Software QA Specialist

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

Job posting number: #7279997

Posted: September 12, 2024

Application Deadline: Open Until Filled

Job Description

Job Summary
As a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst with University Faculty Information & Support, you will work directly with our software development team to help ensure the quality of our web-based software. You will be tasked with feature-testing software as we deploy new features and improvements to our software. You will also be responsible for maintaining a suite of regression tests that can be run periodically to ensure the overall stability of our system. You will also be working in an agile environment where communication and teamwork is a key to success while working directly with teammates to catch any unexpected results that may exist. You will also work with our QA team to develop and maintain test plans, smoke test after deployments, test API endpoints, work with basic SQL in a database environment, and help run test automation.

University Faculty Information & Support provides administrative applications and support to leadership across all colleges at the University of Utah including University of Utah Health Academics (non-clinical). Our information systems and integration with other institutional data sources allow us to provide comprehensive management of financial data, financial processes, faculty data and faculty-centric processes in support of the various missions of the university.

Our generous University staff benefits package includes but is not limited to: health care and dental plan options, tuition reduction, UTA pass (Bus, TRAX, & FrontRunner), paid holidays, paid leave time, employer and employee paid retirement, and more!
Responsibilities
Develops, publishes, and implements test plans across multiple cloud-based application.
Performs test plans and communicates results.
Helps maintain quality assurance standards including bug reporting.
Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics and analyses risks.
Familiarity with test automation.

Disclaimer
This job description is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.

Comments
Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision; typically reports to a manager. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.

Minimum Qualifications
Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related area or equivalency (one year of education can be substituted for two years of related work experience) and 2-4 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
Applicants must demonstrate the potential ability to perform the essential functions of the job as outlined in the position description.
Preferences
Department Specific Qualifications
Work experience in software development
Ability to troubleshoot features on a technical level
Must have a working knowledge of current quality assurance methodologies
Ability to be adaptable to current needs
Proven experience with the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)

Department Specific Preferences
Test Automation experience
Experience with agile environment / Jira
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Team player




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Job posting number:#7279997
Application Deadline:Open Until Filled
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