Title: Quality Assurance Specialist
Location: Columbus, OH
Duration: 2 Months

Day-to-Day responsibilities include but not limited to:

• With input from Team Lead and team, develop and execute test cases, scripts, plans and procedures.
• Work with the project team to test updates, patches, and repairs to the application software components in the development, test, and QA environments.
• Proactively engage in the end-to-end software testing cycle as it pertains to the project.
• Take corrective action to resolve all issues and problems encountered with testing to ensure the applications perform as required.
• Provide feedback to project teams regarding process/procedure improvement opportunities and other potential areas for improvement discovered during software quality activities.
• Work closely with and follow direction from Team Lead.
• 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.
• Contribute to the establishment of and meet quality goals and objectives for the project.

The ideal candidate will have the skill specified below:

• Proven experience defining and developing quality standards across large and complex implementations and systems.
• Conduct quality assurance reviews according to schedule.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills both written and oral.
• 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.
• Communicate and work with customers and other personnel as necessary.
• Ensure that defined processes are followed.
• Share knowledge with State staff.
• Contributes to continuous process improvements to increase the efficiency of QA and development.
• Organize and prepare work effectively to facilitate proactive resolution of problems, rather than reactive.
• Able to anticipate and resolve issues dealing with software quality.

REQUIRED:

• 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study.
• 10 years required experience testing I.T. products and applications
• 10 years required experience developing and executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures both manual and automated
• 10 years required experience designing, developing test cases and logging defects
• 7 year required experience working on a project using AGILE methodologies
• 3 years required experience with Microsoft Team Foundation (TFS)
• 3 years required experience with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)