Tester Expert

This tester will work in the Quality Assurance team in the Albany, NY location. The candidate will have responsibilities to coordinate user acceptance testing, test applications, track all testing activities during the life cycle of the assigned project, report updates to management, as well as day to day tasks defined for this position. Operating under the direction of ITS staff.

 

• Provide guidelines, reviews, and support to developers and business analysts by creating functional tests to test applications built by developers.
• Perform testing activities, including UI automation, integration testing, and functional testing
• Develop Test cases per the Business Rules in order to perform or provide direction to others on testing requirements.
• Review and provide guidance on the test scope and output of testers performing testing
• Facilitate, record and capture information from demos and user experience sessions.
• Create status reporting mechanisms to monitor the status of the above activities
• Host integration discussions, with representatives of all test teams, identify and help resolve roadblocks
• Ensure that requirements and deliverables are verified and validated at each testing phase and final acceptance
• Prepare test protocols and reports which meet regulatory requirements, during the final test cycle
• Help keep test processes streamlined for efficiency
• Be the primary advocate for the adoption of methodologies which are appropriate for the project
• Use Microsoft office tools for testing activities and communications with team members and management. Tester 
  
   

Conducts automated and manual tests to ensure that the software created/upgraded performs as necessary and meets the user requirements. Develops and maintains user and technical documentation and project process documentation for application teams. Understands the view of applications and/or technology and is able to put procedures in a logical sequence. Expert 

84+ Months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field. 

Qualifications

Position Requested Qualifications (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.5) 

Requested Qualification 

Notes To Agency

 

• Points assigned will change depending on the number of Qualifications submitted
• There is no requirement to have 10 Qualifications.
• Only Number of Months is an allowable unit of measurement for experience. 
  
   

84 Months experience with detailed team leadership responsibilities as the lead project tester working on highly technical projects that required over five thousand hours of resource time. 84 Months of experience planning, designing, developing, and executing test plans based on business requirements and functional specifications. 84 Months of experience coordinating, tracking, and analyzing testing activities. 84 Months of experience creating test plans to be used by business application owners (client agencies) and managing User Acceptance Testing activities performed by the application users. 84 Months of experience using functional test tools to execute automated tests. Examples would be Micro-Focus UFT, Python. Experience must include the design, build, coding, and execution of automated test functions. 84 Months of experience using Micro Focus ALM (formerly known as Client Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center). 84 Months of experience recording and customizing automated functional tests. 84 Months experience creating SQL queries to validate correct back-end processing Bachelors Degree in computer science