Contractor – Systems Analyst and Tester

The ideal candidate supporting the Real Estate Lending (REL) Intelligent Automation team is an experienced analyst, tester and team player that is passionate about cross-team collaboration and committed to lifelong learning, possessing the ability to apply their knowledge, skills, and experience to solve complex/real-world problems.

Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to:

Must have 6 or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment, performing all tasks related to manual and automated testing.Experience developing and implementing efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions and test scripts for projects related to Mortgage.Proven ability to ensure appropriate testing coverage and requirements traceability through the creation, implementation and enhancement of comprehensive test plans, test cases/user stories, test steps and test automationExperience defining clear expectations for all testing tasks, including inputs and outputsReview functional requirements, data definitions, business processes, and business rules to develop test plans.Participate in requirements-gathering meetings and working sessions.Provide feedback on draft requirements with the goal of ensuring they are testable.Proven ability to decompose requirements into detailed test cases for functional and regression test executionExperience developing and executing test plans, test cases, scripts, and creating test data for Agile Software Development team; including functional, integration, regression, data integrity and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptanceIdentify and map specific requirements to test scripts.Identify and set up test data as needed for new features or enhancements.Responsible for defect tracking and reporting.Record all testing results as pass/fail, detailing defect descriptions, defect type, defect severity and priority; clarifying defect descriptions during defect meetings, during developer clarification meetings and clarify defect descriptions.Retest to validate fixes to reported defects during UAT, documenting pass/fail and defect description if retest fails.Document defects and issues found during SIT, UAT and PRODParticipate in UAT kickoff meetings, demos, and status meetings.Conduct regression testing during UAT based on the scope of the release.Technical proficiency with SQL including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraintsParticipate in lessons learned sessions with team members.Ability to write and review detailed documentation (technical specifications, weekly/monthly reports, meeting notes, etc.)Strong organizational skills with excellent communication (written and verbal), excellent time management skills.Work independently with minimal supervision as well as working with a team.

Work Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Experience performing systems analysis and/or business process analysis.Experience performing QA, user acceptance testing and/or independent verification and validation.Excellent verbal and written communication skills, a high level of integrity, critical thinking, and leadership courageUnderstanding of software testing types and methods to support Agile Software Development