SOFTWARE TESTER

Title

IT Tester 

Client

State of LA 

Location 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana (remote will based on approval – if approved will require an average  5 on-site days per month)

Resumes Due

14^th Oct 

Rate

Up to $60/hr

Duration

1.5 Years

Description/Role

The Office of Technology Services (OTS) was established as a means of recognizing cost savings through the consolidation of State IT assets and resources. The creation of OTS consolidated a wide variety of existing hardware platforms, operating systems, database management systems, networks, third party software, and custom applications.

OTS leads the State’s technology procurement process in order to standardize technology over the entire organization, seek efficiencies of operations, maintenance, and scalability of new products introduced to the OTS suite of services which can eventually be offered to all in-scope agencies.

Engagement Overview

Provide day-to-day support for all current legacy Louisiana Workforce Commission (LWC) applications. Design, develop, code, etc. new applications as needed. Design web applications as needed. Maintain and support mainframe application environments. Analyze existing code to translate to contemporary language code for LWC requirements. Assist with OTS/LWC initiatives to modernize and automate.

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

Three (3) - IT Tester

• Primarily serve as a quality assurance software tester.
• Perform various testing methodologies on the developed software including: usability, functionality, exploratory, system, smoke, monkey, and compatibility testing.
• Generate test cases that ensure expected functionality and features are working within established benchmarks and client expectations.
• Build and maintain automated regression testing framework.
• Report and resolve software bugs.
• Prepare for User Acceptance Testing through best practice research, software utilization, and formulation of ideal tester profiles.
• Support developers in functionality distillation.
• Collaborate with coworkers outside primary team to provide needed data to development team.
• Record testing practices and procedures in on-going business documents.
• Work with programming team to establish development goals for upcoming work periods and adjust practices to ensure greater efficiency and effectiveness.
• Meet with product owner and project stakeholders about project progress.
• Assist Business Analysts with business requirement gathering, refinement, and documentation.

Skills/Experience Required

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are mandatory:

• Three (3) years of experience with manual software testing or manual QA.

Expertise and/or relevant experience in the following areas are desirable but not mandatory:

• Experience with automated testing frameworks (Selenium, etc...)
• Familiarity with SQL
• Experience in Agile software development approaches (Scrum Methodology, Kanban)
• Familiarity with Jira
• Familiarity with Jama and/or Zephyr testing systems
• Experience in unemployment insurance including but not limited to benefits, tax, appeals, benefit payment control, data validation, and program management.