Test Engineer IV

Responsibilities include developing and executing software tests and documenting results in order to ensure software runs smoothly and effectively. May involve troubleshooting issues and debugging software. May require a bachelor's degree and at least 9 years or equivalent experience in a related area. Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and technologies in the field.

Statement of Work:

The QA tester, to fill the agency request FR 101491, is responsible for managing test activities throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) to test IDXR functionality and integrations. IDXR is an API based application and does not have any GUI functionality. This includes developing, planning and executing system tests based on adherence to user stories and requirements, identifying and managing test data and environments, and identifying, reporting and managing software defects.

Primary responsibilities:

• Manage all test activities throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
• Develop, execute, maintain, and enhance test scripts for validating IDXR functionality and integration functionality.
• Execute functional and regression test cases as well as performance and

security test cases.

• Create and maintain requirements traceability matrices.
• Identify, manage, create/obtain test data required for projects.
• Coordinate with Scrummasters, Project Managers and/or Business Analysts

throughout the testing process to ensure correct reporting information is relayed.

• Analyze system requirements, identify and document all test cases.
• Analyze the effectiveness of test cases and then make any necessary

improvements.

• If issues beyond what is typical in the normal testing environment are discovered,

solicit feedback from the project scrum team.

• Follow defect management process for system test and user acceptance test.
• Establish effective communications with development teams for defect management.
• Document defects and their resolution.
• Monitor the management of defects.
• Determine when a valid defect has occurred, how to communicate it, or if it needs to

be escalated for analysis or repair.

• Identifies and recommends defect management strategies.
• Determine the severity and priority of defects with support from the development

team.

• Determine if a defect fix is successful with support from the business requirements

team.

• Determine what defect metrics to communicate.
• Determine which manual tests are good candidates for automation.
• Diagnose, troubleshoot, and correct automated test failures.

Tasks

• Develop and document test cases based on use cases
• Create, maintain, and execute automated application test scripts (framework, Postman)

Location Requirements

Candidate must be local.

Candidate Must Be Local

Additional Location Details (City, State) :

CANDIDATE MUST RESIDE IN THE STATE OF COLORADO FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONTRACT.

Information Security Training

Information on Security Training

NOTICE: If you are hired as vendor staff who will have access to state systems or data or as a contractor for one of the state executive branch consolidated agencies, in adherence to Colorado Revised Statute § 24-37.5-401, 403, 404, 405, and 406, and Colorado Information Security Policy (CISP) 002, you will be required to self-register and complete information security training, including but not limited to review and acknowledgement of the Acceptable Use of State Data and IT Resource Policy (AUP) (CISP-018), through the consolidated agency contractor information security training site within 30 days of your contract start date and annually thereafter. Should you be awarded this contract, the state agency will provide the contractor information security training site information to you.

Background Verification

Minimum Verification Requirements

Please complete the following verifications with Info Cubic upon candidate's selection. Additional verifications may be identified by the agency.

• State Criminal Record verification (past 7 years covering each State in which the candidate has resided)
• County Criminal Records (past 7 Year Address History)
• Federal Criminal Records Verification (past 7 years)
• SSN Name Search
• Global Monitor Check (formerly Patriot/OFAC/Terrorist)

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Type Category Qualification Description Competency Required Skills Architecture AGILE - Agile Development Methodology Agile methodology + boards Proficient (4-6 Years) No Skills Database Data Analysis Ability to use write custom SQL to evaluate application results and create test data Advanced (7-9 Years) No Skills Languages Java Proven ability to script automation in a programming language such as; Python or Java. Proficient (4-6 Years) No Skills Others Communication skills both verbal and written Ability to clearly outline and define concerns and solutions, while maintaining positive working relationships.