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Texas Education Agency · 1 day ago

Software Quality Assurance Tester (Systems Analyst V)

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

4+ years exp

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is dedicated to improving outcomes for all public-school students in Texas. The Software Quality Assurance Tester will perform advanced systems analysis and lead the Quality Assurance team, ensuring thorough testing and quality of software systems used by the agency.

Education

Responsibilities

Perform detailed analysis and review of all available requirements keeping the big picture in mind and understanding the ripple effects of a given change; design test strategy and create detailed test plans, test cases/scripts to ensure all software developed meets the defined requirements prior to the production release

Perform thorough testing of the application in the test environment and create test data as needed to ensure that all the requirements are covered; perform functional, regression, accessibility, and exploratory testing of the application in an efficient manner leading to a quality product being deployed to production; estimate testing activities accurately to ensure that testing timelines do not impact release schedules

Participate in the design and planning of automation for applications. Identify test scenarios to automate including critical path, high risk functionality, tests prone to human error, tests that require multiple data sets, tests that take more time to perform manually and tests that are repetitive

Communicate regularly with the Project manager, technical lead, dev team members, customers and QA manager about testing tasks and results to understand project needs and propose corrective action as needed; provide status of work assignments and issues to management in a timely manner; trains other team members to be equally productive and independent; create how-to documents for other team members to use

Qualification

Testing complex web applicationsAgile development environmentSeleniumFunctional automationSQL based languageOracle 10gGreaterSoftware Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Technical assistanceAnalyzing requirement documentsPrioritizing workCommunication skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university

At least four [4] years of experience in testing complex web applications

Education and experience may substitute for one another on a year-for-year basis

Share the belief that all Texas students can achieve at high levels and are able to succeed in college, career, or the military

Ability to work well in a cross-functional organization including expertise to communicate well with management, peers, and cross-functional teams

Skill in analyzing complex requirement documents and creating detailed test cases from them

Knowledge of working in an agile development environment and following agile processes and procedures

Skill in making sound decisions about quality of software, especially to determine production readiness

Skill in prioritizing work, based on criticality while working on multiple tasks

Ability to learn new concepts and new skills quickly

Capability of and staying current on current industry standards and best practices for testing of TEA systems

Skill in analyzing, evaluating, and testing new or existing procedures, standard tools, techniques, information systems, or utility programs for accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and or process improvement

Ability to provide technical assistance, expertise and support to internal and external users and customers including the ability to provide technical concepts to professional, non-technical customers

Capability to assess and communicate resource needs and project status in a timely manner

Expertise in providing, developing, and recommending innovative solutions to increase test productivity and product quality

Ability to work in a cube environment with potential for significant auditory distractions