Software Tester/Technical Writer- 2957131

Job Title: Software Tester/Technical Writer

Location: Merrifield, VA 22082

Salary/Payrate: $43/HR on 10-99 or $80K

Work Environment: Hybrid – Remote work 2 days a week (once the employee is acclimated to the team/work).

Term: Contract to Hire

Bachelor’s degree required: No

Referral Fee: $500 - Refer qualified colleague, friends, or family.

Job Description

Our federal client is looking to hire a Software Tester/Technical Writer for a hybrid role in Merrifield, VA. Please send your resume in WORD format should you be interested in exploring this role. The position is on a contract to hire basis and will pay an hourly rate of $38 - $43/HR 1099. We also offer the option of $75K to $80K W2, with full benefits and PTO. This role will allow for remote work 2 days a week (once the employee is acclimated to the team/work).

***Due to the required clearance with our government client, only US Citizens, Green Card and Green Card EAD holders may be considered. Clearance requires that the candidates have resided in the US for the past five years. The selected candidate cannot have left the country for longer than 90 consecutive days and no more than 180 cumulative days***

• Collaborate with stakeholders from various departments to gather detailed business requirements and objectives, facilitating effective communication and alignment between business needs and IT solutions.
• Support change management and training efforts when implementing new processes or systems.
• Conducted SIT testing and communicated results to developers and stakeholders.
• Conducted user acceptance testing with end users to validate implemented solutions, ensuring that deliverables met business expectations and functional requirements.
• As the subject matter expert, facilitate communication and act as a liaison between the technical development team and the PMO/business customers to manage expectations and convey project timelines.
• Use SQL queries to analyze data and extract relevant information, providing valuable insights to support decision-making processes.
• Utilized business analysis techniques such as writing user stories and using Visio to create process flow diagrams to document and elicit functional requirements, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of system requirements for IT projects.
• Translate business requirements into clear, actionable functional requirements and CR’s.
• Manage the team’s backlog and align backlog items with the current sprint workload.
• Create CR’s, delegate tasks to developers and close out tasks when completed.
• Level 2 field support in Service Now.
• Write and edit new and existing technical documents including API style guides and ICD’s. Maintain strict version control.
• File all teams’ documents in an organized and maintained SharePoint.

Job Requirements

• Ability to analyze functional and system requirements.
• Experience to develops and document system test strategies, test plans and test cases.
• Ability to manage updates and revisions of the test plans.
• Ability to conduct system testing based on developed test plans and test cases.
• Experience documenting and analyzing test results.
• Ability to assist development teams in debugging and reproducing reported issues.
• Experience generating and maintaining SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) artifacts.
• Ability to document and maintain updates on requirements traceability.
• Experience in helping to ensure high quality content conformity to standards.
• Experience in conducting research and gathering of technical information for use in written documents.
• Ability to apply interpersonal and interviewing skills to gather needed information from stakeholders to support writing activities.
• Experience in recording, tracking, and reporting on defects and their resolution.

Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in area of specialty and 3 years of professional service in the field or in a related area.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to obtain Sensitive clearance.
• Familiarity with section 508 compliant UI design is a plus.
• Familiarity with bug tracking systems.
• Strong writing and communication skills.
• To be able to analyzes datasets to identify quality issues.