What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software QA Engineer position at Allied Consultants, Inc.?
Overview
Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Software QA Engineer to be a key resource on a technical services team.
Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.
Responsibilities
The Software QA Engineer performs advanced and/or supervisory computer systems analysis and teamwork, administering the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the Quality Assurance (QA) section of IT-SEDS (Information Technology – Statewide Education Data System). Work involves planning, 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:
- Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop detailed test cases
- Create and 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
- Execute performance and accessibility testing
- Experience in Selenium and TestNG using Java Language
The QA group supports and facilitates the implementation of all apps/projects in the client.
**Location of job: 100% Remote**
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
Database/SQL Language
3
Preferred
Testing automation experience with Selenium and TesING
3
Preferred
Experience with tools like WAPT Pro, Jmeter, or other performance testing tools
2
Preferred
Previous experience with JIRA preferred
2
Preferred
Previous experience with Zypher Scale preferred
