Job Title: Quality Assurance 3 / QA3
Interviews: Onsite interviews are REQUIRED. ONLY onsite interviews will be conducted. Local candidates are preferred.
Resumes will be pushed through to manager: Tuesday, 5/24 at 3:00pm EST
As mentioned on previous Vendor Calls, PLEASE DO NOT reach out to ANY individuals at ODOT regarding this posting nor candidates for this posting. All questions/comments/etc. must be directed to the MSP Team, specifically, Abby Smith. Contact information can be found below. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and support on this.
ODOT is looking for TWO Quality Assurance Specialists 3 for the Division of Information Technology
The candidate will be supporting The Ohio Department of Transportation's Highway Information Management (HIM) and EnviroNet-Phase 4 projects. The position will go through the end of fiscal with extension into FY17.
Job Description:
The candidate will be supporting The Ohio Department of Transportation’s Highway Information Management (HIM) and EnviroNet-Phase 4 projects. This position will function as a highly skilled Quality Assurance Specialist.
Education:
4 year college degree or equivalent technical study.
Technical Skills:
REQUIRED:
7 years required experience testing I.T. products and applications
7 years required experience testing applications both COTS products and in-house developed
7 years required experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures both manual and automated
7 years required experience designing, developing test cases and logging defects with minimal supervision
3 years required experience with Microsoft Team Foundation (TFS)
3 years required experience with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
1 year required experience working on a project using AGILE methodologies
The ideal candidate will have the skill specified below:
- Excellent communication and leadership skills both written and oral.
- Strong influence, collaboration and negotiation experience.
- Ability to collaborate with supporting resources across business and/or functional lines.
- Have excellent organizational skills, proven analytical, planning, problem solving, and decision-making skills.
- Must meet productivity standards, complete work in timely manner and strive to increase productivity.
- Experience defining and developing quality standards.
- Conduct reviews according to schedule.
- Communicate and work with customers and other personnel as necessary.
- Report progress on action item resolution and possible risk areas and ensure action items are addressed and closed in a timely manner based on agreed dates and activities.
- Ensure that defined processes are followed.
- Organize and prepare work effectively to facilitate proactive resolution of problems, rather than reactive.
- Lead efforts in developing and facilitating implementation of team goals and metrics.
- Mentor and share knowledge with State staff.
- Contributes to continuous process improvements to increase the efficiency of QA and development.
- Able to anticipate and resolve issues dealing with software quality.
- Experience in developing and managing short and long-term plans and schedules for organization wide software quality needs.
Day-to-Day responsibilities include but not limited to:
- Assist IT in the design, pilot, and implementation of the software quality assurance review process.
- Provide feedback to project teams regarding process/procedure improvement opportunities and other potential areas for improvement discovered during software quality activities.
- Assist development teams test software quality for production deployment.
- Proactively engage in the end-to-end software testing cycle as it pertains to the project.
- Work closely with and follow direction from Team Lead.
- Contribute to the establishment of and meet quality goals and objectives for the project.
- Contribute to all aspects of quality assurance for the project including establishing relevant metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
- With input from Team Lead and team, develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures.
- Work with the ODOT project team to test updates, patches, and repairs to the application software components in the development, test, and QA environments.
- Take corrective action, subject to the ODOT Management approval, to resolve all issues and problems encountered with testing to ensure the applications perform as required.
