Job Description
CSCI Consulting is seeking a Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst to support its Department of War (DoW / DoD) client. This role is responsible for validating that configured functionality, integrations, calculations, workflows, and reporting capabilities operate as intended before release and deployment.
The QA Analyst will work closely with functional consultants, developers, business stakeholders, finance users, and project leadership to support test planning, test execution, defect management, regression testing, and deployment readiness activities. This position plays a critical role throughout System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), agency certification, validation, deployment, and post-production stabilization efforts in a highly controlled federal program environment.
Responsibilities
- Support planning and execution of System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and production readiness activities
- Develop test cases, test scripts, and validation scenarios based on approved business requirements, process designs, controls, and expected system behavior
- Verify configuration and system functionality trace to approved functional and technical requirements
- Execute test scripts and document results across financial processes, workflows, calculations, reports, dashboards, and system interfaces
- Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution and retesting
- Coordinate with developers, functional analysts, and stakeholders to investigate issues and validate corrective actions
- Perform regression testing to ensure existing functionality remains stable following enhancements or defect remediation
- Validate test data quality, completeness, and suitability for business scenarios and reporting requirements
- Confirm end-to-end processing from source data through calculations, reconciliations, reporting outputs, and downstream system integrations
- Maintain test evidence, execution logs, defect records, traceability documentation, and sign-off support materials
- Support business user readiness activities and help track critical issues affecting deployment decisions
- Participate in go-live support, hypercare, and post-production validation to ensure operational stability
Minimum Requirements
- Active Secret Clearance required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, Computer Science, or related field
- 5-10+ years of experience supporting quality assurance, testing, validation, or system certification activities for enterprise applications
- Experience supporting OneStream, ERP, EPM, financial management, or enterprise business system implementations
- Strong understanding of testing methodologies, including test planning, script development, execution, defect management, regression testing, and sign-off processes
- Ability to translate business requirements, process flows, controls, and reporting needs into structured test scenarios and validation procedures
Preferred Skills
- Experience supporting federal financial management, budgeting, accounting, reporting, or performance management systems
- Knowledge of testing tools such as Azure DevOps, Jira, HP ALM, TestRail, or similar platforms
- Experience supporting Agile, hybrid Agile, or waterfall implementation methodologies