Quality Assurance Analyst

Job Description:
The Mississippi Department of Education has a current goal for every community to effectively use a World-Class Data System to improve student outcomes. This goal has an outcome to increase the availability of quality data to drive decisions that improve student outcomes. We are planning to satisfy this goal in part by modernizing our current student information system along with improving the quality of data in connected systems. This will include web-based application development, and creation of dashboards and reports that will improve access, accuracy and ease of use for all stakeholders.

• PUBLIC SECTOR Experience with Department of Education
• Must be able to Give Three references
• Must be able to provide Samples of previous documents created strongly preferred.
• SME LEVEL QA

PROJECT NAME: OTSS Project
AGENCY: Mississippi Department of Education- MDEK

Description:
This position will require a qualified Quality Assurance Analyst to take the lead in the following tasks:

• Review and validate the output of SQL and ETL development to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and alignment with business rules.
• Develop and execute detailed data test plans, test cases, and validation scripts targeting Azure Synapse pipelines, stored procedures, and data transformations.
• Reconcile data between source systems, staging areas, and curated data layers in Azure Data Lake or Synapse.
• Conduct regression testing on modified pipelines, stored procedures, or data models to confirm that changes do not introduce new issues.
• Collaborate with data engineers, ETL developers, and business analysts to document and resolve data discrepancies.
• Maintain data QA documentation including test results, issue logs, and validation procedures.
• Support the development of automated data quality checks or unit tests using SQL, Python, or other approved tools.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, data validation frameworks, and DevOps testing integration.

REQUIRED Degree:
Bachelor’s degree

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE
Must be able to effectively communicate (verbally and written) test cases with stakeholders as well as the development team.
Must be able to collaborate with the Project Manager, Architect, Business Analyst, and developers to ensure test cases are communicated, accepted, and meet expectations.
Must be able to write test plans, test cases, and test scripts from scratch, validating that user expectations are achieved during the testing process.
Must be able to work closely with the Business Analysts to formulate test plans, prepare test cases, execute the tests, and fully document and report the results.
Must be able to perform user acceptance testing, functionality testing, regression testing, performance testing, and end-to-end system testing on various applications. Documentation includes: Formal Test Plan, Test Case Document, Technical Use Cases and Test Plan, User stories, etc.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Must be able to review user requirements to ensure that requirements are testable.
• Must be able to create diagrams, flowcharts, and workflows of data flow through systems.
• Must be able to create and manage test cases for Quality Assurance.
• Must be familiar with software and database development concepts.
• Must have experience as a Quality Assurance Analyst working on a software development team.
• Must have strong experience in QA management and creating all documents listed above.
• Must have strong experience in mapping business processes into test case documentation.
• Must understand software quality best practices, test strategy and planning, test case development, test case deployment and execution, test data, defect tracking, and test manuals. Must actively participate in process improvements.
• Strong experience in acceptance testing
• Ability to analyze business functions
• Scrum
• Agile

Work remote temporarily due to COVID-19.