Contractor – Systems Analyst and Tester

The ideal candidate supporting the Real Estate Lending (REL) Intelligent Automation team is an experienced analyst, tester and team player that is passionate about cross-team collaboration and committed to lifelong learning, possessing the ability to apply their knowledge, skills, and experience to solve complex/real-world problems.

Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Must have 6 or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment, performing all tasks related to manual and automated testing.
• Experience developing and implementing efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions and test scripts for projects related to Mortgage.
• Proven ability to ensure appropriate testing coverage and requirements traceability through the creation, implementation and enhancement of comprehensive test plans, test cases/user stories, test steps and test automation
• Experience defining clear expectations for all testing tasks, including inputs and outputs
• Review functional requirements, data definitions, business processes, and business rules to develop test plans.
• Participate in requirements-gathering meetings and working sessions.
• Provide feedback on draft requirements with the goal of ensuring they are testable.
• Proven ability to decompose requirements into detailed test cases for functional and regression test execution
• Experience developing and executing test plans, test cases, scripts, and creating test data for Agile Software Development team; including functional, integration, regression, data integrity and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptance
• Identify and map specific requirements to test scripts.
• Identify and set up test data as needed for new features or enhancements.
• Responsible for defect tracking and reporting.
• Record all testing results as pass/fail, detailing defect descriptions, defect type, defect severity and priority; clarifying defect descriptions during defect meetings, during developer clarification meetings and clarify defect descriptions.
• Retest to validate fixes to reported defects during UAT, documenting pass/fail and defect description if retest fails.
• Document defects and issues found during SIT, UAT and PROD
• Participate in UAT kickoff meetings, demos, and status meetings.
• Conduct regression testing during UAT based on the scope of the release.
• Technical proficiency with SQL including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints
• Participate in lessons learned sessions with team members.
• Ability to write and review detailed documentation (technical specifications, weekly/monthly reports, meeting notes, etc.)
• Strong organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), excellent time management skills.
• Work independently with minimal supervision as well as working with a team.

Work Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Experience performing systems analysis and/or business process analysis.
• Experience performing QA, user acceptance testing and/or independent verification and validation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a high level of integrity, critical thinking, and leadership courage
• Understanding of software testing types and methods to support Agile Software Development