DirectClient: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts(CPA)
Solicitation#304134786R
Title: Lead Software Automation Tester
Location: 111 E 17th Street Austin, Texas 78711
Duration: Until 8/31/2023 with possible extension to /8/31/2025
Last date for submission: May 30, 2022 (2.00 PM-CST)
Note: The selected contractor(s) will be required to come in person to the LBJ Building to obtain CPA equipment, badge and initial assignments. Mostly remote with occasional travel to Austin office
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
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.
• Lead efforts to make sure test cases and automated test scripts are written and tested on time.
• Lead functional, regression, ad-hoc, exploratory, smoke testing, integration testing and any other kind of software testing needed for the application in a timely manner.
• Lead the generation of performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
• Lead the execution of benchmark, load, stress, and other non-functional tests.
CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Years Required/Preferred Experience
8 Required Experience as the Technical Lead in documenting test strategy and creating detailed test plans, cases/scripts, verification/validation documents and quality test data to ensure software developed meet defined requirements prior to the production release
5 Required Experience using database query: SQL
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)
4 Required Experience in writing automation scripts and executing them
4 Required Experience of software development methodologies, Agile and Scrum
4 Required Experience in analyzing bug reports and highlight solutions to help identify fixes for them
4 Required Experience using the following Tools: Jira, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket
4 Required Experience in utilizing test automation frameworks e.g. JUnit, TestNG
4 Required Experience in developing, enhancing, updating, and maintaining suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.
4 Required Experience in identifying test coverage gaps and improvements.
4 Required Experience with Build/Platform tools and continuous integration environments using Jenkins
4 Required Experience with Test Driven development
3 Required Experience in programming languages such as C#, Python, SQL, .NET, VBScript
3 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