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 Quality Assurance Tester performs advanced analysis and application testing work involving the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) section of IT-SEDS (Information Technology – Statewide Education Data System). 

 

This position will work with the Information Technology CRM Testing team to provide the following Software Testing Services:

• Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop test plan and detailed test cases.
• Execute automated functional and regression test cases, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail
• Perform manual testing and data validation
• Perform advanced SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data
• Work with development team and customers to clearly understand the functionality under test to help determine test cases and clearly communicate issues found
• Review user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate applications or to improve existing systems.
• Collaborate with the project team for sprint/release work on tasks such as providing testing effort estimates, resolving defects or issues and providing status on work assignments or issues. 

**Location of job: 100% Remote**

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

3

Required

Database/SQL Language

3

Required

Creating Automation test cases

2

Required

Automation Testing experience

4

Preferred

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

4

Preferred

Experience with test frameworks such TestNG, JUnit, BDD

4

Preferred

WAPT Pro or other performance testing tools

1

Preferred

Previous experience testing CRM applications

1

Preferred

Previous experience with Zephyr Scale preferred

1

Preferred

Previous experience with JIRA preferred