DSHS FTAA DIT Quality Assurance Senior Specialist

About the role

The Test Lead – IT Quality Assurance Senior/Specialist is responsible for leading the testing process, ensuring the quality of coding changes for critical eligibility systems, and guiding testing efforts across the DIT Quality Assurance team.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring the quality of coding changes delivered for ACES complex applications that are critical to the delivery of food, cash, and medical benefits.
• Lead the testing of complex projects; Oversees and manages essential environment maintenance and patching for multiple test environments, ensuring a stable foundation for the testing required to successfully support project deliverables.
• Make decisions and complete tasks regarding maintenance and the access of test environments.
• Apply strategic expertise to incorporate existing processes and develop new methods/procedures/approaches to complete projects.
• Complete research on new technologies and tools, provides a recommendation for implementation and guides integration.
• Train new staff and provide enhanced training for existing staff using their advanced knowledge of testing principles, concepts, and practices.
• Maintain relationships with State and Federal Agency partners to coordinate test efforts for shared functionality.
• Partners with project manager, business analysts, and key business partners to ensure accurate bug triaging, prioritization, and swift issue escalation.

Requirements

This project is anticipated to last until June 2027 but may be extended. Some Of What You'll Do:

• Ensure the quality of coding changes delivered for ACES complex applications that are critical to the delivery of food, cash, and medical benefits.
• Lead the testing of complex projects; Oversees and manages essential environment maintenance and patching for multiple test environments, ensuring a stable foundation for the testing required to successfully support project deliverables.
• Make decisions and complete tasks regarding maintenance and the access of test environments.
• Apply strategic expertise to incorporate existing processes and develop new methods/procedure/approach to complete projects.
• Complete research on new technologies and tools, provides a recommendation for implementation and guides integration.
• Train new staff and provide enhanced training for existing staff using their advanced knowledge of testing principles, concepts and practices.
• Maintain relationships with State and Federal Agency partners to coordinate test efforts for shared functionality.
• Partners with project manager, business analysts and key business partners to ensure accurate bug triaging, prioritization, and swift issue escalation.

Qualifications

• Professional experience as a test analyst using software testing methodologies, experience with hierarchical and relational database management systems, experience testing web and/or client server applications.
• Experience with industry test workflow and requirement definition tools.
• Experience using XML, SQL and file manager tools.
• Two years of professional experience in a leadership role within a QA team.

Skills

Proficiency in software testing methodologies, experience with hierarchical and relational database management systems, experience testing web and/or client server applications, experience with industry test workflow and requirement definition tools, experience using XML, SQL and file manager tools, and leadership experience in a QA team.

Benefits

Normal working hours are Monday– Friday, 08:00 am to 05:00 pm. Some evening and weekend work may be required. Occasional work in excess of 40 hours per week is required to support critical problem resolution, production operations, and off-hours/on-call rotation.

Pay

Salary range: $80,000 - $100,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Schedule

Full-time, normal working hours are Monday– Friday, 08:00 am to 05:00 pm. Occasional work in excess of 40 hours per week is required to support critical problem resolution, production operations, and off-hours/on-call rotation.