Quality Assurance Analyst

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst is responsible for ensuring software applications, system enhancements, and technology solutions meet business requirements and quality standards before deployment. This role serves as a key partner throughout the solution delivery lifecycle, collaborating with business stakeholders, business analysts, project managers, developers, and support teams to identify risks, validate requirements, execute testing activities, and support successful implementations. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES Test Planning and Execution Review business, functional, and technical requirements to ensure they are complete, clear, and testable prior to development. Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, and supporting testing documentation. Execute functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing on system enhancements, bug fixes, and new releases. Conduct post-deployment validation and smoke testing to confirm successful releases. Experience with automated testing. Requirements and Quality Review Identify gaps, ambiguities, inconsistencies, and quality risks within requirements and proposed solutions. Collaborate with Business Analysts and project stakeholders to ensure acceptance criteria are measurable and testable. Business Systems Testing Validate changes and enhancements to enterprise business applications, including CRM, ERP, and related systems, verifying workflows, business rules, security permissions, integrations, and reporting functionality, and assessing impacts to upstream and downstream systems to ensure changes support business processes and operational needs. Defect Management Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution, working closely with developers and stakeholders to investigate root causes and verify corrective actions. Retest resolved issues to confirm successful remediation prior to release, and clearly communicate testing results, risks, and recommendations. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support Partner with business stakeholders to develop practical and realistic test scenarios, and coordinate and support User Acceptance Testing activities. Assist users with test preparation, execution, issue reporting, and validation of solutions, while tracking testing progress and supporting business sign-off activities. Data Validation and Reporting Validate data accuracy across interfaces, integrations, reports, and business applications, and verify calculations, data transformations, and reporting outputs against business requirements. Investigate and document discrepancies between expected and actual results. Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to improve testing processes, documentation standards, and quality practices, and contribute to the development and maintenance of testing procedures, templates, and best practices. Assist in evaluating opportunities to leverage automation, where…