Junior QA Analyst

Title: Junior QA Analyst | Software Testing & Quality Assurance Location: Hybrid - Atlanta, GA Duration: Contract | Full-Time | ~13-Month Contract Job Description: We are hiring a Junior QA Analyst / Junior Quality Assurance Tester to support full test lifecycle execution across a large-scale government IT environment. This QA Analyst role involves manual testing, UAT facilitation, defect management, and Agile-based quality assurance across custom applications and GIS components. Roles & Responsibilities - Create, document, and execute test plans and manual test scripts; analyze results and report defects and anomalies through the lens of business end users - Support UAT scenario development alongside business subject matter experts and business analysts, and facilitate UAT activities with end users - Collaborate with PMO, business partners, and vendor technical delivery teams to understand and validate business requirements against system behavior - Perform system testing, regression testing, performance testing, security testing, and post-go-live validation across custom applications - Document Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) and confirm application readiness for UAT - Participate in defect triage meetings and sprint demos; report weekly testing status to the QA Testing Lead - Identify bottlenecks and risks in testing timelines and communicate proactively to management - Test GIS components and support quality assurance across mid-to-large-scale software development projects Skills - Quality assurance / QA testing / software quality assurance - Manual testing / automated testing / test script execution - Test plan creation / test case documentation / test results evaluation - UAT facilitation / user acceptance testing / UAT instruction preparation - Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) documentation - Defect management tools / defect triage - Agile methodology / Scrum / SDLC - System testing / regression testing / performance testing / load