Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Title: Senior QA AnalystJob Type: Contract-Remote/HybridLocation: Atlanta, GA 30334 Job Duration: 1 year + Extension Pay rate: $54/hr Job Description: This position serves as a senior-level quality and business analysis resource responsible for ensuring systems, data, integrations, reporting solutions, and business processes meet business requirements, Federal/State policy standards, and operational expectations. This role bridges the gap between business stakeholders, SMEs, Business System Owners (BSOs), developers, vendors, and testing teams to ensure successful solution delivery and release readiness.The ideal candidate is a highly skilled and versatile professional with strong expertise in manual and automated testing, test strategy development, regression suite optimization, defect management, business process analysis, and requirements management. This role requires the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on, shifting between UAT leadership responsibilities and Business Analyst functions based on project and operational needs. Job Responsibilities• Participate in Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions for assigned Change Requests (CRs) and Maintenance & Operations (M&O) initiatives to support requirements gathering, solution validation, and testing readiness.• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Business System Owners (BSOs), vendors, technical teams, and project managers to analyze, document, refine, and validate business and functional requirements.• Serve as an individual contributor performing both Business Analyst and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) responsibilities based on project, operational, and organizational needs.• Develop and maintain comprehensive UAT strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and testing approaches aligned with business objectives, operational priorities, regulatory requirements, and project timelines.• Review business requirements, functional specifications, system designs, interface documentation, and business workflows to ensure complete and risk-based test coverage.• Track, analyze, and communicate testing metrics, execution progress, defect trends, test coverage, quality risks, and UAT results to leadership, stakeholders, and project teams.• Analyze, review, refine, and enhance existing regression test suites to improve testing efficiency, business-process validation, and overall regression coverage across CAPS systems.• Lead test automation initiatives by developing automation strategies, identifying automation opportunities, recommending appropriate frameworks and tools, and implementing automated regression testing solutions to reduce manual testing effort and improve quality outcomes.• Support post-implementation validation, production issue analysis, continuous process improvement initiatives, QA/UAT best practices, and additional CAPS Program Administration activities as assigned. Qualifications Required • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and/or Business Analysis roles supporting enterprise systems.• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in test automation, including automation strategy development and transitioning manual testing processes into automated solutions.• Strong experience developing test strategies, test cases, test scripts, and executing functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and UAT testing.• Demonstrated experience analyzing business and functional requirements, developing use cases, and translating business needs into testable scenarios.• Experience in performing data quality validation, data reconciliation, and testing across enterprise applications, interfaces, and reporting solutions.•Hands-on experience with QA and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestComplete, Power Automate, UFT, or similar technologies.•Experience working with Microsoft reporting and analytics tools including Power BI and/or Microsoft Fabric.• Proven ability to work independently as a senior-level individual contributor while effectively collaborating with business users, internal teams, external partners, and vendors in a cross-functional environment. Preferred• Experience working with data systems and automated business processes.• Experience creating or using systems for automated testing.• Experience organizing and analyzing data to inform decision making.• Knowledge of Georgia Gateway Integrated Eligibility System.• Knowledge of system development and configuration.• Advanced skills in Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies• Familiarity with data warehousing, ETL processes, or data pipelines