Senior QA Test Lead -Albany, NY Hybrid

The position is in support (testing) of the UISIm project, a multi-year program effort to redesign, implement, and test business process improvements for the Department of Labor's customers, partners and internal staff. UISIm replaces the 40+ year old Unemployment Insurance (UI) legacy computer systems and manual procedures with a new and improved integrated computer system.

Day to Day Tasks :

Design and develop the following test artifacts :

Test Strategy document detailing how quality will be infused throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process

Test Scenarios / Cases (business entities / objects and their relationships)

Traceability matrix outlining the correlation between business rules, use cases, and corresponding test scenarios

Functional Test Plan describing the who, what, where, how, and why each business function will be tested

User Acceptance Test plan detailing entrance and exit criteria; including users in the process of decision-making re. testing specific business scenarios

Specific activities include :

1. Create SQL queries to verify tables are correctly populated

2. Participates in meetings with Business Analysts, Developers, and Architects in understanding requirements

3. Analyze Business and Technical requirements, identifying test scenarios based on business process

4. Execute functional test cases

5. Work with data management to acquire test data

6. Review Release Notes with each build for accuracy and completeness

7. Analyze test case failures; clearly and concisely report defects using QMC designated testing tool set, which includes HP ALM / QC, JIRA, Selenium and SoapUI / PostMan.

8. Create test execution summary report and communicate results to manager and project team

9. Coordinate all test artifacts in common test location in QMC designated testing tool set for version control

10. Re-test defects as assigned, following defect management process

Requested Qualification Number

Requested Qualification

Notes to Agency :

Points assigned will change depending on the number of Qualifications

submitted

There is no requirement to have 10 Qualifications.

Only Number of Months is an allowable unit of measurement for

experience.

Experience you have

60 months as a lead tester, writing / executing :

Test Scenarios / Cases (business entities / objects and their relationships)

Traceability matrix outlining the correlation between business rules, use cases, and corresponding test scenarios

Functional Test Plan describing the who, what, where, how, and why each business function will be tested

User Acceptance Test plan detailing entrance and exit criteria; including users in the process of decision-making re. testing specific business scenarios

60 months experience in Selenium WebDriver, Java, J2EE, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, Eclipse IDE

60 months writting SQL queries to validate correct back-end data processing and creating test data

48 months using GitHub, Maven, Jenkins, and familiar with CI / CD processes

48 months testing web services in a SOA environment including functional and performance testing using Jmeter / SoapUI / PostMan.

Required Documentation

R sum

Copy of Candidate Identification

(i.e., Driver's License / Green Card / Visa and Passport if applicable)

Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications

(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.)

Brandon Consulting Associates, Inc. is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER and has been in business for 29years.