Quality Assurance Analyst with Security Clearance

For more than a decade, Karthik Consulting has been a reliable and trusted advisor to our Government customers, providing independent and unbiased recommendations and solutions to mitigate risk and help solve IT issues. We bring the innovation, passion, and agility of the commercial sector to meet the unique challenges of this competitive space. Karthik Consulting is seeking Quality Assurance Analyst with the below skillset.

Quality Assurance Analyst
Job Type: Full Time
Job Location: Washington, DC
Clearance: Public Trust (required)
Salary: $70,000 - $80,000 per year "List of tasks to be performed: • Develop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail. XML). • Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.

• Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM). • Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.
• Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.
• Automated test script development
• Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Experience Level:

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience, in technology or software development preferred. • Experience eliciting and documenting business process and requirement.
• Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts. • Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts. • Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.
• Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, Workflow
• Hands-on knowledge of scripting language such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)
• Experience with API Testing using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar
• Experience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.
• Experience using automation tools • Software Testing certification is preferred.

Preferred Experience:

• Mail. DAT and Mail. XML are fundamental to the electronic data exchange of mailing information. Experience with Mail. DAT, and Mail. XML specification (highly desired but not required). • Demonstrated experience with automation testing tool using Artificial Intelligence (AI) or similar