QA Tester

Description of Project

• The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is seeking two fulltime Quality urance ysts to work on the Electronic Licensing System (ELS) project.
• The resource(s) will provide support to the DNR ELS lead quality urance/business yst throughout the implementation of a new State solution.
• The resource(s) will engage in testing and create any related QA artifacts for ELS.
• These requirements and artifacts will be used throughout the implementation of the ELS project.
• This will be done in conjunction with State or contract Business and Quality urance ysts and Project Managers.
• These resource(s) will work directly with both DNR and MNIT DNR staff to perform quality urance activities throughout the software development lifecycle.
• At a high level the resource(s) will work as part of a team to test vendor developed software products for the DNRs ELS.
• This is a multiyear project with multiple releases.
• The delivery of the work will follow the DNR standards processes and procedures.
• Actively participate in the Agile events implemented by the development team (MNIT DNR Vendor) and collaborate with team members.

Tasks

• Participate in formal review of business/functional requirements and application design
• Prepare a Test Plan
• Determine the types of testing that will be executed
• Design and doent test cases and scripts (manual and/or automated)
• Identify and communicate test requirements
• Elish testing entrance and exit criteria
• Identify and prepare test data
• Execute manual and/or automated test scripts for complex projects.
• yze report help trouble and resolve test failures
• Report overall test status and results
• Report and log defects found as a result of the test
• Perform other testing tasks as may be required by the project
• Provide knowledge transfer

Desired Ss

• Five (5) years of Quality urance work creating and executing manual test cases/test scripts from scratch.
• Experience with Software development lifecycle odologies including agile and the Scrum framework as a team member.
• Experience writing and executing both positive (happy path) and negative (e.g. boundary input validation exception (error validation) test cases.
• Experience in collaborative teamwork elishing/maintaining working relationships with business customers and technology staff while concurrently providing technical leadership in planning designing executing tests mentoring and developing procedures for product quality on complex projects utilizing industrystandard software development odologies.
• Experience in multiple programming languages software development technologies and diverse database platforms with handson experience in working with webbased forms webbased content interactive solutions and conducting testing on webbased applications web services and database systems.
• Experience on large complex implementations with 3rd party vendors.
• Experience in utilizing DevOps tools such as Jira for streamlined software development continuous integration and deployment processes.
• Experience with security accessibility performance and stress testing.
• Ability to communicate clearly present complex information to users in a comprehensive style translate technical and system information for nontechnical stakeholders.
• SQL experience