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One day remote.\nDepartment Name: Technology Organization\nRole Overview\nThe Technology Organization’s Customer Engagement portfolio is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst focused on our customer-facing Mobile App for iOS and Android. Help deliver reliable customer experiences through hands-on testing, thoughtful test coverage, and strong test-data preparation.\nAs an embedded member of the Mobile App scrum team, you will translate requirements into test cases, execute functional and regression testing, and collaborate with QA colleagues, developers, and Product Owners to identify and resolve defects. Strong SQL skills are preferred to independently identify test accounts and retrieve scenario-specific data from Oracle Utilities Customer to Meter (C2M). Prior C2M or Customer Care and Billing (CC&B) experience is preferred, not required.\nThis is a hybrid position with an expectation of working onsite in Atlanta or Birmingham four days per week, with one remote day.\nKey Responsibilities\nPerform as an embedded QA member within a SAFe Agile framework, contributing to sprint planning, backlog refinement, PI objectives, and team-level quality outcomes \nDesign, write, execute, and maintain manual test cases for the Mobile App on iOS and Android based on business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria\nContribute to test automation efforts as skills and opportunities allow; automation experience is not required\nPartner with Product Owners and developers during backlog refinement to clarify requirements, identify test scenarios, and define testable acceptance criteria\nExecute functional, exploratory, integration, regression, and smoke testing for the Mobile App; support user acceptance testing (UAT) and production release validation\nValidate end-to-end customer journeys across iOS and Android devices, operating system versions, and screen sizes, including app updates, interrupted connectivity, and background/resume behavior\nDocument and track defects with reproducible steps, expected and actual results, device and operating system details, and supporting evidence; retest fixes and assess regression impacts\nIndependently write SQL queries, including joins across related tables, to identify test accounts, retrieve scenario-specific data from C2M, and validate backend results for Mobile App testing\n\nMaintain testing artifacts and evidence to support traceability and quality validation\n\nCommunicate test coverage, execution progress, defects, and unresolved risks clearly to support release-readiness decisions\nContribute to continuous improvement of testing practices, tools, and processes\nTools & Technologies\nAgile & Work Management: SAFe Agile framework, Jira \nTest Management: Xray integrated with Jira is a plus \nMobile Platforms & Devices: iOS and Android; experience with real-device cloud testing platforms or device farms is a plus\nTest Automation [LB1 ]: Experience with test automation tools or frameworks (Tosca, Appium, etc.) is a plus, not required\n\nAPI Testing: Postman is a plus\n\nDatabases & Test Data: SQL query development for test-account identification, test-data retrieval, and backend validation; 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