at Alight Solutions LLC in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Our story
At Alight, we believe a company's success starts with its people. At our core, we Champion People, help our colleagues Grow with Purpose and true to our name we encourage colleagues to "Be Alight."
It's why we're so driven to connect passion with purpose. Our team's expertise in human insights and cloud technology, gives companies and employees around the world the ability to power confident decisions, for life.
With a comprehensive total rewards package, continuing education and training, and tremendous potential with a growing global organization, Alight is the perfect place to put your passion to work.
Join our team if you Champion People, want to Grow with Purpose through acting with integrity and if you embody the meaning of Be Alight.
Learn more at careers.alight.com
The Test Analyst is accountable to test and sign-off on the quality of the solution ensuring that it meets client requirements and acceptance criteria as defined by the Solution Leader and agreed upon by the Business Sponsor. The Test Analyst will create test environments, update configuration, and troubleshoot configuration issues, and will setup realistic test participant data. The Test Analyst will create and execute test cases and works with the Solution Leader to prepare for User Acceptance Testing.
What you'll Do:
Requirement Analysis: As needed, the Test Analyst participates in requirements meetings to determine client impact and testing coverage needs with the Solution Leader, Business Sponsor, and other Test Analysts.
Participates in Sprint Planning meetings by making sure to understand user stories and acceptance criteria, to determine system impact and provide input on testing requirements, environment needs, non-functional requirements and effort estimates for testing deliverables.
The Test Analyst is responsible for creating the Test Plan. Will work directly with the Solution Leader when clarification is needed.
Sprint Planning: The Test Analyst participates in team Sprint Planning sessions by providing effort estimates and feedback on testing tasks.
Makes sure to understand the acceptance criteria for each user story aligned to the sprint.
Product Owner & Sponsor Review Provides the environment and participants to use for the Product Owner and Sponsor Review meetings.
Participates in Product Owner Reviews, by providing feedback on the functionality being reviewed.
Will update testing documentation for any changes or updates as a result of the feedback.
Prepare Test Environment: The Test Analyst creates test environments using realistic client participant/provision data and performs cloning and configuration activities as needed. Creates test data (person and/or provision) to be used in the development and test execution activities.
Partners with the Solution Leader and other Test Analysts to prepare for external User Acceptance Testing.
Create and Execute Test Cases: The Test Analyst designs and stores test cases accordingly and performs test coverage analysis to ensure client requirements and key acceptance criteria are covered and invalid and out-of-scope scenarios are removed.
Makes sure test cases are reviewed by the Solution Leader and other project team members. Executes functional and non-functional test cases, using automated testing, as much as possible.
Reviews unexpected results for origination of the defect (test data, requirements, coding) and works with the Development team and Solution Leader to get defects resolved or put into the backlog for future prioritization.
Execute internal test of the Acceptance Test Cases prior to the beginning of User Acceptance Testing.
Ensures High Quality Deployment: Updates related knowledge configuration within tooling to support end user adoption.
Creates and provides input on the necessary release and technical documentation used for deployment.
Contributes to smooth deployment and transition to production through beta/early adopter support and related activities.
What you 'll Need:
Bachelor's degree (with preferred concentrations in Math, Actuarial Science, Finance, Computer Science, Economics, MIS, Engineering) or equivalent work experience
Understands Testing life cycle, testing processes, testing terminology
Strong learning agility
Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills
Able to work and coordinate effectively with others in virtual... For full info follow application link.
Alight Solutions provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition, veteran, marital, parental, citizenship, or domestic partner status, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law. Alight Solutions is committed to a diverse workforce and is an
