What are the responsibilities and job description for the IT Quality Assurance - Journey position at State of Washington Office of Financial Management?
Description
Hybrid: Our physical office is in Olympia, WA. We offer flexible work schedules and locations. This is a hybrid position where most of the work allows teleworking. However, you will need to travel to in-person activities, meetings, and events according to business needs.
Why work for OFM
The Office of Financial Management (OFM) serves as the backbone of Washington state government. Our mission is to make our state a better place by connecting people, budgets, policies, data, and systems for state agencies and the Legislature. Our team includes budget advisors, researchers, and other experts, all dedicated public servants working towards an equitable future for every Washingtonian. If you want to play a key role in enhancing how state government serves its citizens, you’ve found the right place. Join us in making a meaningful difference for every Washingtonian!
The job opportunity
Are you ready to take your technical career to the next level? We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Quality Assurance Tester to join our team as a trusted expert in enterprise application testing, quality assurance, configuration, or development. In this exciting and high-impact role, you’ll work independently on critical statewide financial, budget, and legislative systems that support multiple agencies and directly influence the operations of the Executive Branch. These are high-risk, high-profile systems—your expertise will be essential to maintaining their reliability, performance, and security. This is your opportunity to apply advanced technical skills to initiatives that matter, collaborate with top professionals across state government, and make a meaningful difference in the way Washington serves its people. If you’re passionate about technology, thrive in complex environments, and want your work to have a statewide impact, we want to hear from you!
Duties
What you will work on
- Develop test plans to identify the scope of the testing effort, methodology, features and functions to be tested for validating system changes.
- Translate business and system requirements into test scripts and conditions.
- Develop or configure solutions to meet functional and design specifications and requirements.
- Develop and execute positive, negative and regression testing and verify outcomes against expected results, to include functional, technical and end-to-end testing.
- Identify, isolate, replicate and report defects and verify defect fixes.
- Analyze business requirements and design documents for completeness and testability.
- Identify and communicate risks that may jeopardize testing activities.
- Provide guidance and consultation of testing activities to internal and external teams.
- Work with development team to ensure that the business requirements and acceptance criteria have been met.
- Participate in peer review of other work efforts.
- Develop, document and maintain test artifacts such as test plans, test scenarios, test data and test scripts.
- Use Azure DevOps (AZDO) to document, track testing results and track defects related to enhancements or maintenance requests.
- Develop and maintain testing documentation and artifacts in an identified repository.
Qualifications
What we need you to bring
Required Qualifications:
- Five (5) years of information technology experience in quality assurance testing of systems/applications to include writing and executing test plans, test cases, test procedures, test scripts and documenting expected results.
- Associate's degree OR equivalent to two years of vocational training in computer science or related field of study AND (2) years of information technology experience in quality assurance testing of systems/applications to include writing and executing test plans, test cases, test procedures, test scripts and documenting expected results.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field of study, Information Systems or related technical/business discipline AND one year of information technology experience in quality assurance testing of systems/applications to include writing and executing test plans, test cases, test procedures, test scripts and documenting expected results.
- Two (2) years experience using a defect tracking tool.
- Two (2) years knowledge of security and/or performance/stress/load testing.
- One (1) year experience using test automation tools.
- Experience using Microsoft SharePoint. Financial and/or state government knowledge.
- Strong problem solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong verbal and written communications.
- Ability to learn complex processes and information quickly.
- Demonstrated commitment to teamwork, customer service, and working under tight deadlines.
- Experience with using Microsoft Azure DevOps for creating managing and running tests, using the Coded UI test framework to automate UI tests, and issue tracking.
- The ability to create test data in a relational database, in a delimited text file, or in XML.
- An understanding of HTML and CSS.
- Experience testing mobile applications.
Supplemental Information
Application Process:
Once you’ve decided to apply for a state government job, you’ll complete an online application to showcase your qualifications. Keep in mind that once you submit the application, a real person is going to read it. We do not use AI or other technology that screens your application and rejects it. So please be sure to provide clear and detailed information about your work history so your qualifications can be accurately assessed. We will contact the top candidates directly to schedule interviews. If you need reasonable accommodation in applying, please call 7-1-1 or 1-800-833-6384.
Your application will not be considered complete and sent to the hiring teams for review, unless you attach all of the following:
- Cover letter: describing your experience, skills, and contributions you will bring to this leadership role, along with the values you will bring to the team and organization if you are chosen for this position.
- Resume: that details your applicable experience and education.
- References: At least three professional references with current phone numbers.
Questions:
OFM's Staff ASL interpreter is available to all deaf and hard of hearing applicants. For questions about this recruitment or to request a reasonable accommodation in the application or interview process, please email us at TalentAcquisition@ofm.wa.gov.
The Office of Financial Management is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a working environment that includes and respects cultural, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and gender identity diversity. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, persons of disability, persons over 40 years of age, and disabled and Vietnam-era veterans are encouraged to apply.
This position is exempt from civil service rules.
For more information, please see WAC 357-19-195.