Quality Assurance Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer

The National Strategic Planning & Analysis Research Center (NSPARC) at Mississippi State University invites applications for a Quality Assurance Engineer. The successful candidate provides testing services for large and complex implementations of existing and new information systems as well as mobile applications. The selected candidate will be required to utilize the development environment and collaborative tools already in place at MSU. The candidate will be expected to be part of the overall software development lifecycle and assist with the efforts to release quality products according to an agreed upon delivery schedule.

MSU’s development approach is built on a continuous integration environment using an Agile-based methodology. MSU creates web and native mobile applications for the digital government market. These applications allow the end users of our customers to log in, perform registrations, generate reports, and perform case management and other operations that store and retrieve data from a database.

Quality Assurance Mandatory Qualifications

• Ability to perform Functional testing
• Ability to perform Regression Testing
• Ability to perform Integration Testing
• Ability to perform Manual Testing
• Ability to write automated tests
• Ability to write and maintain documentation
• Ability to mentor and train junior team members

Quality Assurance Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to perform API testing
• Preferred Education Level: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or related area from an accredited institution.