Quality Assurance Specialist 3 local only

Interviews will be via MS Teams. Onsite 5 days a week at 1980 West Broad St, Columbus. This position will support the Division of Information Technology at the Ohio Department of Transportation. Ideal Candidate Excellent communication and leadership skills, both written and oral. Strong influence, collaboration, and negotiation experience. Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines. Have excellent organizational skills and proven analytical, planning, problem-solving, and decision‑making skills. Must meet productivity standards, complete work in a timely manner, and strive to increase productivity. Experience defining and developing quality standards. Conduct reviews according to schedule. Communicate and work with customers and other personnel as necessary. Report progress on action item / defect resolution and possible risk areas and ensure action items are addressed and closed in a timely manner based on agreed dates and activities. Ensure that defined processes are followed. Organize and prepare work effectively to facilitate proactive resolution of problems, rather than reactive ones. Mentor and share knowledge with State staff. Contributes to continuous process improvements to increase the efficiency of QA and development. Able to anticipate and resolve issues dealing with software quality. Experience in developing and managing short‑ and long‑term plans and schedules for organization‑wide software quality needs. Knowledge of automated testing applications not required – nice to have. Knowledge of the ServiceNow project tracking tool not required, but nice to have. Experience with SQL Databases. Day-to-day responsibilities Assist IT in the design, pilot, and implementation of the software quality assurance review process. Provide feedback to project teams regarding process/procedure improvement opportunities and other potential areas for improvement discovered during software quality activities. Assist development teams test software quality for production deployment. Proactively engage in the end‑to‑end software testing cycle as it pertains to the project. Perform database queries for testing as needed by the project. Work closely with and follow direction from Team Lead. Contribute to the establishment of and meet quality goals and objectives for the project. Contribute to all aspects of quality assurance for the project, including establishing relevant metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met. With input from the team lead and team, develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans, and procedures. Work with the ODOT project team to test updates, patches, and repairs to the application software components in the development, test, and QA environments. Take corrective action, subject to ODOT management approval, to resolve all issues and problems encountered with testing to ensure the applications perform as required. Review project s required work products to ensure compliance with approved tailored procedures and standards. Perform detailed reviews of interim and final tasks as appropriate. Perform or manage the required software quality phase end reviews of work product and process for each software project and produce the required software quality reports, as specified in the project’s software quality plan. Required Experience Experience testing I.T. products and applications – 7 years. Experience testing applications both COTS products and in‑house developed – 7 years. Experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures both manual and automated – 7 years. Experience designing, developing test cases and logging defects with minimal supervision – 7 years. Experience working on a project using AGILE methodologies – 1 year. #J-18808-Ljbffr Atash Enterprises, LLC