Job Description :
Position details:
Client: State of Arizona Arizona Department of Education (AZED)
Job Title: Software Quality Assurance (49303)
Location: 1535 W. Jefferson St., Phoenix, AZ 85007
Duration: 8 Months
Job Description:
Imagine designing world-class online educational experiences for hundreds of thousands of K-12 students, teachers, parents, and school staff in Arizona.
The Arizona Department of Education is creating award-winning educational systems and you can contribute to our success by crafting the very best user interfaces and systems using the bleeding-edge technologies.
Position Summary
The QA Analyst candidate will work closely with product owners, developer and project managers to define and prioritize testing requirements; communicates test results and status reports in an agile environment. The candidate will add value to the team by validating the web applications and backend systems meet requirements and design specifications.
Responsibilities
Review functional business requirements and design specifications to ensure understanding of deliverables such as test strategy, test plans and test cases.
Develop, document and maintain test cases and other test artifacts like test data, test scripts.
Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results.
Publish and communicate test results and test plan statuses using established processes.
Isolate, replicate and report defects and verify defect fixes.
Work closely/collaboratively with cross-functional teams (Dev, Management, Operations
Participate in all aspects of functional, regression, user acceptance and load testing.
Provide estimates for test efforts.
Coordinate with Network Services team to ensure required test platforms are available.
Identify quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues.
Participate in software design discussions, reviews and test strategy sessions.
Requirements
Bachelor''s Degree or equivalent experience.
5+ years of relevant QA technical experience with functional testing, regression testing and integration testing.
Expertise in creating clear, concise test plans and test cases. Ability to understand and create test plans and test cases from specifications.
Experience writing black box and user interface test cases, designing tests to mitigate risks.
Experience in context-based, exploratory, or scenario testing.
Working understanding of source control and test management tools.
Basic understanding of programming.
Ability to focus on deadlines and deliverables.
Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Preferred
Experience in the education industry is preferred.
Experience working on an Agile/Scrum team preferred.
Experience with TFS, MTM and MS Test is preferred.
Exposure to test automation scripts using Selenium is preferred.
Intermediate level of SQL Server database query language (TSQL) and using that write queries to extract data out of databases is preferred.
Soft Skills
Ability to effectively collaborate with developers and business experts.
Ability to work as part of a self-directed team, in which tasks are determined daily in coordination with co-workers, rather than being assigned.
Ability to excel in a collaborative and distributed team environment.