QA Analyst (FDA experience)

FDACS, Division of Food, Nutrition, and Wellness (FNW), is seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst to develop and execute formal test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications. This will involve test planning, writing test cases/scripts, test execution, and facilitating user acceptance testing (UAT) sessions with staff. Provide quality assurance efforts for business processes performed by FNW or that are expected to result from new business needs and/or legislative changes. The Quality Assurance Analyst will complete a series of tasks needed for the FANS modernization project and the maintenance of FNW applications.

The Quality Assurance Analyst will work full‑time with Department staff to understand the intended business needs and technical requirements of tasks necessary to ensure deliverables are met and conform to Department standards. Reviews will occur through participation in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions, design/development/testing meetings, technical documentation reviews, and testing.

Preference will be given to candidate with:

• intimate knowledge of FNW's business processes.
• intimate knowledge of the Florida Direct Certification (FDC) Application.
• intimate knowledge of the Florida Automated Nutrition System (FANS) Application.
• intimate knowledge of the Admin Review Application (AR)

SKILLS

To accomplish the work outlined above, client requires an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst with the following skills and experience listed below. Technical Skills, written and verbal communication, and experience will be the basis for evaluation of

• Bachelor of Science degree in an Information Technology related field is preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or Business Analysis
• Minimum 7 years with Agile Software Development
• Minimum 7 years of experience in manual testing; validate system functionality by authoring test scenarios and executing manual checks against business requirements.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in automation testing; designing, writing, and executing automation test scripts to verify system functionality and finding software bugs.
• Minimum 7 years with Azure DevOps and/or Team Foundation Server (TFS).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in conducting meetings with individuals and groups of people to discuss business processes.
• Minimum 7 years with Joint Application Development (JAD) techniques.
• Minimum 7 years with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in designing, maintaining, and scaling custom automated testing frameworks from scratch (e.g., using Page Object Model).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in automation testing; designing, writing, and executing automation test scripts using a variety of tools (Selenium or similar) to verify system functionality and find software bugs.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in generating automation scripts and updating existing to align with ongoing UI shifts and new feature deployments.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in REST API and Microservices testing; executing endpoint validation, contract checks, and payload verification using Insomnia or similar API tools.
• Proficiency in testing and validating REST APIs using tools like Postman, Insomnia, or other API testing tools.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in translating functional specification into technical specification from which programmers can construct the solution.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in translating the information from meetings and written materials into process models and/or process flow models.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working with various stakeholders and team members to understand requirements, understand data needs and resolve issues.
• Minimum 7 years of experience creating technical documentation.
• Excellent verbal and writing skills and the ability to develop and present complex material effectively to a variety of audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to establish and maintain good working relationships with team members, agency representatives, external representatives, and vendor staff.
• Able to work independently, to work against a plan, to meet deadlines, to follow procedures and to produce deliverables.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills.
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.