Appian Consultant - DevOps & QA Consulting

Remote Contract (7 months 21 days) Published 11 hours ago Quality Assurance \& Testing documentation skills test documentation Test Data Management problem \- solving analytical skills agile methodology Collaboration \& Communication Team member will be joining the ToolSight core team within GE Aerospace as a QA Tester, focusing on setting up the ToolSight software for success in the tooling business. ToolSight is an Appian\-based application being custom designed for the casting tooling business to manage their process. Daily tasks for the team member will include working through QA testing, giving feedback to GE Aerospace / Appian (software partner) during weekly meetings, helping prepare and validate test data for the system, as well as preparing testing documentation in preparation for releases. With our entire working being separated geographically, we will need to be flexible between communicating through Microsoft teams as well as live (large majority of the time) and in person during major releases. **Responsibilities:** 1/2 of time for QA Testing: * Working with Technical Product Manager (TPM), work through QA front end testing of ToolSight in support of bi\-weekly releases. For example, software team will produce a system of updates in week’s 1 \& 2\. Starting in Week 3, QA tester will test the updates (including going back to previous releases/ regression testing) and finish by the EOW week 4\. Then this will continue a periodic basis for release launches. TPM will create initial testing packages for QA tester to work through, QA tester may create their own / give feedback for future sprints to cover testing effectiveness. 1/4 of time for Data Input / Validation: * Input – the team has test data that will need to be fed into the ToolSight system to support QA activities, so this would require manipulation, communication amongst the working team, and accessing the dev system to feed data in themselves for specific trials. Excel manipulation would be the requirement for this working component. * Validation – Team member will need to go into ToolSight and periodically explore data that has been ingested, outside of normal QA activities. Cross comparison to other systems will be critical to make sure project is flowing as intended. ¼ of time for Training documentation * Working with TPM, help create and test training effectiveness as the product continues to grow. * Be available to help individual users navigate through the system while they get first\-time hands\-on experience with. This would happen in total a few days every month leading up to December. * During “Go\-Live” phase, help receive feedback, build a list of long term / short term remediation projects with the team, help with Hypercare activities. QA will be dropped at that point to allow for successful launch of the ToolSight project. **Skills / Competencies:** * Work independently, asking for advice / clarity when needed * Comfortable givi