Austin, TX
QA Automation Technical Lead - Solicitation# 304141174
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA)

The Candidate will perform as the technical lead in highly advanced software development work as part of an agile team working under the direction and guidance of Application Services management. The Candidate must have strong hands-on technical experience with automation tools and proven success designing, developing, implementing, and testing front-end and back-end web user-interfaces in a large organization. The primary goal of the Candidate as a member of an agile scrum team will be to deliver well-designed, documented, and tested modern software applications that fully meet customer requirements. This Candidate will work on property tax related systems.
CPA will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform testing tasks such as:

Participating in all phases of Agile, including design, software development and testing.
Performing as the technical lead for test planning, test estimation, test strategy, workload design, test cases design, defect management and configuration/test data management.
Lead efforts to make sure test cases and automated test scripts are written and tested on time.
Lead functional, regression, ad-hoc, exploratory, smoke testing, integration testing and any other kind of software testing needed for the application in a timely manner.
Lead the generation of performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
Lead the execution of benchmark, load, stress, and other non-functional tests.

Must be able to:

work with Business Customers, Section Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and team members in a professional and collaborative manner to define strategies, implementation approaches and provide creative solutions to complex problems.
create well-designed, documented, and tested software solutions that meet strict availability, concurrency and low latency requirements.
support multiple scrum delivery teams with estimation for testing software applications.
perform layered application testing across multiple platform environments.
estimate the testing activities accurately to ensure that the production deployments are not impacted by testing schedules.
assist in the creation, preparation, development and execution of test strategies, test plans and test analysis.
document test strategy and create detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts and quality test data to ensure all software developed meet the defined requirements prior to the production release.
develop, enhance, update and maintain suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.
participate in the design and planning of automation for applications.
identify test scenarios to automate testing, including critical path, high risk functionality, tests prone to human error, tests that require multiple data sets, tests that take more time to perform manually and tests that are repetitive.
work with development teams to create, monitor, and measure (Efficacy, Reliability, Timing).

Must possess:

a solid understanding of software design, development and analysis of software.
knowledge of working in an agile development environment and follow agile processes and procedures.
knowledge of software development methodologies and frameworks, including Agile and Scrum
strong knowledge of .NET, C#, microservices, REST
strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
strong problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task with readiness to put in extra effort when necessary
familiarity with DevOps concepts and methodologies
ability to create detailed road maps to guide automation projects from conception to final implementation
the willingness to learn
ust perform other related work as assigned
Work Hours: Candidate must be available to work 8 to 5 Central Standard Time. Alternative work hours must be pre-approved by the Direct Supervisor. Requirements subject to change.

Must perform other related work as assigned
Work Hours: Candidate must be available to work 8 to 5 Central Standard Time. Alternative work hours must be pre-approved by the Direct Supervisor. Requirements subject to change.
Onsite Requirement: The Candidate will be working remotely since all Application Services programmers are teleworking. Onsite work will be very limited and must be pre-approved by the Direct Supervisor
Support Requirement: The Candidate may be required to provide support to an on-call programmer.

Minimum Requirements: Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Actual Years Experience	Years Experience Needed	Required/ Preferred	Skills/Experience
	8	Required	Experience as the Technical Lead in documenting test strategy and creating detailed test plans, cases/scripts, verification/validation documents and quality test data to ensure software developed meet defined requirements prior to the production release
	5	Required	Experience using database query: SQL
	5	Required	Experience in the use of automation tools such as (such as: Selenium Webdriver, Katalon, UFT and/or API -microservices level test automation expertise Postman)
	4	Required	Experience in writing automation scripts and executing them
	4	Required	Experience of software development methodologies, Agile and Scrum
	4	Required	Experience in analyzing bug reports and highlight solutions to help identify fixes for them
	4	Required	Experience using the following Tools: Jira, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket
	4	Required	Experience in utilizing test automation frameworks e.g. JUnit, TestNG
	4	Required	Experience in developing, enhancing, updating, and maintaining suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.
	4	Required	Experience in identifying test coverage gaps and improvements.
	4	Required	Experience with Build/Platform tools and continuous integration environments using Jenkins
	4	Required	Experience with Test Driven development
	3	Required	Experience in programming languages such as C#, Python, SQL, .NET, VBScript
	3	Required	Experience with highly complex application security requirements
	5	Preferred	Experience with T-SQL and Stored procedures
	5	Preferred	Experience with microservice architecture: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, AppD and application monitoring tools
	2	Preferred	Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)
	2	Preferred	Proficient with the Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, TEAMS, Microsoft Project, Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint

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