Candidates MUST be willing to do face-to-face interview for this position.

On-site: Candidates must be currently local within a commutable distance of no more than 1.5 hours. Manager is not interested in candidates who will need to relocate to accept the offer. Position will be hybrid, in office 2-days a week.

Position Justification

This position will function as the Lead Test Analyst for Agency Services supporting Vital Records - MDHHS within the Department of Technology Management and Budget. Vital Records exists to register, preserve, and issue certified copies of vital records. This includes birht, death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce certifictes for all events that occur in Michigan. Vital statistics are compiled from these event registries and from Michigan's Central Cancer Registry and Birth Defects Registry, to support publich health, policy, and biomedical research.

The Lead Test Analyst will be trained in testing methodologies and Agile framework. The position will support all test activities for EDRS, BRS, and VERA applications in terms of communications to and from the Lead Business Analysts and ensuring that key test issues are managed or escalated as necessary. The Lead Test Analysts will also be responsbile for engaging the Test Analysts on a daily basis while planning and coordinating the testing activities for the testing team. Additionally, will produce reports, presentations, and meeting minutes for quality assurance testing assignments and deliverables as required.

Position Summary

• Responsible for preparing testing estimates for projects and maintenance support activities.
• Review, analyze and report on requirements or user stories and design deliverable documents, to ensure the requirements and designs are testable, measurable and adhere to standards.
• Participate in project team meetings and daily standup and to provide updates on defects and testing status.
• Provide status updates to management on testing quality of the project deliverables, test results, quality and recommend testing best practices for improvements.
• Create test planning documents based on user requirements.
• Complete test artifacts.
• Execute testing data management plan activities.
• Ensure testing resources are aligned to the project schedule, budget and tasks to complete on time.
• Record and manage defects to closure.
• Execute and document test cases as assigned, by completing each test step using end product.
• Store testing documents in Devops and maintain at predetermined baseline checkpoints.
• Participate in lessons learned/ retrospectives as required.
• Responsible for functional testing, Systems integration testing, load testing and share results with the project team.
• Prepare automated test plan.
• Create automated scripts based on test approach, specific for all environments.
• Complete sections of maintenance plan for automated test scripts as assigned.
• Performs assigned maintenance plan tasks within the automated tool.
• Setup application authentication and authorization in environments for load testing.
• Conduct automated role-based testing.
• Execute testing data management plan activities.

Skill Descriptions

• Over 8 years’ experience leading and reviewing QA testing, functional testing, system integration testing
• Over 8 years’ experience coordinating user acceptance testing on projects and support.
• Over 5 years’ experience maintaining test logs, defect logs, reviewing defects and prioritizing defects for resolution
• Over 5 years of experience mentoring and guiding testing team members on testing best practices, and feedback.
• Over 5 years’ experience in Devops or relevant tools to maintain test cases, test plans.
• Over 3 years’ experience in automated testing tools such as selenium, Smartbear and related tools on large projects.
• Over 5 years’ experience in preparing testing closure documents, creating and sharing testing metrics, updating testing logs, ensuring priority defects are completed and projects transition to maintenance.