices ensuring that software is tested to meet functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements. They help condition and generate test data, build and execute both manual and automated test suites, record and communicate test results, and assist with triaging defects.

Responsibilities:

• Develop detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test cases based on functional, non-functional, and compliance requirements
• Lead test planning, usually at a team level, ensuring stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria
• Ensure in-scope and out-of-scope items are clearly identified during test planning
• Implement the team's test framework and lead test case reviews with subject matter experts
• Identify automation opportunities, help condition and generate test data, and ensure data compliance requirements are met
• Execute manual and automated test cases, record results, and report issues and defects
• Participate in triaging reported issues/defects and assist with resolving or escalating them as necessary
• Create and manage traceability, tracing tests through the development lifecycle back to requirements
• Use testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment
• Maintain and catalogue test suites across test types (Smoke, Integration, Regression, etc)

Requirements:

• Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework & Jira
• Ability to design and develop manual and automated test plans within an application
• Basic knowledge of automation and continuous delivery practices
• Experience testing Microsoft 365 products, services, and business flows
• Understanding of architecture and corporate standards to support testing of architecture designs and implementations
• Excellent action management, prioritization, written and verbal communication skills
• Strong analytical skills and use of testing tools to report and track defects
• Understanding of risks and ability to apply controls necessary to mitigate them
• A basic understanding of the following technologies and architectures: M365 Teams & Skype, M365 OneDrive & SharePoint Online, M365 Power Apps & Automate, Microsoft Exchange + Exchange Online, M365 licensing and infrastructure, M365 Defender, Email message routing, and M365 Intune

Desired skills:

• Knowledge of IT service management principles and requirements
• Up to date with the latest corporate policies, standards, and security baselines
• Ability to define, create, and optimize processes based on requirements
• Basic understanding of financial data and data management practices and technologies
• Basic understanding of experience design principles

Pay range: $49.37 - $57.37 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position.

If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client. Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20+ years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website.

Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.