QA Consultant Job Description
QA consultant
provides back-up support for the QA/QC Manager or QC Coordinator as needed to maintain QA/QC practices and ensure product availability.
QA Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective QA consultant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included QA consultant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Development and maintenance of testing processes & procedures 20%
Primarily focus on quality assurance and professional testing to support best in class solutions – via test automations, test-driven development support, improvements in software lifecycle and release management processes
Experience implementing Selenium test automation
Ability to adapt quickly to new technologies and processes
Develop and analyze metrics for performance measures of QA activities
Collects lessons learned through involvement with projects
Participates in Communications Program including road shows, quality kickoff meetings and departmental presentations that will promote the principles and value of the QA Center of Excellence
Strategic and tactical planning, including documentation 30%
Develop/deliver training presentations and coaching/training 15%
Works closely with the development/configuration team to review implementation, and provide feedback from a testing perspective
QA Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for QA Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: API, QA, CE, MD, EU, HANA, SAP, II, ASNT, AWS
Education for QA Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the QA consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Information Systems, Engineering, Information Technology, Education, Technical, Business, Management, Economics
Skills for QA Consultant
Desired skills for QA consultant include:
Finance ideally in middle and back office for derivative product processing
Jenkins
Mobile Device cloud
QC
Selenium
Sonar
FIS products and services
HTML
Processes
Tools
Desired experience for QA consultant includes:
Candidate to be US Citizen or with permanent Green Card
Experience designing QA testing strategies and frameworks for enterprise projects
Strong hands on experience with HP Quality Center/ALM for QA testing
Experience implementing CMMI, TMMI, ITIL process improvement frameworks across the organization’s testing groups a plus
BS Degree in Computer Science or technically related field with a minimum of 5 years relevant industry experience or equivalent
At least 10 years in software development, business analysis, support, or related IT experience, with at least eight years QA experience
QA Consultant Examples
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QA Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of QA consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for QA consultant
- Perform manual test execution
- Making actionable recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness of business compliance solutions that reflect business strategy, corporate values and risk tolerance
- Build, execute, and validate system statistical queries/reports to monitor system quality and stability
- Be a change agent for quality
- Measure and Assurance adherence to established QA standards (Standard Operating Procedures) for SAP custom development, application integration, system performance and corresponding documentation
- Make recommendations for optimizing performance of applications to programmers
- Make use and update documentations related to programming guidelines, naming conventions
- Ensure compliance with agreed Standard Operating Procedures
- Serve as liaison among colleagues in other regions
- Leads the identification, mitigation, measurement, control, monitoring, and reporting of quality assurance and control environment activities
Qualifications for QA consultant
- Advanced knowledge of current operating and browser platforms
- Demonstrated understanding of relational databases, data modeling, networking, and applications development
- Experience with test management and defect tracking systems
- Experience with any CRM software (Salesforce.com, Siebel, Clarify, Vantive, Peoplesoft, NetSuite, ) preferred
- Excellent at manual testing
- Should be aware of defect life cycle, STLC and testing methodologies
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a QA consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for QA consultant
- Identify, assess, and document business requirements, recommending business priorities and advising business on options, risks and costs versus benefits of various solutions
- Compile all elicitation results and analyze requirements to help determine the best solution
- Facilitate the solution design with the architecture & development team
- Identify and communicate risks to delivering solutions on time
- Validate that the solution design meets business and functional requirements
- Develop specifications, functional impacts and prototypes to further illustrate the business need
- Provide relevant test scenarios for Support defect triage process
- Independently drive the test effort for the project
- Document and track defects to closure
- Significant experience implementing teat automation frameworks or doing software development in test
Qualifications for QA consultant
- Demonstrated experience leading other testers in software development projects throughout the project life cycle
- Demonstrated experience in the development of testing process and procedures
- Demonstrated ability to understand impacts of software architecture on performance and reliability
- Demonstrated ability to successfully perform the QA role across multiple, complex system implementations with custom and third-party applications
- Should be good at operations work like gathering and analyzing requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in IT required or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of QA consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for QA consultant
- Experience using SpecFlow or Cucumber is preferred
- 2+ years experience working as part of an agile team
- Collaboration skills to gather input and then experiment with available solutions to validate assumptions and feasibility
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present information within a public setting
- A team oriented mind set
- An enthusiastic, no excuses, can do attitude
- Understanding of good quality testing techniques
- Strong use test management systems
- Strong exposure & experience in executing projects in an agile mode
- Support the creation of functional and non-functional requirements documents by creating specifications based on client SME inputs, reviewing demos of existing systems and through discussions with supervisor
Qualifications for QA consultant
- Professional with at least 5 years in a Quality Analyst role and 2 years in a QA Lead or Sr
- Good knowledge and experience with the QA technics
- Production and Customer support experience
- Bachelors Degree or Master Degree (MCA) in computers/information systems required
- Must be very proficient in DB2, VSAM, CICS, Cobol, JCL SQL
- Fast Learner - Must be able to learn new technologies with enthusiasm and a high degree of efficiency
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of QA consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for QA consultant
- Should have ability to develop and deploy automation to all feasible repeated manual tasks, to bring in efficiencies
- Excellent communication skills and should be able to clearly outline risks, mitigation plans and any other dependencies or assumptions
- Provide support for Test design
- Execute test cases as planned for the assigned modules with special focus on key modules using knowledge of test execution process for both functional and non-functional type of testing
- Perform specific activities for the given module as per the "Go-live" implementation plan with guidance from supervisor
- Should have experience in developing Automated test cases (using Behavior driven development and Test driven development methodology) and integrating it with a DevOps pipeline for Continuous validation and process automation
- Participate in and prepare content for KT sessions, capture understanding of assigned module, and take on shadow support
- Participate in onsite-offshore interactions as required, prepare and submit daily status reports to supervisor and provide timely updates for project trackers on the module assigned
- Document and share own learnings from the project, seek information and leverage knowledge from other modules
- Provide inputs for the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM)
Qualifications for QA consultant
- Focused - Must have the ability to meet tight deliverable deadlines
- Results Oriented - Must work well in a results-oriented environment with self-sufficiency
- Professional - Must be able to maintain professional demeanor in times of high stress
- Creative - Must be able to take creative approaches to solving challenging problems
- Excellent Communicator - Demonstrate advanced written and verbal communication skills, with both technical and non-technical personnel
- Willing and capable of mentoring and training junior members of the team to help them grow their technical and non-technical QA skills
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a QA consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for QA consultant
- Be a strong leader with experience in implementing and shaping the groups QA processes and strategies
- Experience managing testing departments or testing functions, managing large and complex activities and processes
- Analyse the risks and prepare test plans
- Review user stories to validate acceptance criteria and contribute to iteration planning
- Define automated tests to ensure that the solution meets the specifications
- Perform the remaining manual tests
- Share with the development team best practices to prevent flaws
- Accountable for the delivery of test capability for development projects
- Maintain strong relationships with testing competency and other partner organisations to ensure effective engagement practices and maximum benefit are returned to the client
- Directly and through influencing team leadership ensure agreed testing methodologies are used appropriately in all development projects
Qualifications for QA consultant
- 3-5 years of Quality Assurance experience with strong emphasis on web application testing (Required)
- Experience and knowledge in building Automation Frameworks
- Knowledge of behavior or test driven development, previous hands on experience is a bonus
- Knowledge in Cucumber or Specflow
- Knowledge in Object Oriented programing in .Net or Java
- Experience in running/monitoring performance tests and the ability to interpret/report the results to the client and the team