Manual Quality Analyst

Summary

Join New Era Technology as a senior manual tester specializing in the client's Connected Medicine space. You will collaborate with managers and subject matter experts, ensuring efficient communication and rapid issue resolution. Responsibilities include exploratory and scripted testing, developing test cases, tracking defects, and conducting various testing types. The role demands strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills within an Agile environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of project management experience
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge of quality assurance policies, procedures, and best practices
• Ability to work collaboratively with a team as well as independently while resourcefully seeking answers and removing obstacles
• Remains accountable and consistently meets deadlines
• Ability to prioritize and be detail oriented
• Ability to creatively solve problems and display strong critical thinking skills
• Demonstrated verbal and written communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree

Responsibilities

• Work will include exploratory as well as scripted testing, working with the client's subject matter experts and product owners for guidance
• Need to provide quick feedback to ensure rapid escalation and updating to avoid delays to deployment timeline
• Understanding of pharma terminology will be very beneficial to ensure communication is quick and well understood
• Develop and execute test cases and scripts based on business and system requirements and design documentation
• Identify, record, and track defects to resolution
• Conduct regression testing, performance testing, smoke testing, and stress testing as needed
• Document and communicate test results and provide feedback to IT Team and business stakeholders as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an Agile development environment
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Operates with a sense of urgency and uses sound judgement to escalate issues or develops options to work around roadblocks vs. waiting for direction
• Candidate needs to have very strong interpersonal skills. They need to be energetic, upbeat, a good listener, confident, approachable and flexible
• Pharma experience is a plus
• Regulated industry experience is a plus