QA Specialist

• Remote

• $5-15/hr

Required Skills & Experience

- 4+ years of QA experience

- 2+ years of experience testing data-driven or analytics solutions

- Experience with manual web-application testing across Window and Android

- 4+ years with test-automation tools including Selenium, Playwright or Cypress

- Scripting and programming experience in Python, Bash, or PowerShell

- Understanding of REST/JSON payloads, basic security, and performance test fundamentals - Jmeter preferred

- SQL skills including experience with joins, aggregations, and queries against large tables as well as writing queries

- Experience creating test cases from well-defined requirements and from sparse, ad-hoc information

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

- Manual web-application testing across macOS/IOS/

- Familiarity with AWS analytics stack -- Glue, S3

- Experience with CI/CD systems such as Azure DevOps

- Experience with Microsoft Server components: IIS, SQL Server, Windows Server OS, ASP, .NET

- Familiarity with web application development technologies and languages: HTML, XML, Ajax, CSS

- Knowledge of Visual Studio, C#, or Java for deeper integration with developer unit-test frameworks

- Exposure to compatibility testing, accessibility, standards, and basic penetration testing.

Job Description

A Management Consulting client of Insight Global is seeking a versatile Quality-Assurance Specialist who can move comfortably between hands-on UI testing and automated validation of data-centric UI features to join their Reporting and Analytics group. You will test the self-service reporting features used by their higher-education and research clients, help design repeatable test frameworks, and ensure that data flowing from operational databases into our analytics lake (AWS Glue / Iceberg / Snowflake) is accurate, timely, and secure.

This role will be a blend of Manual QA (25%) and Automation and Data QA (75%).

Key responsibilities include:

Automation and Data Responsibilities:

- Write and maintain automated tests (Selenium or similar) for critical workflows; integrate them into Azure DevOps pipelines.

- Build validation jobs that run during CDC deployments to flag feature regressions and errors, and incorrect data returned in reporting features.

- Contribute to load, stress, and scalability tests for application features.

Manual Responsibilities:

- Execute exploratory and scripted tests across Chrome/Edge/Firefox to validate reporting features like Query Builder, delivered dashboards, and other UI features that connect to the application reporting data model.

- Compare data returned in reporting features to source data targets, verify row counts and values to ensure features deliver expected data content.

- Review UI/UX changes with Product and Engineering, create clear test cases, and log defects with complete repro steps.

- Participate in backlog / grooming sessions to refine acceptance criteria and provide test estimates.

- Perform cross-browser, accessibility, and basic security smoke tests on each release candidate.

- Re-test after bug fixes and maintain regression-test documentation