Rate: $75/hr (1099 only)

Location: Carson City, NV (100% onsite; local candidates will be given preference; candidates that do not live in the area must be willing and able to relocate, at their own expense, if selected)

Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree

Background and Experience and Skills Required-

The Nevada Secretary of State’s Office is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to join the Orion Program supporting several Project Initiatives to streamline/modernize/improve the customer and internal user experience for the State’s Online Business Licensing Management services. The selected candidate will lead Test engineers in drafting of Test Plans, development of test cases and scripts, proposal of design for a test infrastructure, proposal of testing and automated testing procedures.

Provide Quality Assurance Engineering skills:

· The Quality Assurance Engineer writes Test Plans, Test Cases, Test Sets and Schedule Test Executions

· Writing Test cases

· Training test engineers, Q/A Techs and Acceptance Testers from business units.

· Strong knowledge of Ranorex, Rapise, QTP (UFT), Selenium or similar Automation Solutions

· Practical knowledge of Source Control and experience working with GIT, GITHub, Source Tree, TortoiseGit or similar tools.

· Configuration and implementation of Automated Test products

· Interface with technical teams to engineer all necessary test scenarios.

· Good understanding of RDBMS (Oracle and SQL Server) with large, complex data sets

· Draft Acceptance criteria

· Capture Acceptance

· Managing and maintaining a test framework

Provide expertise to manage a Quality Assurance Manual and Automation Test Suites and the QA Process for the Orion portfolio. To do this successfully, the selected resources will be comfortable performing the following duties:

· Collaborate with Business and Technical teams to ensure the Quality Assurance process successfully supports the deployment of fully tested code to our environment within the accepted parameters defined by the SOSTek team.

· Ensure technical and customer requirements for assigned projects are achieved

· Strong acumen for reading technical documents / requirements and being able to translate that to the product.

· Demonstrated experience implementing, configuring and managing automated testing tools successfully.

· Proven industry experience using Agile Software Development practices (Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment…)

· Provide training on the Automated Testing Tools/Services for the technical and business teams that will use them.

· Programming experience in C#, VBScript, Python, JavaScript is a big plus

· Lead automation script development and optimization of those scripts.

· Manage the execution of automated tests and its automated scripts integration with the test management tool.

· Collect and report quality metrics from test executions.

· Develop, execute and lead (in collaboration with QA Manager) the Automation planning, Scripting, and maintenance strategy.

· Experience measuring performance and performing load tests and strong understanding of how to interpret the results and determine root cause for issues identified.

· Participate in technical discussions and issue identification/resolution with Engineering teams comprised of internal and external resources.

· Support engineering, development, release management and customer support organizations in troubleshooting and/or addressing issues with applications and environments.

· Experience writing technical documents describing any technical deficiencies.

2. Qualifications

· BS in Computer Science or related field with 10 or more years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

· Communicates clearly in English, both verbally and in writing, with project team members and stakeholders

· Demonstrated ability to plan, organize and deliver QA testing in-line with our Release management cycle.

· Knowledge of Risk Management and Risk Analysis process.

· Thorough understanding of the Quality Assurance processes and methodologies in a software development environment.

· Excellent written and verbal skills.

· Demonstrated can-do attitude.

· Ability to resolve problems with minimal management assistance; escalates appropriately.

· Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities. Moves quickly to address unexpected problems or opportunities.

· Experience with Continuous Integration (CI) tools, such as Jenkins, to create and maintain automation and manual testing infrastructure.

· Strong comprehension of automated testing implementation and strategies.

· Experience testing all layers of a web application, including front-end, service layer, and back-end connection testing.

To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States.

Job Types: Full-time, Contract

Pay: $75.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Compensation package:

• 1099 contract

Experience level:

• 10 years

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• IT Quality Assurance: 10 years (Required)
• government IT project: 5 years (Preferred)
• Test automation: 5 years (Required)

Ability to Relocate:

• Carson City, NV 89701: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person