Software Quality Assurance Tester

Job Description
All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Education Agency and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Education Agency will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

The Software QA Analyst performs advanced and/or supervisory computer systems analysis and team lead work, administering the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the QA division of IT (Information Technology). 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 project development teams to provide the following Software Testing Services:

1) Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop detailed test cases

2) Create and execute manual and automated functional and regression test cases, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail

4) Perform manual testing and data validation

5) Perform SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data

6) 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 team

7) Execute performance and accessibility testing

The QA group supports and facilitates the implementation of all apps/projects in the Texas Education Agency.

Requirements

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

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.

Years
Required/Preferred
Experience
7
Required
Testing complex Web Applications
7
Required
Testing all phases of Software Development Life Cycle
3
Required
Database/SQL Language
3
Required
Creating Automation test cases
2
Required
API, JSON, MXL
5
Preferred
Test automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks
5
Preferred
Experience with test frameworks such TestNG, JUnit, BDD
2
Preferred
Experience in API testing (SOAP and REST)
1
Preferred
WAPT Pro, Jmeter, or other performance testing tools
1
Preferred
Experience testing .NET applications
1
Preferred
Experience working with Power BI
1
Preferred
Previous experience with Zephyr Scale preferred
1
Preferred
Previous experience with JIRA preferred