QA Engineer Automated 1661

Sistema Technologies Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) in Austin seeks a QA Engineer Automated contractor to design and maintain automated test cases using Playwright or similar technology, and to support both manual and automated testing.

The role emphasizes test planning, defect tracking in Jira, and collaboration with Agile teams across development, testing, UAT, and production environments. On-call support is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of QA experience.
• Experience in manual test script execution.
• Experience in automated QA testing.
• Experience in QA test script creation.
• Experience in performance testing.
• Experience with Agile, Jira, XRay, or Zephyr.
• Experience with accessibility testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test cases using Playwright or similar technology.
• Create and execute test plans for automated and manual testing.
• Track test case execution and log defects in Jira.
• Lead UAT testing activities as needed and support dev/test/UAT/production environments.
• Support the development team during dev, test, UAT, and production.
• Available for on-call support as required.

Skills

Manual test script execution

Automated QA testing

QA test script creation

Performance testing

QA Automated Test Case Reporting

JavaScript

HTML

Accessibility testing

Agile

Tools

Playwright

WebdriverIO

JMeter

Jira

XRay

Zephyr

Job description

Austin, TX
QA Engineer Automated - Solicitation# 529601661
Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC)

Level Description

8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Job Description

QA automation engineers design automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically. This includes determining the priority for test scenarios and creating execution plans to implement these scenarios. Designing documentation for automated processes.

Additional job details and special considerations

This QA Engineer Automated contractor position performs Quality Assurance activities for an application for the (PCS) Contract Operations team. This application is part of an initiative to enhance and update the System Contract Operating and Reporting application to create a more robust and comprehensive system for agency contract management, monitoring, and compliance activities. This position is part of the Administrative Applications Software Quality Assurance team and is responsible for developing and maintaining automated test cases using Playwright or similar technology, and for developing and maintaining test scripts for both manual and automated testing. Perform manual testing as required. Track test case execution. Establish regular automated schedules for test cases and required reporting. Use Jira to log and track defects. Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices. Must have experience working in an Agile environment. Support the development team as needed in dev, test, UAT, and production, and troubleshoot test cases as required. Lead UAT testing activities as needed. Available for on-call support as needed.

Position is ONSITE/Hybrid (Remote - Mondays, Thursdays, Fridays ---ONSITE - Tuesdays and Wednesdays). The program will only accept LOCAL ONLY candidates for this position.

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.

• Actual
• Years
• Experience Years
• Experience
• Needed Required/
• Preferred Skills/Experience 10 Required Experience in manual test script execution 8 Required Experience in automated QA testing 8 Required Experience in QA test script creation 8 Required Experience in performance testing 5 Preferred Experience in QA Automated Test Case Reporting 5 Preferred JavaScript, HTML Experience, Playwright, WebdriverIO, JMeter 3 Preferred Experience in Agile, Scrum, Jira, XRay, or Zephyr 3 Preferred Experience in accessibility testing