IT Quality Assurance - Senior Specialist

State of Washington•Multiple Locations Statewide, WA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) is seeking an IT Quality Assurance - Senior Specialist to play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and quality of enterprise applications that support the agency’s mission to improve public safety by positively changing lives. As an IT Quality Assurance - Senior Specialist, you will lead testing initiatives through the design, development, and maintenance of automated test scripts, testing frameworks, and custom testing tools. You will validate that business and technical requirements are implemented correctly, applications perform as expected, and software solutions align with industry best practices before they are deployed to production. This role serves as an independent quality advocate, providing objective testing and validation throughout the software development lifecycle. By building and enhancing automated testing capabilities, you will improve application quality, increase testing efficiency, and help deliver secure, reliable technology solutions that support critical correctional operations across the state.

Requirements

A Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field AND Six (6) years of information technology experience OR High school diploma or equivalent AND Ten (10) years of information technology experience
Six (6) years’ programming experience using Object Oriented languages like C# or Java or scripting languages like VBScript, JavaScript
Four (4) years’ professional experience in software, testing; documenting and executing effective test plans and test cases for testing applications
Four (4) years’ experience developing highly complex SQL queries

Nice To Haves

Two (2) years’ experience in performance and load testing using LoadRunner, JMeter or other industry standard load testing tools
One (1) year of experience developing test suites using RSAT

Responsibilities

Developing automation testing frameworks, custom test tools, and test scripts which could include: Developing test suites for systems using industry standard frameworks and approaches
Developing innovative, custom, test tools to analyze and confirm the accuracy of mission critical calculations
Developing and maintaining an automated testing framework
Developing and maintaining test automation standards
Reviewing automated test cases and verifies adherence to established standards
Designing, developing, and maintaining automated Regression test cases utilizing VBScript, SQL, C#, PowerShell
Executing automated test suite and analyzes results in support of project and maintenance release efforts
Developing automation tools to assist application development activities within the Quality Assurance team and other Planning and Delivery teams
Designing and implementing performance and load testing frameworks, configuring and maintaining load generation equipment statewide, executing performance and load test runs, analyzing the results and reporting findings and making recommendations to include: Designing and implementing a custom, highly scalable, scripting framework to provide a low-maintenance and robust performance testing solution for a large, complex application
Standing-up and configuring Virtual Table Server (VTS) to handle wide-ranging runtime data requirements
Developing complex SQL queries and batch processes to efficiently populate VTS datasheets
Deploying and configuring Load Generator client machines statewide
Developing and implementing test plans for testing high-risk mission critical software applications to include: Designing, developing and implementing detailed test plans, test cases, and test scripts for testing DOC applications
Performing functional system testing, integration testing, regression testing, and database testing for DOC applications
Providing estimates for the testing effort of projects and ongoing maintenance