Software Quality Assurance Tester

DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

Texas Education Agency requires the services of 1 QA Engineer Automated 2, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of QA Engineer Automated 2, Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Education Agency.



All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Education Agency and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Education Agency will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

The Software QA Analyst performs advanced and/or supervisory computer systems analysis and team lead work, administering the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the QA division of IT (Information Technology). 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 project development teams 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

3) Perform manual testing and data validation

4) Perform advanced SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data

5) 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

6) Execute performance and accessibility testing

7) Review user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate applications or to improve existing systems.

8) Collaborate with the project team for sprint/release work on tasks such as providing testing effort estimates, resolving defects or issues and providing status on work assignments or issues.

The QA group supports and facilitates the implementation of all apps/projects in the Texas Education Agency.

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
3	Required	XML, JSON, API Testing
2	Required	Automation Testing experience
2	Preferred	Experience in API testing (SOAP and REST).
1	Preferred	Test automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks
1	Preferred	Experience with test frameworks like Junit, TestNG
1	Preferred	WAPT Pro/Jmeter or other performance testing tools
1	Preferred	Previous experience with Zypher Scale preferred
1	Preferred	Previous experience with Jira preferred

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