Quality Assurance Tester

The Software QA Engineer performs advanced and/or supervisory computer systems analysis and team lead work, administering the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) section of IT-SEDS (Information Technology – Statewide Education Data System). Work involves planning, budgeting, and analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing systems. This position will work with the Strategic Compensation Operations Management System (SCOMS) development team to provide the following Software Testing Services:1) Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop detailed test cases2) Create and execute automated functional and regression test cases, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail4) Perform manual testing and data validation5) Perform SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data6) Work with development team and customers to clearly understand the functionality under test to define and implement test case automation and clearly communicate to the team7) Execute performance and accessibility testing Minimum Requirements:Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity. YearsRequired/PreferredExperience7RequiredTesting complex web applications7RequiredTesting all phases of software development life-cycle3RequiredDatabase/ SQL Language2RequiredXML2RequiredAutomation Testing experience2PreferredTest automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks2PreferredExperience with test frameworks like Junit, TestNG2PreferredWAPT Pro or other performance testing tools2PreferredExperience in API testing (SOAP and REST).1PreferredPrevious experience with Zypher Scale preferred1PreferredPrevious experience with Jira preferred1PreferredPrevious experience with TEA's Strategic Compensation Operations Management System (SCOMS) preferred