Junior QA Analyst
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Job Description
Title: Junior QA Analyst | Software Testing & Quality Assurance
Location: Hybrid - Atlanta, GA
Duration: Contract | Full-Time | ~13-Month Contract
Job Description: We are hiring a Junior QA Analyst / Junior Quality Assurance Tester to support full test lifecycle execution across a large-scale government IT environment. This QA Analyst role involves manual testing, UAT facilitation, defect management, and Agile-based quality assurance across custom applications and GIS components.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Create, document, and execute test plans and manual test scripts; analyze results and report defects and anomalies through the lens of business end users
- Support UAT scenario development alongside business subject matter experts and business analysts, and facilitate UAT activities with end users
- Collaborate with PMO, business partners, and vendor technical delivery teams to understand and validate business requirements against system behavior
- Perform system testing, regression testing, performance testing, security testing, and post-go-live validation across custom applications
- Document Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) and confirm application readiness for UAT
- Participate in defect triage meetings and sprint demos; report weekly testing status to the QA Testing Lead
- Identify bottlenecks and risks in testing timelines and communicate proactively to management
- Test GIS components and support quality assurance across mid-to-large-scale software development projects
Skills:
- Quality assurance / QA testing / software quality assurance
- Manual testing / automated testing / test script execution
- Test plan creation / test case documentation / test results evaluation
- UAT facilitation / user acceptance testing / UAT instruction preparation
- Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) documentation
- Defect management tools / defect triage
- Agile methodology / Scrum / SDLC
- System testing / regression testing / performance testing / load testing / security testing / parallel testing / post-go-live validation
- GIS component testing / custom application testing
- GitHub / ServiceNow
- Cross-functional team collaboration / stakeholder communication
- Mobile device testing (a plus)
- Public sector experience (a plus)
- CAST / CSTE / CSQA / CMSQ certification (preferred)
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
- 3 5 years of experience in software quality assurance and testing
- Experience on mid-scale or large-scale system development projects
- Ability to review and analyze system specifications, business requirements, and design documents
- Strong verbal, written, and cross-functional communication skills
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