QA Tester - Bilingual Spanish

Required Qualifications

• Five (5) or more years of Quality Assurance experience testing large enterprise applications
• Strong hands-on manual testing experience
• Experience with test automation and automated testing frameworks
• Professional working proficiency in English and Spanish sufficient to perform Spanish-language application and content validation
• Experience working throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Strong understanding of Quality Assurance methodologies, testing processes, and best practices
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and technical teams
• Ability to interpret business requirements and convert them into detailed test scenarios and test cases
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum development environments
• Experience using Jira for defect tracking and Agile project management
• Strong attention to detail, particularly when comparing English and Spanish application content

Key Responsibilities

• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing across multiple enterprise applications.
• Perform dedicated testing and validation of Spanish-language application functionality and resident-facing content.
• Compare Spanish-language functionality and content against approved English requirements and expected business outcomes.
• Validate Spanish screens, correspondence, notices, messages, forms, labels, instructions, and application workflows.
• Develop comprehensive test scenarios, test cases, and automated test scripts based on business and technical requirements.
• Develop test scenarios specifically addressing Spanish-language functionality and content.
• Review business requirements, user stories, functional specifications, technical documentation, and design documents to identify testing needs.
• Participate in requirements walkthroughs, sprint planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and design review sessions.
• Estimate testing effort and provide input into overall project planning and release schedules.
• Execute functional, regression, integration, system, API, and end-to-end testing activities.
• Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using approved automation frameworks.
• Validate interfaces and integrations between enterprise applications and external systems.
• Perform backend database validation using SQL queries.
• Execute API and web service testing using industry-standard tools.
• Document test execution results and communicate testing progress to project leadership.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and manage software defects through resolution.
• Clearly document defects involving Spanish-language content or functionality so they can be understood and resolved by business and technical teams.
• Participate in defect triage meetings and validate software fixes.
• Ensure complete traceability between business requirements, test cases, and executed tests through the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, architects, project managers, vendors, and State business stakeholders.
• Support production implementations by performing release validation and post-production verification.
• Assist in continuously improving QA standards, automation frameworks, testing processes, and quality best practices.