Software Quality Assurance Tester

QA Engineer Automated 2

Texas Education Agency requires the services of 1 QA Engineer Automated 2, hereafter referred to as Candidate(s), who meets the general qualifications of QA Engineer Automated 2, Quality Assurance (QA) and Testing and the specifications outlined in this document for the Texas Education Agency. All work products resulting from the project shall be considered "works made for hire" and are the property of the Texas Education Agency and may include pre-selection requirements that potential Vendors (and their Candidates) submit to and satisfy criminal background checks as authorized by Texas law. Texas Education Agency will pay no fees for interviews or discussions, which occur during the process of selecting a Candidate(s).

The Software Quality Assurance Tester performs advanced and/or supervisory computer systems analysis and team lead work, administering the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) section of IT-SEDS (Information Technology – Statewide Education Data System). Work involves planning, budgeting, and analyzing user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing systems.

This position will work with the Texas Student Data System (TSDS) development team to provide the following Software Testing Services:

• Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop detailed test cases
• Perform functional, regression and automation testing, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail
• Perform advanced SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data
• Work with development team and customers to clearly understand the functionality under test to help determine test cases and clearly communicate issues found

The Texas Student Data System (TSDS) modernizes and improves the quality of data collection, management, and reporting in Texas education.

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.