Job Overview

Plan, design, and execute systems and applications testing on projects within the assigned Agile team. Work collaboratively with the members of the functional area (Quality Assurance) to support the IDEAS team and other DTS teams. 

Essential Functions

• Develop test plans, cases, scripts, and reports for software application development projects. 
• Execute test cases utilizing targeted test data and report results and exceptions (defects).
• Plan, participate, and guide execution of User Acceptance Test with BCS.
• Participate in business/functional requirements development, ensure that defined requirements are testable.
• Participate in defining Acceptance criteria for definition of test completeness and coverage.
• Document and manage defects process during product development phase. Lead defect triage meetings and provide defect status reporting. Perform root cause analysis for discovered defects and recommend process improvement for prevention of defects. 
• Utilize risk-based testing process to assure that high priority business functions tested first.
• Identify and communicate all risks relative to testing for evaluation by project team. Identify and document all product discrepancies during test execution phase.
• Define most effective test strategy for each project based on technology, complexity, scope, and timeline.
• Provide constant input for QA/test process improvements to achieve high quality product release.
• Ensure compliance of the application with defined standards and guidelines (security, accessibility, etc.).
• Establish and document measurable test objectives and provide test metrics progress reports to project team.
• Manage daily tasks assignments for multiple test resources on the same project.
• Provide QA subject matter mentoring for co-op students and student workers.
• Develop and execute automated scripts to support CI/CD process and regression testing. 
• Create test automation common cases library, enhance current test automation framework.
• Perform related duties based on departmental need. This job description can be changed at any time.

Required Education

• Associate's Degree.
• Four (4) years of relevant education, experience and/or other specialized training can fulfill minimum education and experience requirements.

Required Experience

• Two (2) years of relevant experience. 
• Working knowledge of Waterfall and Agile/Scrum software development methodologies.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices and procedures of S/W quality assurance testing and the ability to apply this knowledge and skills to a range of professional assignments.
• Demonstrated hands-on knowledge of designing and documenting test strategy, test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria and user stories.
• Experience in creation and maintenance of complex datasets for test execution, understanding of data validation, data security and data governance processes.
• Demonstrated hands-on knowledge of Test automation and Test automation tools and frameworks (Selenium, KSE, etc.).
• Expert knowledge of WCAG2.0 AA Compliance Auditing & Testing.
• Expert knowledge of Information Security scanning & remediation support.
• Extended knowledge of Atlassian Jira and related tools for project planning and management, tasks and defects management.

Additional Qualifications Considered

• Experience with WCAG 2.1, WCAG 2.2, ATAG, or other Accessibility standards that support the implementation.
• Use of Test Management plugins with Jira (Xray).
• Use of other Test Management tools.
• Agile certifications.

Physical Requirements/Work Environment