Quality Assurance Test Analyst
First seen by Alion on Oct 13, 2026.
Key Roles and Responsibilities :
1. Requirement Analysis :
- Understand business requirements, functional specifications, and project documents.
2. Test Planning :
- Prepare test plans, testing strategies, and test scenarios based on requirements.
3. Test Case Design :
- Create detailed test cases, test scripts, and test data.
4. Manual Testing :
- Execute test cases manually to verify application functionality.
5. Automation Testing :
- Develop and execute automated test scripts using tools such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright, where applicable.
6. Functional Testing :
- Verify that application features work according to the requirements.
7. Regression Testing :
- Ensure that new changes do not affect existing functionalities.
8. Defect Identification and Reporting :
- Identify bugs, document defects, and track them using tools such as Jira or Bugzilla.
9. Retesting :
- Verify whether reported defects have been fixed successfully.
10. Integration Testing :
- Check whether different application modules work together correctly.
11. API Testing :
- Validate API requests, responses, and data using tools such as Postman, where required.
12. Database Testing :
- Validate data accuracy and consistency using SQL queries, where applicable.
13. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) Support :
- Assist business users in validating the application against their requirements.
14. Test Reporting :
- Prepare test execution reports, defect summaries, and testing status updates.
15. Team Collaboration :
- Coordinate with developers, business analysts, project managers, and other QA team members.
Skills
Software Quality Assurance, Testing, Automation Testing, Manual Testing, Functional Testing, Integration Testing, API Testing, Defect/Bug Reports, Test Analyst