IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for a QA Testing Automation Analyst. Client is in the process of a complete redesign of their external-facing web portals, internal line-of-business application, and their call center CRM application. The goal of this position is to create flexible and reusable test plans and scripts to verify the functional and performance of the redesigned applications against the requirements.

Tasks

• Identify the requirements, design and test plan documentation for changes to our application software systems.
• Participate in all project stand-ups, requirements sessions, user design meetings, test planning sessions, sprint planning and product demonstrations.
• Develop robust test plans for approval by the project, business and QA teams.
• Follows both the State and industry best practices for quality assurance.
• Responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated tests that can verify software functionality and performance.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: 

• Ability to identify application security requirements, and to coordinate security scans with the project team.
• Experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
• Understanding of testing cycles to help identify the context of the test plans (functional, performance, security, acceptance and regression).
• Ability to engage the test automation group to efficiently automate test plans and to identify test data.
• Ability to identify and document application performance requirements, including load parameters and service-level agreements.
• Ability to evaluate and document test results, including defect reporting and management.
• Ability to work and communicate well with all levels of IT coworkers and users.
• Ability to prepare detailed written instructions and technical documentation using industry best practices.
• Ability to work under pressure and tight timelines and diagnose and resolve complex problems quickly.
• Familiarity with other technologies as identified through discovery.
• Responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated tests that can verify software functionality and performance.
• Flexibility to work with others.

Location: Lansing, MI (Candidates must be currently located in Lansing or within driving distance (2 hours max). Relocation is not allowed. Hybrid schedule. Will need to be onsite from day 1, two days a week.)

Contract: 1 year

Skills Required:

• 3-5 years - Experience with Playwright (or comparable tool)
• 3-5 years - Experience with Locust (or comparable tool)
• 3-5 years - Experience with Python, VS Code or similar
• 3-5 years Experience with Azure DevOps
• 3-5 years - Experience with Git
• 3-5 years - Experience with Microsoft Dynamics development technologies
• Experience working within an Agile SDLC methodology
• Experience writing Structured Query Language (SQL) to identify and create test data
• Experience in Smoke, Regression, functional and performance testing criteria
• Experience performing user story sessions with customers
• Experience developing success criteria during the development of user stories
• Experience with documenting test plans, both manual and automated, to validate positive and negative validation criteria
• Experience with providing requirements/user story traceability reports & test coverage metrics
• Experience with the Agile SDLC methodology utilized in the development of new systems and enhancements
• Experience providing test effort estimations and daily stand-up status reports
• Experience working with developers to identify risk areas within the application that may require additional testing
• Experience in running smoke tests for each deployment/release

Skills Desired A plus to have:

• Experience with OpenText Unified Functional Testing (UFT)
• Experience with OpenText LoadRunner
• Experience with testing automation tools in general

***Rate depends on experience

*** Local candidates preferred, not mandatory

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We are not sponsoring H1B candidates at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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