Automation Tester/Child support/Tester

Request ID BL- 9799-1(99090412) Automation Tester with CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM, COMPONENT TESTING, INTEGRATION TESTING, SECURITY TESTING, PERFORMANCE TESTING, REGRESSION TESTING, ACCEPTANCE TESTING, SHAREPOINTWEBEX TOOLS, TFS, Agile and Financial experience. Work Location Columbia, SC 29210 Qty 1 Duration 12+ Months HrsWk 40.00 REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE) -5+ YEARSrsquo EXPERIENCE PREPARING, DOCUMENTING, AND EXECUTING TEST CRITERIA, TEST CASES, TEST SCRIPTS, AND TEST PLANS FOR IT SYSTEMS PROJECTS -2+ YEARSrsquo EXPERIENCE TESTING ON CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS -THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF TESTING CONCEPTS SUCH AS COMPONENT TESTING, INTEGRATION TESTING, SECURITY TESTING, PERFORMANCE TESTING, REGRESSION TESTING, ACCEPTANCE TESTING -EXPERIENCE TESTING BACK END BATCH PROCESSES AND ABLE TO VERIFYHANDLE THE OUTPUT DATA FILES. -ABILITY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND DATA MODELS AND ER DIAGRAMS. ABILITY TO USE SQL TO QUERY DATA. -ABILITY TO PLAN, ORGANIZE, INSTRUCT, AND REVIEW THE WORK OF THE TESTING TEAM -ABILITY TO USE MS OFFICE, SHAREPOINT, AND WEBEX TOOLS EFFECTIVELY -ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE (ORALLY AND WRITTEN) EFFECTIVELY WITH TECHNICAL, NON-TECHNICAL STAFF, CUSTOMERSSTAKEHOLDERS (STATE AND FEDERAL) AND EXECUTIVES -KNOWLEDGE OF INDUSTRY STANDARDS (E.G. ISO, IEEE) PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE) (SEE BEELINE DESCRIPTION) -EXPERIENCE WITH MICROSOFT TEAM FOUNDATION SERVER (TFS) AND MICROSOFT TEST MANAGER -UNDERSTANDING OF AGILE OR ITERATIVE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT METHODOLOGIES -A STRONG UNDERSTANDING OF THE BASICS OF FINANCIAL OPERATIONS, FROM RECEIPTS TO DISBURSEMENTS TO RECONCILIATION -EXPERIENCE WITH AUTOMATED TESTING TOOLS REQUIRED EDUCATION -BS DEGREE Education Bachelorrsquos Degree Yes 1 Miscellaneous Ability to deal effectively with the needs of technical peers, technical and user management, users, vendors, and staff members, and to communicate clearly and effectively in spoken and written form Yes 1 Expert Within 2 Years 4 ndash 6 Years Program Management Manual Testing Yes 2 Advanced Within 2 Years 4 ndash 6 Years Quality Assurance (QA) CREATION OF TEST SCENARIOS Yes 2 Advanced Within 2 Years 4 ndash 6 Years Quality Assurance (QA) INTEGRATION TESTING Yes 2 Advanced Within 2 Years 2 ndash 4 Years Quality Assurance (QA) Software Testing Yes 1 Lead Within 2 Years 4 ndash 6 Years Quality Assurance (QA) Test Case Development Yes 2 Expert Within 2 Years 4 ndash 6 Years Quality Assurance (QA) Test Scripts Yes 1 Lead Within 2 Years 4 ndash 6 Years Quality Assurance (QA) Interface Testing No 3 Advanced Within 2 Years 2 ndash 4 Years Quality Assurance (QA) MICROSOFT TEST MANAGER (MTM) No 3 Advanced Within 2 Years 2 ndash 4 Years Quality Assurance (QA) UAT ndash User Acceptance Testing No 3 Advanced Within 2 Years 2 ndash 4 Years Specialties Business Analyst Yes 1 Lead Within 2 Years 2 ndash 4 Years Specialties Child Support Enforcement System (CSES) Yes 2 Expert Within 2 Years 2 ndash 4 Years SCOPE OF THE PROJECT THE CFS PROJECT IS PART OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES (DSS) AND IS RESPONSIBLE FOR DEVELOPING, IMPLEMENTING, MAINTAINING, AND OBTAINING FEDERAL CERTIFICATION OF A FEDERALLY-MANDATED CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT SYSTEM (CSES) THAT WILL PROVIDE COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT TO THE OPERATION OF SOUTH CAROLINArsquoS CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT (CSE) PROGRAM AS WELL AS FOR COMPLETING THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FAMILY COURT CASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (FCCMS) FOR THE 46 CLERKS OF COURT. DAILY DUTIES RESPONSIBILITIES Report to the Functional Lead to monitor and support the execution of all testing phases related to system development. Primary Responsibilities -Plan Test Team activities -Work with the Statersquos Subject Matter Experts (SME) and Business Analysts to develop test scenariostest cases and test scripts. -Review requirements, component designs and use cases and maintain test script traceability to each as applicable -Prepare test data, including interface data files as needed, for executing test scripts -Execute test scripts -Record and verify test results -Analyze and report test results -Participate in functional design sessions -Report defects -Perform Regression Tests -Reproduce defectsdemonstrate defects to development as needed -Participate in Incident Review Meetings as needed -Provide data analysis and root cause analysis as needed -Participate on the monitoring and reporting on the execution of the System Development Contractorrsquos performance under the CFS Project contract as it relates to all testing phases. This involves working with System Development Contractorrsquos tools and appropriately extracting data to produce metrics and reports. Other Responsibilities include -Review Test Plans -Participate in Test Readiness Reviews -Review test related work products, including but not limited to system test reports, artifacts and requirements traceability matrix as needed. -Provide input to determine project test reportsmetrics Remote Work Availability 0