Software Quality Analyst

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$90,000.00/yr - $/yr

Terms: Full time, salaried;
no contract or sponsorship offered now or in the future.

Salary range: ~$90k-$105k per year plus benefits

Capstone IT is helping our client to hire a Quality Assurance Analyst for our client in Glen Allen, Virginia. This person will ensure high-quality software delivery through thorough testing, effective defect management, and close collaboration within an Agile environment. The role requires strong analytical skills, the ability to quickly understand complex systems, and experience in both manual and automated testing.

This is a full-time, salaried opportunity and is required to be onsite 5 days per week and will be required to attend an onsite interview.

• Understand business and technical requirements by working with Product/Business SMEs and development teams.
• Review requirements for clarity, accuracy, and testability.
• Create, maintain, and execute test plans, scenarios, and cases using requirement documents and logic extracts.
• Document test scenarios, expected results, and execute test sets within the test management tool.
• Perform functional, non-functional, integration, regression, and UAT testing.
• Write and run complex SQL queries to validate database persistence and data integrity.
• Identify, log, and track defects, performing root‑cause analysis when needed.
• Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies and align testing activities with project timelines.
• Determine required test data and identify gaps in the test environment.
• Identify test cases suitable for automation.
• Develop, maintain, and review automation scripts and frameworks (UFT, Playwright, Selenium, Java, Type Script).
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

• Ability to quickly learn and understand complex software systems.
• 7-10 years of experience across software testing types: functional, non‑functional, integration, regression, and UAT.
• 5+ years of experience testing Java applications.
• Strong knowledge of test planning, test case development, and execution.
• Proficiency with HTML, XML, Java, Type Script, and React or Next.js.
• Solid experience with MS SQL and Git.
• Hands‑on experience with Azure Dev Ops (Boards, Repos, Pipelines, Test Plans).
• Experience hosting requirement and test case reviews with developers, QAs, and project stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Agile Scrum and QA’s responsibilities within the process.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to perform root‑cause analysis.
• Automation experience required: UFT and tools such as Playwright or Selenium.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and effectively within a project team.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent subject

Capstone Consulting is an EEO employer.