Remote-Software Quality Assurance Tester-(Required Education industry experience)

Client: State of TX Job ID: 70123022 Respond by : 09/07/22 Rate: DOE Type: Contract Please respond with resume and 3 references preferably supervisor (name, title, company, email, phone number) Preference will be given to candidates who meet all preferred skills and have public sector experience Background Check will be performed if a candidate is selected for placement and will have to be passed Remote Work will be allowed Job Description 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 cases 2) Create and execute 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 Strategic Compensation Operations Management System (SCOMS) supports and facilitates the generation of Teacher Incentive Allotment funding for districts in order for them to reward their top performers. II. 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 2 Required XML 2 Required Automation Testing experience 2 Preferred Test automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks 2 Preferred Experience with test frameworks like Junit, TestNG 2 Preferred WAPT Pro or other performance testing tools 2 Preferred Experience in API testing (SOAP and REST). 1 Preferred Previous experience with Zypher Scale preferred 1 Preferred Previous experience with Jira preferred 1 Preferred Previous experience with TEA's Strategic Compensation Operations Management System (SCOMS) preferred III. TERMS OF SERVICE Services are expected to start 09/15/2022 and are expected to complete by 08/31/2023. Total estimated hours per Candidate shall not exceed 1736 hours. This service may be amended, renewed, and/or extended providing both parties agree to do so in writing.