HBITS-08-15005-Tester-Expert

Knowledge Builders Inc; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Knowledge Builders Inc. seeks a Senior QA Tester for the NY State Electronic Certificate of Need project (NYSE-CON). You will plan, design, and execute tests, track defects, and collaborate with stakeholders to validate business requirements.

The role requires extensive automation experience with tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, and REST tools, plus API testing with Postman/REST Assured. On-site Albany office preferred.

Qualifications

• 84+ months of QA/testing experience.
• Experience designing and executing test plans and test scripts.
• Proficiency with test automation tools and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Create and execute test scripts, scenarios, and plans to validate solutions.
• Document and report test results across environments for stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure requirements are met by NYSE-CON.

Skills

QA testing

User Acceptance Testing

Test Planning

Test Execution

Defect Management

Regression Testing

Tools

Jira

HP ALM

Selenium

Cucumber

Playwright

Cypress

HP UFT

Postman

REST Assured

Python

Java

JavaScript

VBScript

C#

Job description

Project/Program: New York State Electronic Certificate of Need (NYSE-CON).

Job Description: New York State Electronic Certificate of Need (NYSE-CON). This Tester position will be responsible for quality assurance testing, and support of user acceptance testing efforts, for the NYSE-CON project.

Day-to-day Tasks

Daily Tasks will include but are not limited to the following:

• Work as a liaison with stakeholders to elicit, communicate and validate the requirements for new initiatives or changes to current NYSE-CON functionality as determined by stakeholders.
• Conduct analysis of business and user needs and develop business requirements documents in accordance with requirements and protocols that govern NYSE-CON development and implementation.
• Create business documentation (Business Requirement documents, use cases, swim lanes, process documentation) that detail the NYSE-CON application functionality.
• Participate in team planning sessions with technical resources to ensure that solution designs fulfill documented requirements as stipulated by Program staff.
• Create and execute test scripts, scenarios, and test plans to validate technical solutions against documented business requirements.
• Execute and formally document test results, through all test environments, in a format that accurately reports the results for Program’s understanding and support of test acceptance.

Mandatory Qualifications

Tester– Conducts automated and manual tests to ensure that the software created/upgraded performs as necessary and meets the user requirements. Develops and maintains user and technical documentation and project process documentation for application teams. Understands the view of applications and/or technology and is able to put procedures in a logical sequence.

Expert

84+ months: Candidate is able to provide guidance to large teams and/or has extensive industry experience and is considered at the top of his/her field.

Requested Qualifications

• 84 Months of experience in performing quality assurance tasks. (Included but not limited to: Test Readiness Review, Test Planning and Design, Test Execution, Verification and Validation, Defect Management, Performance and Usability Testing, Regression Testing, Test Reporting, etc.).
• 84 Months of experience in the development and execution of software test plans and scenarios.
• 84 Months of experience in functional testing using functional testing tools such as Jira and HP ALM.
• 84 Months of experience designing a test automation framework for a complex, multi-platform application using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright, Cypress, or HP UFT for user-interface testing.
• 48 Months of experience testing backend services and APIs using tools like Postman, REST Assured, or specialized script libraries.
• Postman, REST Assured, or specialized script libraries. 48 Months of experience using Python, Java, JavaScript, VBScript, or C# to write and maintain test scripts.
• 48 Months of experience in creating user test scripts and managing user acceptance testing
• 12 Months experience using Redmine.

We provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military/veteran status, or any other protected basis.