Software Quality Assurance Tester (Systems Analyst V)

at  TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY

Software Quality Assurance Tester (Systems Analyst V) (00045292)
Organization: TEXAS EDUCATION AGENCY
Primary Location: Texas-Austin
Work Locations: Texas Education Agency 1701 NORTH CONGRESS AVENUE Austin 78701
Job: Computer and Mathematical
Employee Status: Regular
Schedule: Full-time
Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
State Job Code: 0256
Salary Admin Plan: B
Grade: 25
Salary (Pay Basis): 5,797.66 - 7,653.00 (Monthly)
Number of Openings: 1
Overtime Status: Exempt
Job Posting: Sep 20, 2024, 5:21:09 PM
Closing Date: Oct 4, 2024, 11:59:00 PM
Description
MISSION: The Texas Education Agency (TEA) will improve outcomes for all public-school students in the state by providing leadership, guidance, and support to school systems.

POSITION OVERVIEW

The Software Quality Assurance Tester performs advanced (senior level) systems analysis and team lead work, administering the daily operations and activities of the Quality Assurance (QA) team of Information Technology Office. The work involves planning, budgeting, and analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing systems. Additionally, this work involves overseeing work assignments, estimating the test team’s time and effort, ensuring that all test cases are tested on time and correctly, all completed tasks are documented in the tracking system, and that sufficient and adequate feedback is provided and documented for all passed and failed artifacts. This position is also responsible for using and developing IT systems for evaluating and improving the function, performance, security, usability, and overall quality of TEA systems delivered for use by consumers, customers, parents, teachers, administrators, students, and others. The Software Quality Assurance Tester works under minimal direction with considerable latitude for the use of initiative and independent judgement.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Education: Graduation from an accredited four-year college or university
• Experience: At least five [5] years of experience in testing complex web applications
• Substitutions: Education and experience may substitute for one another on a year-for-year basis.

OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

Belief that all Texas students can achieve at high levels and are able to succeed in college, career, or the military

• Ability to work well in a cross-functional organization including expertise to communicate well with management, peers, and cross-functional teams
• Skilled in analyzing complex requirement documents and creating detailed test cases from them
• Knowledge of working in an agile development environment and following agile processes and procedures
• Skilled in making sound decisions about quality of software, especially to determine production readiness
• Skilled in prioritizing work, based on criticality while working on multiple tasks
• Ability to learn new concepts and new skills quickly with the capability of and staying current on current industry standards and best practices for testing of TEA systems
• Skilled in analyzing, evaluating, and testing new or existing procedures, standard tools, techniques, information systems, or utility programs for accuracy, efficiency, effectiveness, and or process improvement
• Ability to provide technical assistance, expertise and support to internal and external users and customers including the ability to provide technical concepts to professional, non-technical customers
• Capability to assess and communicate resource needs and project status in a timely manner
• Expertise in providing, developing, and recommending innovative solutions to increase test productivity and product quality
• Ability to work in a cube environment with potential for significant auditory distractions
• Preferred experience includes
• Oracle 10g or greater
• SQL based language
• Analysis or development experience in the full range of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Selenium or other functional automation tool
• WAPT PRO or other performance testing tool

As an equal opportunity employer, we hire without consideration to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age or veteran status, unless an applicant is entitled to the military employment preference.
To review the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) codes from each branch of the U.S. Armed Forces to each job classification series in the State’s Position Classification Plan (provided by the State Auditor’s Office), please access the Military Crosswalk (occupational specialty code) Guide and click on the military “occupational category” that corresponds with the state classification in this job posting title.
This position requires the applicant to meet Agency standards and criteria which may include passing a pre-employment criminal background check, prior to being offered employment by the Agency.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Job duties are not limited to the essential functions mentioned below. You may perform other functions as assigned.
1. Test Documentation - perform detailed analysis and review of all available requirements keeping the big picture in mind and understanding the ripple effects of a given change; design test strategy and create detailed test plans, test cases/scripts to ensure all software developed meets the defined requirements prior to the production release
2. Testing Quality - perform thorough testing of the application in the test environment and create test data as needed to ensure that all the requirements are covered; perform functional, regression, accessibility, and exploratory testing of the application in an efficient manner leading to a quality product being deployed to production; estimate testing activities accurately to ensure that testing timelines do not impact release schedules
3. Automation - participate in the design and planning of automation for applications; identify test scenarios to automate including critical path, high risk functionality, tests prone to human error, tests that require multiple data sets, tests that take more time to perform manually and tests that are repetitive
4. Team Contribution - communicate regularly with the project manager, technical lead, dev team members, customers, and QA manager about testing tasks and results to understand project needs and propose corrective action as needed; provide status of work assignments and issues to management in a timely manner; trains other team members to be equally productive and independent; create how-to documents for other team members to use
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