Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Title: Software Quality Assurance Analyst

Location: United States; East Coast

Experience: Associate-Mid Level

Job Function: Engineering

Employment Type: Full Time

Industry: Computer Network & Security

 

About the position

The Software Quality Assurance Analyst role will work closely with the business and the engineering team to deliver new features and improved functionality to our customers. You will assist with requirements gathering, acceptance criteria, test cases, test execution, test automation, and overall process improvements to increase testing efficiency and product quality.

The position is based in the United States and can be performed remotely when necessary. Applicants must hold US citizenship or US permanent resident status.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the business and the engineering team on requirements gathering for product testing.
• Participates in requirements reviews; Analyzes system and business requirements to ensure they are clear, complete, and accurate.
• Create, execute, and automate test plans and test cases to ensure that acceptance criteria have been met.
• Advise and implement test strategies to focus testing efforts.
• Ad-hoc testing to ensure that core functionality and integrity of the system remains intact.
• Testing environment set up to ensure testing efforts match customer configurations.
• Regression and Automation test maintenance.
• Learn new skills and look for new technologies to improve testing.
• Follow testing process and look for improvements in all areas.
• Assist technical writer to ensure documentation is accurate and updated as needed.
• Be positive and professional in all work activities.

Skills and Qualifications

• This is an entry/intermediate position, the right person for this role would have related work experience, training, or education in software product testing, analysis, and requirements gathering.
• BS/MS degree in a Technology related field a plus.

• Fundamental proficiency with industry-standard operating systems and business application suites
• High-level conceptual knowledge of digital certificates and their usage a plus
• Understanding of core networking fundamentals
• Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to an ever-changing landscape.
• Strong interpersonal communication and writing skills.
• Technical troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Experience with test automation a plus
• Experience with AzureDevOps (TFS) a plus
• Working knowledge of relational database usage (i.e., SQL) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI) or cryptography is a plus.
• Basic knowledge of Active Directory
• Basic knowledge of Active Directory Certificate Services

Compensation

Salary will be commensurate with experience. 

Culture, Career Opportunities and Benefits

We build teams that continually strive to get better than the day before. You will be challenged daily and given opportunities to grow personally and professionally. We balance autonomy and structure to create an entrepreneurial environment to spur creativity and new ideas. A few initiatives that make our culture special include: 

• Comprehensive benefit coverage 
• Dedicated employee focused ambassadors via Key Contributor & Culture Committee 
• DIVERSE Commitment  
• Global Volunteer Day 
• Flexible time off 
• Regular Cross Functional meetings 
• Regular Leadership Development meetings 
• Regular All Hands meetings – followed by group gatherings  
• Second Friday’s (a company-wide day off on the second Friday of every month) 
• The Keyfactor Alliance Program 
• Weekly Feedback Snapshot 

Our Core Values

Our core values are extremely important to how we run our business and what we look for in every team member:  

Trust is paramount.  

We deliver security software and solutions where trust and openness are of the highest importance for our customers. We are honest and a trusted partner in every aspect of business.  

Customers are core.  

We strategize, operate, and execute through a customer-centric view. We prioritize the security interests of our customers, and we act as if their data were our own.  

Innovation never stops, it only accelerates.  

The speed of change is