Sr. Software QA Analyst

19 Feb 2025

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Company Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Treasury Services partners and supports the US Treasury's mission to expand the use of digital transactions across the Federal Government. The group provides strategic-level leadership, industry knowledge and innovative thinking to assist with Treasury's end goal of all-electronic payments and disbursements.

As a part of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland's Treasury Services team, we embrace the challenge of consistently delivering exceptional work to benefit the Treasury, our organization, federal agencies, businesses, financial institutions, and individuals.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be a U.S. citizen, permanent resident or green card holder and have resided in the U.S. for a minimum of three consecutive years.

In this role, you will understand how the system works, develop and maintain complex test cases to ensure the system works correctly, and document defects with supporting documentation. You will also be responsible for analyzing moderate to complex problems to determine the root cause of the issue and conducting tests that will help in duplicating or troubleshooting issues found during testing or in production.

Essential Accountabilities
  • Prepare and execute manual test cases, according to the system defined requirements, to ensure overall quality of the product and that the system meets defined requirements.
  • Perform and/or define automation scripts and analyze results in order to determine completion states. Analysis will require interaction with testers, developers, product owners and technical technicians.
  • Set up the system and create database queries in order to prepare for testing particular scenarios.
  • Lead in the planning, development, and maintenance of test plans, test cases and data that supports ensuring alignment with business requirements.
  • Identify and prioritize issues with testing and system behavior. Participate in root cause analysis on problems encountered during testing and recommend possible solutions. Collaborate with developers and technical support staff as needed to isolate root cause of defects and provides recommendations.
  • Analyze test cases to determine an efficient and appropriate use of automated tools.
  • Collaborate with the development team to determine the types of testing that's required to exercise the requirement.
  • Participate in the creation of periodic reports on test status and risks, and a final report covering all testing activities that includes recommendations for application implementation and post-deployment operations.
  • Participate in team meetings and offer new ideas to improve the team's operational efficiency.
  • Perform other duties as assigned or requested.

Education and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related work experience
  • Associate's degree or software testing certificate with 7+ years of related work experience

Knowledge and Skills
  • Work within an agile work environment utilizing Scrum or Kanban methodologies
  • Understanding of Agile Testing Methodology
  • Understands the agile concepts of user stories, velocity, and story pointing
  • General understanding of Software development
  • Knowledge of a Programming and scripting language is a plus
  • Ability to develop Automation tests a plus
  • Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
  • Ability to perform independent research
  • Strategic thinking/planning
  • Teamwork/collaboration
  • Written and verbal communication
  • Active listening
  • Problem-solving and analytical
  • Project management
  • Facilitating presentations/public speaking
  • Providing a high level of customer service
  • Performing routine tasks
  • Strive to not only be a good team member but help others to be the same.

Physical Demands and General Working Conditions
  • Employees typically sit most of the day, work with a computer and may answer/respond to phone calls. Physical movement consists of walking for meetings, breaks, etc. Ability to lift items weighing approximately 20 pounds on a limited basis is required. Employees may be required to travel by car/air.

Full Time / Part Time Full time

Regular / Temporary Regular

Job Exempt (Yes / No) Yes

Job Category Information Technology

Work Shift First (United States of America)

The Federal Reserve Banks believe that diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success as an organization, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. The Federal Reserve Banks are committed to equal employment opportunity for employees and job applicants in compliance with applicable law and to an environment where employees are valued for their differences.

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  • ID: #49297344
  • State: Ohio Cleveland 44102 Cleveland USA
  • City: Cleveland
  • Salary: USD TBD TBD
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-02-19
  • Deadline: 2023-04-19
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