Sr Quality Assurance Analyst

Brief Description of Sunnova

Sunnova (NYSE: NOVA) is an industry-leading adaptive energy services company focused on making clean energy more accessible, reliable, and affordable for homeowners and businesses.

At Sunnova, we embrace diverse perspectives, vibrant creativity and forward-thinkers who share our zeal for a sustainable future. A career with us means pushing beyond traditional limits, exploring new horizons, collaborating with like-minded peers, and transforming the energy industry for the better.

If you're excited about being a part of the fastest-growing segment of the energy industry, we encourage you to apply!

THE SR QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST POSITION

Sunnova is seeking a highly proficient Senior QA Analyst with a strong background in functional testing, performance testing, and testing on the AWS platform. In this role, you'll be pivotal in developing and maintaining comprehensive test plans that span various testing methodologies, including integration, regression, and smoke testing, with a focus on Salesforce and related systems. You'll collaborate closely with agile teams, ensuring that test efforts are tightly aligned with business requirements and user stories. Utilizing your expertise in DevOps and AWS, you'll enhance testing processes and drive the integration of automated testing within our development pipelines. Your responsibilities will also include conducting thorough requirement analysis, creating detailed QA documentation, managing testing timelines, and providing strategic feedback to ensure quality and efficiency. Additionally, you'll serve as a key resource in complex testing scenarios, facilitating UAT sessions, and identifying key areas for test automation to support continuous improvement.

If the opportunity to be a key leader in building out the Quality Assurance practice for Sunnova, please read on!

SR QUALITY ASSURANCE ANALYST RESPONSIBILITIES

•Responsible for the creation, execution and maintenance of test plans and test cases, including functional testing and non-functional testing, integration, regression and smoke testing for Salesforce and related applications for multiple areas.

•Collaborate with agile team on project related requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure test cases align properly with user stories and business needs. Provide testing estimates for use in setting delivery schedules.

•Ability to quickly grasp the needs of the business unit and system requirements to assist in identifying test cases and regression test scenarios. Perform requirement analysis to assess completeness and testability.

•Create and maintain test strategies, plans, standards, and processes, including requirement gathering, workload modeling, test script building, execution, environment monitoring, and result analysis.

•Develop, maintain, and execute performance test scripts using JMeter, Visual Studio, and other relevant tools.

•Implement automated testing scripts using Java, Python, and JavaScript for both projects and enterprise regression tests.

•Develop and maintain performance test scripts for web services, XML, SOAP, and WSDL testing.

•Provide timely feedback and constructive recommendations to scrum team related to testing. Escalate and report risks and problems.

•Take ownership of assigned testing areas and track issues from identification to total resolution.

•Understand priorities when testing multiple issues and projects under strict timelines.

•Facilitate clear communication with pod leadership, DevOps, QA Lead/Manager and applicable team members to escalate issues appropriately and inform stakeholders of testing progress.

•Acts as Subject Matter Expert conducting complex software/systems testing.

•Facilitate UAT session by demonstrating application functionality.

•Using test management tool for bug reporting and to build test scripts for individual modules with a focus on creating a comprehensive test plan.

•Schedule needs to be flexible to the needs of the business and may require occasional weekend or evening availability to facilitate software releases.

•Identify and document regression scenarios for multiple application areas and work with QA Lead/Manager to identify cases for automation.

•Exhibit the ability to adapt quickly to changing business needs/timelines to make decisions and meet quality standards.

•Work with QA Lead/Manager to formulate and maintain quality objectives.

•Review test strategies and provide feedback to other QAs as assigned.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

•Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; degree in computer science or related field is preferred.

•4+ years of software testing experience.

•2+ years of experience testing on at least two tech stacks, such as Salesforce, AWS, mobile, etc.

•2+ years of experience with agile frameworks and delivery methodology.

•Ability to organize and prioritize individual workload to meet required deadlines.

•Ability to work as part of a team in a matrix environment.

•Ability to mentor and coach others.

•Legally authorized to work in the US for ANY employer

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

•Experience in implementing quality assurance practices in a software development environment.

•Knowledge of Agile methodologies and practices.

•Certification in quality assurance or related field (e.g., ISTQB certification).

•Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

•Extensive experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Appium)

•Proficient in performance testing tools (JMeter, LoadRunner) and techniques

WORKING CONDITIONS

•Extended periods of time working at computer workstation 

•Schedule needs to be flexible to the needs of the business and may require occasional weekend or evening availability to support software releases

BENEFITS

Sunnova offers a generous employee reward package that includes:

•Comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, healthcare flexible spending account, and 401(k) with employer match.

•Competitive compensation & annual bonus

•Paid time off, including 11 holidays and Paid Parental Leave

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.

We appreciate the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), and we are looking to hire real people. If you use AI for any part of the job application process, we highly encourage that you review any AI generated content to ensure your personality and unique capabilities are highlighted. We reserve the right to disqualify candidates that we reasonably believe solely relied on AI generated content in the application process.

If you are selected for a position, your employment will be contingent upon submission to and successful completion of a post-offer/pre-placement drug test (and medical examination if required by the role) as well as pre-placement verification of the information and qualifications provided during the selection process.