DirectClient: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts(CPA)
Solicitation#304134205
Title: Lead Automation Tester
Location: 111 E 17th Street Austin, Texas 78711
Duration: Until 8/31/2022 with possible extension
Last date for submission: September 12, 2021 (2.00 PM-CST)
Disclaimer: Remote work allowed during COVID-19 and 100% onsite after the pandemic
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
The Candidate will perform as the technical lead in highly advanced software development work as part of an agile team working under the direction and guidance of Application Services management. The Candidate must have strong hands-on technical experience with automation tools and proven success designing, developing, implementing, and testing front-end and back-end web user-interfaces in a large organization. The primary goal of the Candidate as a member of an agile scrum team will be to deliver well-designed, documented, and tested modern software applications that fully meet customer requirements. This Candidate will work on property tax related systems.
CPA will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform testing tasks such as:
• Participating in all phases of Agile, including design, software development and testing.
• Performing as the technical lead for test planning, test estimation, test strategy, workload design, test cases design, defect management and configuration/test data management.
• Making sure test cases and automated test scripts are written and tested on time.
• Performing functional, regression, ad-hoc, exploratory, smoke testing, integration testing and any other kind of software testing needed for the application in a timely manner.
• Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
• Execute benchmark, load, stress, and other non-functional tests.
CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Technical Lead experience in documenting test strategy and creating detailed test plans, cases and scripts, verification/validation documents and quality test data to ensure software developed meet the defined requirements prior to the production release
8 Required Experience in writing automation scripts and executing them
8 Required Experience of software development methodologies, Agile and Scrum
8 Required Experience in analyzing bug reports and highlight solutions to help identify fixes for them
8 Required Experience using the following Tools: Jira, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket
8 Required Experience using database query: SQL
8 Required Experience in utilizing test automation frameworks e.g. JUnit, TestNG
8 Required Experience in developing, enhancing, updating, and maintaining suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.
8 Required Experience in identifying test coverage gaps and improvements.
5 Required Experience in the use of automation tools such as (such as: Selenium Webdriver, Katalon, UFT and/or API -microservices level test automation expertise Postman)
5 Required Experience with Build/Platform tools and continuous integration environments using Jenkins
5 Required Experience with Test Driven development
5 Required Experience in programming languages such as C#, Python, SQL, .NET, VBScript
5 Required Experience with highly complex application security requirements
5 Preferred Experience with T-SQL and Stored procedures
5 Preferred Experience with microservice architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, AppD and application monitoring tools
2 Preferred Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)
2 Preferred Proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, TEAMS, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint