QA Analyst

Job Title: QA Analyst (Hybrid Onsite Locals Only)

Location: Hartford CT

Duration: 6 Months

Pay Rate: $60/hr

Note:

Candidate must be within a two hour drive of Hartford CT.

Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

Candidate must be willing to work on site 20% 505 Hudson Street Hartford CT (The QA Team is in the office 1x per week)

Job Description:

The Department of Children and Families depends on the core missioncritical applications LINK and IVE Connecticuts Federally reimbursed SACWIS (Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System). Implemented in 1996 available on every desktop and used by over 2000 social workers and case managers the application has been enhanced and modified continually to meet data capture and process functionality requirements driven by good child welfare case practice as well as State and Federal legislation and statute. Additionally LINK continued to experience change chiefly in compliance with the 1991 Juan F. Consent Decree as well as the agencys ongoing goal of improving the safety permanency and wellbeing of children in care. The agency is currently committed to developing the next generation Comprehensive Child Welfare information system (CCWIS) and has invested significant resources to ensure that Connecticut has efficient economic and effective tools to aid our Child Welfare Staff Providers and the children and families of CT.

Concurrently the agency implemented a multifaceted agencywide outcome measure improvement plan that specifically addressed each of the twentytwo (22) outcomes targeted for improvement driven by the original Consent Decree. In 2022 the Agency has met and sustained all outcome measures set forth in the Juan F. Consent Decree. The Agency continues sustaining these measures with the support of information technology.

DCF Information Systems provides technology expertise and services as well as an information systems infrastructure to the agency and its roughly 3300 employees. DCF Information Systems strives to improve continually improving technology services that are costeffective and of the highest effectiveness and quality.

SCOPE OF WORK

The agency needs the service of 1 HANDS ON QA Automation Engineer. The candidate will serve in the capacity of a QA Automation Engineer will follow a welldefined vision of how IT and the business aligns and make sure that everyone is following the same principles methodologies and support activities per the direction of agency management. The specific focus of this candidate will be to ensure that functional requirements are met whilst also ensuring that service qualities (Performance scalability extensibility maintainability security interoperability) for now and for the future are achievable. In addition this role is responsible for reviewing and improving on existing systems making use of new technologies and methodologies to seek continual improvement for existing systems

Specific Services Required:

In the role of the QA Automation Tester the following services are required:

Follow the core technology and architecture for automated testing of largescale distributed systems midrange to client server and n tier e commerce applications and solutions

Follow specifications to automate the testing of applications.

Work on all test automation components of solution and create/maintain required technical documentation.

Follow developed strategies for endtoend system testing.

Assist in all testing processes involving the migration and integration of new and legacy technologies.

Excellent communication presentation collaboration and interpersonal skills.

Demonstrated ability to deliver business and technical value.

Must be very organized proactive and selfdirected. Must be able to perform with minimal supervision.

Must have very strong abstract thinking and problemsolving skills.

Must have very good verbal and written communication skills.

Work with the Quality Assurance Manager to establish goals and release quality while meeting requirements of projects.

Work with the Quality Assurance Manager to establish goals and release quality while meeting requirements of projects

Follows the testing standards and strategies and uses them correctly.

Makes sure the software and system testing frameworks are in synchronization.

Interface with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders to determine their (evolving) needs

Follows the set standards for the automated testing software policies and execution.

Reviews all system requirements test scripts test scenarios to create appropriate testing workflow. Ensures that this set of highlevel requirements is consistent complete correct and operationally defined.

Reviews software components and collaborates with development group Product Owners System Teams and Operations to ensure best overall testing strategies best practices and techniques for automated testing.

Interfaces with the design and implementation teams so that any problems arising during QA can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts and user needs and constraints.

Collaborates on a set of acceptance test requirements together with the project teams and the user which determine that all of the highlevel requirements have been met especially for the computerhumaninterface.

Generates products such as unit tests automated functional tests regression tests load tests code coverage reports and test scenario % pass/fail ADA/508c/AWGA compliance Cross Browser Compatibility Mobile Compatibility.

Ensures that all testing libraries and artifacts are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.

Responsible for creating automated test case scenarios for Agile Delivery Team to meet Acceptance Criteria

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

Refer to the State contracts for IT Professional Services Agreement (22PSX0163) for experience and skill requirements for the job classification Solution Architect to fill the role. In addition the agency requires:

For this position the candidate shares their experience and judgment with the team to plan accomplish goals and mentors less experienced staff. In addition the agency requires:

An experience professional with demonstrating the following knowledge and skills:

5 years Experience Azure DevOps suite (Azure Boards Azure Repos Azure Pipelines Azure Test Plans Azure Artifacts) (*required)

5 years Experience in automated testing with UFT (Unified Functional Testing) and VBScript or different programing language. (*required)

5 years Experience with Automated Testing Frameworks and Manual Testing Test Methodologies Test Strategies and Test Beds.(*required)

5 years Experience with Agile Methodologies