Quality Engineer / Quality Assurance Engineer

About the Role

Capital Technology Alliance is seeking an experienced Quality Engineer / Quality Assurance Engineer to support enterprise software quality assurance, testing, process improvement, and quality assessment activities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze project requirements, business requirements, functional specifications, and system design documents to determine comprehensive testing requirements.
• Develop, document, maintain, and execute formal test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test scripts.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, database, and other required testing to ensure delivery of high-quality software applications.
• Participate in test automation development and execution activities.
• Design and manipulate test data to support comprehensive application and database testing.
• Perform database testing in Microsoft SQL Server environments, including validation of:
  • Stored procedures
  • SQL Server jobs
  • Triggers
  • Replication
  • Data integrity and business rules
• Define, track, analyze, and report QA metrics, including defect counts, defect status, test execution results, and overall testing progress.
• Document defects and identified quality issues and work collaboratively with development teams through resolution and retesting.
• Facilitate test plan reviews, use-case reviews, and testing discussions with development teams, business users, and key stakeholders.
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and provide demonstrations of fully tested application functionality.
• Analyze quality and testing data to identify opportunities for continuous process improvement.
• Incorporate testing findings and improvement recommendations into business and technical processes.
• Conduct quality audits and assessments across IT functions to ensure compliance with established quality standards, procedures, and methodologies.
• Provide quality-process training to technical teams and serve as an internal quality consultant.
• Collaborate with technical, business, State, and Federal stakeholders through project meetings and conference calls as required.
• Research emerging technologies and evaluate their potential use within the project and technical environment.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of combined IT and business experience.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant Quality Assurance experience, including software/system development, testing, and/or business applications.
• Minimum 2 years of audit, assessment, quality review, or related experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server database testing.
• Experience creating and manipulating test data and validating stored procedures, SQL jobs, triggers, and replication.
• Demonstrated ability to translate business, functional, and technical requirements into comprehensive test plans and test cases.
• Strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, QA processes, SDLC/STLC, defect management, and quality assurance best practices.
• Strong understanding of business processes and their relationship to system functionality and testing requirements.
• Ability to effectively communicate testing results, defects, risks, and quality metrics to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, documentation, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Location: Tallahassee, FL
Work Arrangement: On-Site