ID-DHW- Test Manager (697888) - HYBRID - 25 Nov 2022

Short Description:

: The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Welfare Division, has a need for a Test Manager to support the advancement of the testing function. The Role of Test Manager is to effectively lead the testing team.

Complete Description:

POSITION REQUIRES SOME ONSITE WORK - Remote work is allowed, but the person needs to be able to be in the office as needed to attend required meetings, discoveries, planning, etc. Travel costs for onsite work will not be covered by the client or CAI, so local candidates will be the best fits for this position.

The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Welfare Division, has a need for a Test Manager to support the advancement of the testing function. The Role of Test Manager is to effectively lead the testing team. To fulfill this role the Test Manager must understand the discipline of testing and how to effectively implement a testing process while fulfilling the traditional team leadership role. This involves creating a test infrastructure that supports robust communication and a cost-effective testing framework.

Detailed Description: Immediate responsibilities will include maintaining an effective testing process and making improvements to this process, including additional automation, to increase the overall effectiveness of the testing function. This position will provide test definition, execution and management for the suite of the Welfare Division systems that support, but not limited to, Medicaid, Aid to the Aged Blind and Disabled (AABD) cash, Temporary Assistance to Families in Idaho (Idaho's TANF funded TAFI program), SNAP (Food Stamps), the Idaho Child Care Program, and Child Support. The Division of Welfare uses the Scrum Agile development methodology, so all methods and strategies should be consistent with this. The Test Manager will also bring consolidation to the various automated load and regression testing tools that have been implemented.

The test manager will also be responsible for the following:

- Test Strategy: provides the overall approach to testing including team members, tools and processes
- Test Plan: presents the test: objectives, scope, approach, assumptions, dependencies, risks and schedule for a particular release
- Test Cases: specific tests defined to ensure business requirements are met and capture defects when not met
- Defect Documentation: generation of defects captured during test phase
- Defect Tracking: tracking, management and reporting of found defects
- Measurements and Metrics: effective and useful measures of the testing process
- Status Reports: provides progress toward testing objectives
- Automated Tests: provide automated load and regression tests
- Manual User Acceptance Tests: Define process, scenarios and test plan for manual user acceptance testing
- Test Team Member Roles: definition of test team member roles

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount

of Experience

Experience creating test models for product test and release control (plans, data, and scripts). Required 3 Years Experience coordinating and performing automated testing using various tools to augment manual testing Required 3 Years Demonstrated ability to communicate to many different types of stakeholders in high stress situations, especially in virtual environments. Required 5 Years Experience participating in iterative projects, with responsibilities such as taking notes, tracking project status, impediments, or issue resolutions Required 3 Years Experience documenting and tracking defects during a testing phase of application development. Required 3 Years Good knowledge of Division of Welfare applications such as IBES, Nexi, Mia, eVerif-I. Desired 2 Years Experience working with state agencies to gain good knowledge of benefit or child support programs. Desired 2 Years

Skills : Manual Testing,AUTOMATION TESTING,Test Manager