Lansing MI - IT - DTMB - Agency Services - DHHS - Software Test Analyst 4

Job Title: Test Analyst
Location: Lansing MI
Duration: Long Term Contract

Justification:

This position will function as the Test Analyst for Agency Services supporting MDHHS within the Department of Technology Management and Budget. Vital Records exists to register preserve and issue certified copies of vital records. This includes birht death fetal death marriage and divorce certifictes for all events that occur in Michigan. Vital statistics are compiled from these event registries and from Michigans Central Cancer Registry and Birth Defects Registry to support publich health policy and biomedical research.

The Test Analyst will support all test activities for EDRS BRS and VERA applications in terms of communications to and from the Lead Business Analysts and ensuring through the Lead Test Analyst that key test issues are managed or escalated as necessary. Additionally will produce reports presentations and meeting minutes for quality assurance testing assignments and deliverables as required.

Summary:

Communicate and interact with the BA and development teams during the requirements development and testing processes.

Assist team in creating test scenarios to meet the validation of acceptance criteria of business requirements.

Undertake all system test related activities in support of the business requirements for the provision of application updates.

Undertake functional and integration testing and liaison with thirdparty staff to ensure appropriate test coverage.

Undertake Quality Assurance checks during thirdparty meetings and internal developments to ensure that only complete code is delivered into test environments owned by the test team.

Attend meetings as well as workshops comprising business and or technical representatives to cover testdependent activities such as requirement verification and prioritization test scenario identification and general matters.

Develop publish and implement test plans using Azure DevOps.

Ensure that test scenarios are prioritized to reflect business or technical priorities and are approved by appropriate stakeholders.

Coordinate retesting of defects and issues with BA and thirdparty staff to ensure no new defects are introduced to Production environment.

Prepare and maintain relevant test documentation including test scripts activity schedules narrative and written reports and visual progress charts.

Prepare and maintain automated test scripts schedule for testing and review and share test results with project team Develop load and implement load testing strategies and perform the load testing and share results with project team

Responsible for: time management; reporting and monitoring; risk management; issue management; quality assurance and change management.

Support other test team members and associated IT and Business resources as appropriate to the implementation of testing related activities.

Work in an agile environment and understand agile methodologies.

Carry out other tasks as agreed with the Lead Test Analyst and Lead Business Analyst.

Skills:

7 years experience in system/application quality assurance testing.

7 years experience in documenting and executing test cases and test scenarios based upon acceptance criteria of requirements

7 years experience in troubleshooting and tracking defects.

7 years experience practicing testing methodologies such as black box testing white box testing functional testing regression testing etc.

5 years of experience implementing Load testing strategies and implementing Load testing on projects

3 years of experience implementing automated testing on project using Selinum and or Smartbear testing tool.

3 years experience using Azure DevOps or another like project management software for Agile development including test driven development.

3 years experience using API testing tool Postman or like software tool.

3 years experience executing queries against SQL and Oracle databases to locate specific data sets for analysis.