Business Analyst Quality Assurance

Apex Systems has an immediate opening available for a QA/BA with one of our top clients supporting a major federal government program. The QA/BA will Develop computer systems specifications that address business requirements and performs system testing to software changes made.

Location: 100% remote (must be willing to work EST)

Clearance: Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

Duration: 6-9+ month contract-hire

Responsibilities:

• Participates in the analysis and evaluation of existing or proposed systems and assists in the design of computer systems to process data.
• Assists in preparing detailed specifications from which programs will be written.
• Analyzes and reviews business requirements and creates functional requirements for front-end, batch and data requests for multiple systems being maintained and new systems being created.
• Creates test cases, test scenarios and performs system testing for software changes being made to new and existing systems.
• Prepares and updates documentation for new or existing systems.
• Troubleshoots and provides technical support and solutions to users.
• Maintains current knowledge of relevant technologies as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science, Business Information Technology or related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
• 1-4 years of directly related computer systems analysis, requirements and software testing experience.
• Basic knowledge of the system development lifecycle (SDLC), and understanding of waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• SQL experience
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral

Preferred Qualifications:

• Front end testing
• Batch testing
• Validate web-services
• Testing in HTML
• Mainframe/ DB2

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