Junior QA Engineer

*Conducts quality-control tests and analyses to ensure that data products meet or exceed specified standards and user requirements *Interfaces with relevant stakeholders for Test Case Review sessions. *Develops Test Cases, creates test data, and executes Test Cases *Documents Defects and generate Test Metrics *Tracks Defects to Resolution *Applies basic industry and functional area knowledge while authoring integration and system test scripts, configuration test questionnaires and other test materials. Executes requirements-based functional tests for application software. *Contributes to test planning, scheduling, automation, managing test resources; *Understands the functional design of software products / suites being tested and their underlying technologies to facilitate authoring testware, diagnosing system issues, and ensuring that tests accurately address required business functionality.

*Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in business, mathematics, engineering, management information systems, or computer science, or related field preferred *Experience working with developing testware from functional design documents and executing testware against a schedule and in compliance with a methodology *Prior experience with automated test *Prior experience with data testing (understanding any of SQL, noSQL databases) *Experience working with configuration management, defect tracking, query tools, software productivity tools, and templates used to create test scripts, trace matrices, etc. *Good organization and time management skills *Good analytical and problem-solving skills *Good communication skills to interact and present findings to team members *Ability to work cooperatively as a part of a global professional team that may be distributed across geographies and time zones