Manual qa tester Jobs in San Francisco, CA

Job Description

Job Description

QA Tester - Oakland, CA - 24+ months

Must be local to Bay Area.

More manual testing.  Some automation.

Prefer USC / GC

Position Overview :

This QA role is to ensure that the solution delivered has the highest level of quality possible. Candidate is primarily responsible for the creation and execution of test cases, manual and automated testing as needed. Candidate will be responsible for discovery, management, and closure of issues discovered during the testing process. This person will also assist in the identification of process improvements and quality standards.

Applicants must possess excellent analytic and problem-solving skills and have the tenacity to discover the hard to find defects and manage them until closure. The applicant will be required to collaborate and communicate effectively in a team environment, as well as work and think independently

Responsibilities :

• Management and execution of test scenarios and test cases and, where possible, develop and execute automated test scripts to verify software functionality and adherence to business requirements.
• Ability to create test plans and test cases by analyzing requirements, setting up test environments, understanding and executing test scripts with little supervision
• Read / write / execute SQL queries to validate inserts, updates & extracts from a SQL Server / Oracle database.
• Leverage various toolsets to test Web Services or Rest Services (ex : SoapUI or Postman).
• Perform various types of testing, including Performance, Load, Regression, Integration and Functional.
• Identify test data, execute the test cases and report defects. Good experience with various defect tracking tools (JIRA, Bugzilla etc)
• Take a proactive role in researching and implementing more effective test practices
• Familiar with different tools supporting test automation (Selenium, Cucumber, MySQL, Eclipse IDE, Core Java)
• Estimate, track and analyze defect metrics associated with testing activities and help identify problem areas in the application.
• Provide timely updates and elevate critical risks to project and management teams.
• Good verbal and written communication skills for collaborative team environment and technical documentation
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting / debugging skills to resolve technical and business issues
• Interface with supervisor, business analysts, and developers in order to verify complex solutions.
• Manage priorities in a highly dynamic environment by working closely with your Supervisor and the team’s Project Manager.
• Working experience in HealthCare industry is highly desirable.

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