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About this role
Job Responsibilities/Duties:
- Support the execution of test lifecycle deliverables per standard methodology and procedures to ensure successful Test Strategy/plan implementation for the Georgia Dept. of Transportation.
- Create and document test plans, execute tests, analyze results, and report problems and anomalies, all via the lens of business end users.
- Operate in Agile approach to support testing needs.
- Work closely and collaboratively with business partners, PMO and Vendor technical delivery teams to understand business requirements.
- Ensure software testing is done on-time and as planned and notify management about bottlenecks and other issues and risks.
- Assist Business subject matter experts and business analysts in the development of UAT test scenarios leveraging test cases.
- Participate in defect triage meetings and demos.
- Report weekly status to Quality Assurance Testing Lead.
- Develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures for the information technology services within the organization.
Required Skills:
- Education: Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.
- Experience:
- 3-5 years of experience with testing in software development projects, with a strong preference for candidates having at least 5 years of experience.
- Experience in mid-scale or large-scale system development projects (including using test automation, test strategy, developing and executing test scripts and test plans).
- Experience in testing Custom applications.
- Experience in testing GIS components.
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Able to review and analyze system specifications (e.g., System Requirements, Business Requirements, Design Documents, etc.).
- Able to perform manual testing and/or automated testing.
- Experience in documenting Requirement Traceability Matrices (RTM) and confirming applications are ready for UAT.
- Experience in preparing UAT instructions for end users and facilitating/overseeing UAT activities.
- Experience in documenting Test Cases.
- Experience in evaluating and documenting Test Results.
- Ability to prepare sample data for testing.
- Skills in System testing, parallel/comparative testing, QA testing, performance and load testing, regression testing, security testing, business continuity/disaster recovery testing, post-go-live testing/validation.
- Analytical mind and skills in troubleshooting, problem-solving, and issue isolation.
- Detail oriented.
- Excellent communication/collaboration skills with software developers/architects, business analysts, etc.
- Able to work with cross-functional teams to validate product quality throughout the development life cycle.
- Experience with GitHub, ServiceNow.
- Experience in quality assurance concepts and best practices.
- Experience creating test cases and writing manual test scripts.
- Experience in running tests for application functions.
- Experience with SDLC and agile methodologies.
- Familiarity with defect management tools.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with mobile device testing.
- Experience with public sector.
- Preferred training or software testing certifications such as:
- Certified Associate in Software Testing (CAST)
- Certified Test Engineer (CSTE)
- Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA)
- Certified Manager of Software Quality (CMSQ)
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