DirectClient: Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts(CPA)
Solicitation#304134441
Title: Lead Software QA Engineer
Location: 111 E 17th Street Austin, Texas 78711
Duration: Until 8/31/2022 with possible extension upto 8/31/2025
Last date for submission: November 7, 2021 (2.00 PM-CST)
Disclaimer: The selected candidate will be required to come in person to the LBJ Building to obtain CPA equipment, badge and initial assignments. Remote work allowed until COVID-19 situation settles
DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES:
CPA will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform testing tasks such as:
• Conduct a wide range of quality control tests and analyses to ensure that our software meets or exceeds end-user requirements
• Performing as the LFM 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.
• Drive continual process improvements for the evolution of testing procedures and their future replication.
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 meets the defined requirements prior to production release.
8 Required Experience in developing, enhancing, updating, and maintaining suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.
8 Required Efficient in using Postman, Chrome DevTools, JSON Builders, Swagger API, Mockito, etc. to mock objects, create test APIs, and perform unit testing. Create, maintain, and securely interact with mock data and prod data.
8 Required Experience in utilizing test automation frameworks e.g. JUnit, TestNG, Protractor, Selenium, Katalon, Nightwatch, etc.
8 Required Experience in testing UI with UX Design and identify design differences, including fonts, colors, icon styles, required fields, navigations, etc.
8 Required Experience in identifying test coverage gaps and implementing improvements.
8 Required Experience using Jira, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket. Jira integrations with test results.
8 Required Experience using database query: SQL – Validate API data and Frontend Page data with the database tables and identify discrepancies in mapping.
5 Required Experience in modern programming languages such as JavaScript and Java
5 Required Experience in the use of automation tools such as (such as: Selenium Webdriver, Katalon, UFT and/or API and microservices level test automation expertise in Postman)
5 Required Experience working closely with Product Owner, Developers, to understand the requirements, business rules, acceptance criteria, UI behaviors, and report and track the bugs and fixes, test false positives, negatives, invalid, and edge case test scenarios
5 Required Experience with Build/Platform tools and continuous integration environments using Jenkins
5 Required Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) testing with Gherkin and Cucumber
5 Required Experience in API Performance and Load testing using various tools such as JMeter
5 Required Experience with highly complex application security requirements
5 Preferred Experience with microservices architecture and technologies: Docker, Kubernetes
3 Preferred Experience with cloud platforms, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
2 Preferred Experience with Jest and Enzyme
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