Quality Assurance Specialist

Duties/Responsibilities

Designs andperforms system analysis, recommends application solutions, tests and correctsprograms and assists IT staff with documentation;

Assists insupporting user acceptance testing;

Performssoftware implementation tasks, including source control and deploymentactivities;

Assists withdevelopment, implementation and monitoring IT quality assurance standards andtesting;

Assists in thedevelopment and documentation of appropriatestandards and criteriafor acceptable programming and systems development lifecycleactivities;

Develops softwaretesting and automation procedures and performs analysis and design;

Reads, writes,extracts and/or reports from compounded files;

Works withbusiness personnel to identify and document system software requirements;

Definesproblems and develops potential solutions;

Performs post-productionsupport for business applications which may include routine maintenance,enhancements and the need to perform research to aid in troubleshootingsoftware production errors;

Assists ITstaff in identifying alternate coursesof action, the review and evaluation of software development methodologies andcompleting software security scans and reporting on vulnerabilities;

Assist IT staffin performance testing and benchmarking of software application response times,analysis and reporting on performance measures.

Communicateswith peers and others. Collaborates proactively.

Guidesperformance of software development tasks per verbal instructions;

Answers questionson technical topics to assist other technical staff in software development;

Obtains orimparts information from/to other technical staff and business personnelthrough discussion(s) involving database, infrastructure and/or applicationinformation;

Leadsdiscussion(s) or formal meetings with technical and/or nontechnical personnelon simple to moderate technical topics in support of software development;

Summarizes, in writing,information on one or more related topics involving database, infrastructureand/or application information in support of software development;

Conveys, inwriting, recommendations or conclusions to another for decision making purposesin support of software development.

Gathers,interprets and applies information from a variety of sources to aid in softwaredevelopment duties, activities and events;

Answersquestions and presents informal mentorship opportunities to peers and/orlower-level staff via conversation, observation or technical documentation.

Understandingand experience in the use of Azure Dev Ops for documentation and iterativedevelopment collaboration, task management and other functions related tosystem testing and reporting.

Basicunderstanding of Agile, Iterative and Traditional Software development (SDLC) practices,standards as it relates to testing activities.

GeneralKnowledge and Skills Requirements:

1.computerand electronics

2.oraland written communication tools and techniques

3.customersupport and personal service

4.Stateand agency policy, procedures, and applicable laws

5.vision,mission, and goals of agency

6.softwaredevelopment principles and methods for design, development, testing, andimplementation of new or modified software

7.commonlyused query language

8.mathematicprinciples related to assigned area in IT

9.ElectronicData Processing (e.g., C# .Net, VB .Net, JMeter, JavaScript, HTML, VisualStudio., Oracle database, MS-SQL databases, Microsoft Azure Cloud basedtechnologies, Salesforce, Azure DevOps, JAMS stored procedures, triggers, webdevelopment)

10. reading comprehension

11. Speaking

12. service orientation

13. troubleshooting

14. stay abreast of current technologies inarea of IT assigned

15. deal with problems involving severalvariables in familiar context

16. understand practical field of study(e.g., computer science)

17. define problems, collect data, establish facts & draw valid conclusions

18. deal with many variables & determine specific action

19. understand manuals & verbal instructions, technical in nature

20. gather, collate & classify information about data, people or things

21. cooperate with co-workers on group projects

22. establish friendly atmosphere as supervisor of work unit

Job duty,knowledge, skill, and ability statements at a lower level are understood to beable to be performed at any higher level.

Qualifications

3+years of experience as a Software Tester specifically for .NET and Cloud-Native Applications

Demonstrated ability and experience independently developing testing strategy, test plans,test cases and proper system testing documentation for a new .NET application.