Asst Dir-QA Analyst

As a Quality Analyst, your role involves designing, writing, and executing functional tests. You will be responsible for assisting in the design and prioritization of a maintainable and robust test automation framework. It is crucial to assist with the clarification of functional and non-functional requirements and use bug tracking systems to submit, track, and manage defects. Your responsibilities also include analyzing test results across the full stream and providing meaningful reports to the project team. You will be maintaining software testing artifacts, using queries to create test data, and analyzing results. Coordination with other testing resources to ensure coverage for each software release in all focus areas, including manual and automated testing, is essential. Process initiation and execution improvements for the QA phases of the SDLC are part of your duties, where you will be expected to use tools to work efficiently, including available and relevant AI. Mentorship of team members and filling the QA lead role on a stream for a small team is also expected. Detailed project planning and project management support, including work breakdown structure, estimates, timelines related to QA tasks, status reporting, and project closeout specific to testing, will be performed by you. Qualifications required for this role include: - 6+ years of experience in quality assurance or customer support role troubleshooting web-based software - Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle - Proficiency in software to track work progress and to submit, track, and manage defects (Jira, Rally, or similar) - Excellent written and verbal communication skills - Effective time management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills - Ability to work well under pressure, respond to tight deadlines, and exercise excellent judgment in setting priorities for your work and the work of the team - A self-starter, solution-oriented team player with leadership skills - Detail orientation with a desire to deeply understand the subject matter and user flows - Ability to work effectively with distributed teams - Familiarity with financial or banking software is preferred The company's Lending Solutions organization develops and implements client-specific solutions to become a strategic partner to banks in activities supporting the end-to-end Lending value chain and asset classes. As a Quality Analyst, you will serve as a member of the quality management team (QMT), focusing on testing and usability of complex software products used by client-facing teams to develop and deploy lending solutions. You can expect to work on testing new modules and products, as well as responding to client-reported issues or concerns to ensure customers get maximum value from the products.,