QA Engineer

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 Educator Certification Online System (ECOS) development team to provide the following Software Testing Services:

 

• Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop detailed test cases
• Create/Modify/Execute automated functional and regression test cases, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail
• Perform manual testing and data validation.
• Perform SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data
• 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.
  
   

The Educator Certification Online System (ECOS) supports and facilitates the certification of Texas educators.

Qualifications

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 5 Required Automation Testing 3 Required Database / SQL testing 2 Required XML 2 Preferred Test automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks 2 Preferred Experience in API testing (SOAP and REST). 2 Preferred Experience with test frameworks like Junit, TestNG 2 Preferred WAPT Pro or other performance testing tools 1 Preferred Previous experience with TEA's Educator Certification Online System (ECOS) preferred 1 Preferred Previous experience with Zypher Scale preferred 1 Preferred Previous experience with Jira preferred