Senior QA Tester

TSPi is a dependable and trusted IT solutions provider. Using our technological expertise and industry specific knowledge, we offer our clients end-to-end solutions to their market specific challenges. We are looking for a Senior QA Tester to provide application development and consulting support to our government clients.

Responsibilities

• Test plan and test case development;
• Manual and automated testing of software functionality, installation, and regression;
• Bug management and error tracking; and
• Test report documentation.
• Coordination and prioritization of testing activities and the ability to work with multiple development teams and software projects are also critical for the selected candidate. Candidate must have the ability to independently troubleshoot software issues.
• Comfortable in Agile Development Methodology, especially Scrum / SAFe

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience with Quality Assurance practices and Testing Methodologies
• Experience with formal testing of complex server-based software systems
• Experience with executing functional, usability, and deployment testing
• Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and SQL scripting
• Experience with reporting of test results
• Experience with commercial bug management systems
• Experience testing in an agile development environment
• Excellent analytical and problem determination skills
• Demonstrated Documentation and Reporting experience
• Multi-tier computing environments including load balanced application (middleware) servers supported by back end database servers
• Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2012
• Test execution experience in Java
• Test Plan and Test Case Development based on software engineering documentation (testing based on product requirements) with Hands on experience
• Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, files systems, and other program objects.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office tool suite (including Visio)
• Bachelor Degree--preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, similar discipline, or equivalent work experience is required.
• Successful candidate is subject to a background investigation by the government and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of public trust.

Preferred Skills & Experience:

• Experience with Jira
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as Selenium/Gauge/Maven with Java.
• Experience with SOAPUI or ReadyAPI
• Experience testing products developed within the Pega framework
• Experience with the compliancy requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act for web applications design.
• Experience with source control management software, such as GIT
• Document management system experience
• Production software development experience with 2-3 structured Microsoft Visual Studio
• Microsoft C# and ASP.NET
• .NET, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) experience
• Cross-browser DHTML web design and testing
• Scripting Proficiency (i.e. Cygwin, Dos, Bash, Perl, Python, and/or VBscript)