Title: Quality Assurance Analyst (hybrid)

Work authorization: any (candidate must be authorized to work in US)

Must-have skills:

EDU : BS/equiv

IBM Rational Functional Tester/ IBM Performance Tester

PREFERRED :

• Florida Safe Families Network (FSFN)

• Knowledge/understanding of FSFN technical architecture

• JIRA and Azure Dev Ops

• Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest

• Experience operating within an Agile development methodology

• Experience with Child Welfare applications and functionality

Location: Tallahassee, FL
Client: Florida Department of Children and Families - FDCF

Rate: please send resumes of your consultants along with their minimum rate they will accept to take (and stay) on this position.
Remote or onsite: hybrid

Type: long-term contract
Duration:4+ months with possible extensions

Additional information: The candidate should be able to provide an ID if the interview is requested, to guarantee the Client that the candidate submitted, interviewing and showing up for work is one and the same

Requirements:
• Availability to occasionally attend meetings and presentations on the Client’s site in Tallahassee, FL (required);
• Experience writing test scripts based on acceptance criteria;
• Experience with IBM Rational Functional Tester and IBM Performance Tester;
• Experience testing APIs/web services integration between applications;
• Experience running test scripts and documenting results, including documenting defects;
• Experience participating in daily scrum meetings with users and developers to report and suggest resolution to issues discovered during testing;
• Experience with Florida Safe Families Network (FSFN) (preferred);
• Experience with FSFN technical architecture (preferred);
• Experience using JIRA and Azure DevOps (preferred);
• Experience using Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest (preferred);
• Experience operating within an Agile development methodology;
• Experience in a technical business systems analyst position with a proven track record of working under pressure and delivering;
• Experience with Child Welfare applications and functionality (preferred);
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field;
• MBA (preferred).

Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
• Work with stakeholders and development team to determine requirements;
• Communicate changes, enhancements, and modifications verbally or through written documentation;
• Be perceptive, creative and a reliable problem-solver;
• Be independently motivated to take end-to-end ownership of tasks;
• Ensure technology solutions align with business needs and strategic goals;
• Research, document, test, and leverage business solutions;
• Create deliverables such as activity diagrams, use cases, user stories, entity-relationship diagrams, test scripts, etc.;
• Verify requirements for completeness, consistency, comprehensibility, feasibility, and conformity to standards;
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex problems utilizing knowledge of software applications and configuration;
• Perform quality assurance / testing of products and solutions;
• Maintain procedures manuals, topic papers, build notes, and system documentation;
• Develop/program system enhancements;
• Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT).