QA Engineer

The Software QA Engineer performs advanced and/or supervisory computer systems analysis and team lead work, 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, budgeting, and analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing systems. 

This position will work with the FSP development team 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 against HTML, PDF, and Excel Reports, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail 

3) Perform SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data 

4) 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 

5) Execute performance and accessibility testing 

6) Perform manual testing and data validation 

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

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 
7  | Required  | Testing automation experience with Selenium and TestNG 
5  | Required  | Advanced Database/SQL Language 
3  | Required  | Experience with Java Programming Language 
2  | Required  | Experience Using Apache POI and Apache PDFBox 
2  | Required  | Experience with WAPT Pro, Jmeter, or other performance testing tools 
3  | Preferred  | Experience parsing WebTables to Verify Results 
2  | Preferred  | Previous experience with Zephyr Scale preferred 
2  | Preferred  | Previous experience with JIRA preferred 

WORK HOURS AND LOCATION 
 

Services shall be provided during normal business hours unless otherwise coordinated through the Texas Education Agency. Normal business hours are Monday through Friday from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, excluding State holidays when the agency is closed.

The primary work location(s) will be at 100% Remote, Work Location With-in the United States. The working position is Telework.