IT QA Automation Analyst

About the role

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 3,000 employees in 100+ offices and testing facilities coast to coast.

Responsibilities

• Develop test plans, test cases, scenarios, and other related lifecycle documentation
• Create, execute, and maintain automated performance and functional test scripts
• Test issues of varied scope and complexity
• Generate test data
• Identify defects and requirement discrepancies
• Analyze and report performance and functional test results
• Document and track software defects from discovery to successful correction, validation and verification, using a bug tracking system
• Communicate project status and risks to management
• Facilitate test meetings as needed for assigned project
• Maintain and improve software testing processes
• Participate with BSA and Development teams to ensure testing matches requirements and fulfills the intended business needs
• Other duties as assigned by IT Quality Assurance Manager

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 2-5 years of relevant experience required
• Ability to communicate verbally and interact with staff and employees at all levels
• Ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and work in a team-oriented environment
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills to convey testing results

Skills

• Proficiency with software applications, such as: Azure DevOps, Visual Studio, Selenium, Postman, MS Office suite, Internet web browsers
• Understanding of BDD, C#, and/or other languages used in automation testing
• Automation and manual testing of Unit, functional, negative, regression, system integration, acceptance, security, API, and performance testing
• CI/CD, Pipeline, test planning, test execution, test result analysis and reporting automation
• Understanding of the “Software Development Life cycle"

Pay

The expected pay range for this role and location is $110,000 - $120,000/year. The final agreed-upon compensation will be determined based on specific location and other individual qualifications.