Software Test Analyst #160068

Software Test Analyst 5
1 Year Contract
Hybrid Job (Required onsite days- Wednesdays and Thursdays) - (Remote
eligible days- Mondays Tuesdays and Fridays)
Lansing Michigan

Job Summary:
The Software Test Analyst 5 position will work as a contract resource
for the State of Michigan - Department of Technology Management and
Budget (DTMB) supporting the Michigan Department of Health and Human
Services (MDHHS). This resource will be a part of the Michigan
Department of Health and Human Services Accounts Receivable and
Collections (MDHHS ARC) Project. The resource will act as a software
test analyst with duties including designing and executing manual and
automated test cases generating and documenting test plans and
strategies generating testing reports and metrics API testing and ADA
Compliance testing.
Required Qualifications (5 years of experience)

Testing & Quality Assurance Skills
- Designing and executing manual and automated test cases.
- Ability to analyze requirements user stories (in Azure DevOps) and
acceptance criteria to design effective reusable test cases
(including positive negative and boundary testing).
- Generating and documenting test plans and strategies.
- API testing and tools like Postman Rest Client and others.
- Understanding software testing methodologies and quality assurance
processes (Quality Assurance User Acceptance System Integration
Accessibility Performance Regression Post Deployment Validation
Data Conversion).
- Generating testing reports and metrics.
- Generating and acquiring test data.
- ADA Compliance testing tools such as AccVerify JAWS etc.
- Build environments DEV UAT QAT PRE-PROD specific test suites
with integrated application life cycle management.
- Experience in identifying documenting and tracking bugs clearly
and concisely in a tool like Azure DevOps.
- Senior-level (3-5 years) hands-on experience performing performance
and load testing using tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner including
scripting executing test scenarios analyzing results and
identifying system bottlenecks.

Automation & Technical Skills
- Demonstrable experience automating web applications using frameworks
such as Playwright Selenium Cypress or similar.
- Proven experience writing clean maintainable and object-oriented
Java code for test automation.
- Writing clear and effective Gherkin scenarios (Given/When/Then).
- Implementing Step Definitions in Java.
- Writing SQL and P-SQL queries.
- Ability to write and execute SQL queries (SELECTs JOINs) for test
data setup and validation against Oracle and/or SQL Server
databases.
- Proficiency in using Git for version control (merging pull
requests) as part of a team.
Agile & Collaboration
- Experience working as an active participant in an Agile/Scrum team
and its ceremonies.
- Strong ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to
understand requirements and design test cases.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced
agile development environment.
- Strong skills in communicating test results bugs and risks to
developers BAs and other stakeholders.
- Security & Compliance
- Understanding of the secure application development lifecycle
(SADLC).

Soft Skills & Other Requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in person in downtown Lansing 2 days a week.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience automating web applications using the Playwright for Java
library.
- A background in Selenium WebDriver which provides a strong
foundation for understanding the strategies and nuances of browser
automation.
- Experience using Azure DevOps Testing Module.
- Experience with Mobile App testing of iOS and Android applications.
- Experience using Eclipse as a primary development environment.
- Experience with the TestNG framework. (This remains valuable since
your framework uses it for test running and its skipping logic).
- Additional experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter
or LoadRunner including advanced workload modeling or CI/CD-based
performance automation.
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman RESTAssured or
APIRequestContext.

Required Skills:

GITAPI TESTINGTESTINGJMETERSELENIUMP-SQLJAWSAGILESELENIUM WEBDRIVERSQL SERVERPOSTMANIOSCI/CDAUTOMATIONSQLLOADRUNNERDATA CONVERSIONTESTNGUATJAVA