Quality Assurance Engineer

Expedite Talent Solutions; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Division of Information Technology Services (ITS) is seeking a QA Analyst to develop and enforce quality assurance standards for its project teams. The role emphasizes end-to-end testing, creating test cases, and ensuring delivery of quality software for in-house apps and COTS solutions.

You will analyze requirements, design test plans, execute tests, and mentor others in testing practices, including identifying opportunities for automation and supporting ITSM documentation efforts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree plus at least three years of quality assurance/automated testing experience, or three years as a Business Analyst or Software Engineer in the Colorado Judicial Department.
• Three years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience; or three years of experience as a Business Analyst or Software Engineer within the Colorado Judicial Department. Additional work experience in these or other related fields may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required formal education.
• Experience developing and executing test plans, translating requirements into test scenarios, and contributing to quality assurance measures across the lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Ensure testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Create test plans by translating business and functional requirements into test cases and execute those cases to verify compliance with requirements.
• Collaborate with software and systems personnel in application testing, such as system, regression and load testing; advise on automation candidates.
• Use appropriate testing tools to automate integration and user interface tests and analyze results to resolve defects and interoperability issues.
• Provide input to release decisions and share knowledge to improve customer service across ITS; participate in meetings and training as required.

Skills

Test planning

Test case design

Automation testing

Defect analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Three years QA/testing experience

Job description

The Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst's role is to develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures for the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS). Working within ITS project teams, the QA Analyst will ensure quality testing of all in-house or commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) products. The QA Analyst will apply end to end testing practices including writing test cases and scenarios that ensure the delivery of quality software. They will also determine usage of and potentially create automated testing structures.

• Contribute to quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Ensure testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Analyze documentation of any new application under development or consideration to determine its intended functionality and technical architecture.
• Creates test plans by translating the business and functional requirements into test cases.
• Executes test cases to ensure internally developed products, COTS solutions, or systems meet the approved requirements.
• Performs or assists in the testing and installation of both in-house and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and applications into environments as required.
• Collaborate with software and systems personnel in application testing, such as system, regression and load testing.
• Makes recommendations on test cases that are candidates for automation.
• Uses appropriate testing tools to automate integration and user interface tests.
• Analyze formal test results to Client and resolve defects, bugs, errors, deployment/configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Make recommendations for improvement of applications and/or systems to the Customer Engagement team.
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing applications and systems and develop testing strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Responsible for defect reporting and provides input to the Manager of Data Analysis/QA regarding release decisions.
• Advises in the evaluation and solution of highly technical and complex testing functions and features, problems and bugs.
• May peer review testing efforts of other QA analysts to provide feedback and mentoring.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Works with software engineers to ensure QA standards are adhered to, including unit testing that promotes quality coding standards.
• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.
• Provides advanced Tier III support to customers.
• Contributes to ITS' IT Service Management (ITSM) system by documenting and sharing knowledge with others to improve customer service across the Department.
• Attends meetings and training as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and three years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience; or three years of experience as a Business Analyst or Software Engineer in the Colorado Judicial Department.

OR Three years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience; or three years of experience as a Business Analyst or Software Engineer within the Colorado Judicial Department. Additional work experience in these or other related fields may be substituted on a year for year basis for the required formal education.