Location: Vancouver, WashingtonType: ContractJob #7242Overview:ACS Professional Staffing is looking for an employee to work on-site with our client. The Quality Assurance Analyst 3 position will support large multi-year projects while performing Operations and Maintenance key QA tasks such as test script development and execution, defect tracking, test coordination, test environment verification, and data quality management. This full-time position is located in Vancouver, WA.Pay range: $41.68 - $59.55Benefits:Paid holidays: 11 PTO: Starting at 10 days Federal Sick Leave: Up to 56 hours per year (prorated based on start date) EAP: Employee Assistance Program Benefit Options Available: Medical, Dental, Vision, FSA, HSA, HRA, Group Life/AD&D, Voluntary Life/AD&D, Voluntary Short-Term Disability, Voluntary Long-Term Disability, Voluntary Critical Illness, Voluntary Accident, 401k (immediately eligible for employee and employer (matching up to 4%) contributions) Other benefits include the following: Calm App, Access Perks, Cigna offers fitness discounts (gym or home), and a meal kit program for those enrolled in medical insurance.Responsibilities:Facilitate, articulate, and implement the quality assurance approach for the Quality Plan and the Product Test Plan, from review of requirements for the product's use Create, coordinate, and execute manual and automated application tests. Assist in the design and writing of tests that will be used in system integration, functional, and acceptance testing. Assist with developing programmatic test plans, cases, scripts, and related documentation for a complex, highly secure suite of Internet/intranet applications. Facilitate quality assurance objectives for assigned projects. Prepare time estimates, communicate resource requirements, and provide timely progress reports to the program, project managers, and QA Lead. Coordinate and facilitate test environments, testers, and developers among multiple projects during the testing phase. Perform installation and unit testing to verify the correct operation of an upgraded application Perform defect management, including inputting defects, updating status, determining severity, verifying fixes, and producing defect reports. QAs do not determine when solutions are delivered or the priorities of defects. Read and run compares on sanitized test databases using database skills such as XML, Oracle, or SQL. Provide presentations on testing deliverables, milestones, and reports on quality discrepancies. Help create Test Driven Development (TDD) automated tests for production code. Use multiple methods such as Waterfall Modeling, Agile Modeling, and others to model and document test cases. Adapt to current industry QA standards and systems and assist the manager in policy, process, and procedure development to align with them. Assist the QA manager in implementing QA goals and objectives. Develop manual test scripts to support functional and non-functional testing. Recommend processes for the monitoring and reviewing standards for consistency and goal definition. Configure testing resources and tools to evaluate application functionality, integration, and performance. Facilitate and coordinate the creation of test requirements, plans, and manual test scripts by functional users and technical leads. Attend project and requirement reviews and verification of test scripts. Verify that requirements are identified, clear, needed, and testable. Review product interface specifications. Help resolve requirement definition problems. Compare user needs to project requirements. Review and recommend changes to Functional Requirements through use cases and other testing documents. Perform technical writing. Facilitate portions of the project's QA efforts, including performing manual functional QA testing and assisting other QA Testers. Identify problems and track them until they are resolved. Monitor