Software Quality Assurance Tester

Overview

Allied Consultants, Inc. is an Austin-based firm which has for 33 years been a premier provider of technical and business professionals to clients in Texas. We are currently seeking an experienced Software Quality Assurance Tester to be a key resource on a technical services team.

 

Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan.Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law.  Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background checkAllied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.

Responsibilities

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 TSDS development team to provide the following Software Testing Services:

• Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop detailed performance testing scenarios
• Experience with performance testing methodologies, including load, stress, and endurance testing
• Ability to write and execute performance test scripts
• Experience in analyzing reports for Performance bottlenecks
• Experience in API testing with REST-assured based frameworks
• 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
• Perform SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data
• Perform manual testing and data validation

The ECOS development team supports and facilitates the implementation of the Educator Certification suite of applications. These applications facilitate the following:

• educator certification
• criminal history background checks
• educator preparation program functionality supporting educator candidates
• local education agencies hiring and employing certified and non-certified staff
• educator investigations
• agency administrative support

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

6

Required

Testing automation experience with Selenium and TesING

4

Required

Experience in API testing with REST-assured based frameworks

3

Required

Database/SQL Language

3

Required

Experience with Java Programming Language

2

Preferred

Test automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks

2

Preferred

Experience in API testing (SOAP and REST).

1

Preferred

Previous experience with Jira preferred

1

Preferred

Previous experience with Zypher Scale preferred

1

Preferred

Previous experience with educator certification systems preferred