DSHS FTAA IT Quality Assurance - Journey
About The Position
The IT Quality Assurance Specialist will test financial application changes supporting Washington’s One Washington and Workday transition. The role focuses on identifying how application changes may fail and preventing errors that could disrupt financial transactions, reporting, and agency operations. The specialist works with developers and business analysts to translate requirements into test scenarios, examine results, document defects, and help determine when solutions are ready as requirements evolve in an Agile environment. During the first 90 days, the employee will learn the applications, business requirements, and testing tools; begin developing test cases and investigating results; and work with developers to resolve defects. Within the first year, success means application changes are thoroughly tested, requirements are met, and risks are identified before production. This is a one-year project position, with a possible extension dependent on additional funding. The schedule is Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. During the first three months, the employee must work at Office Building 2 at least two days each week. No additional travel is expected.
Requirements
- Meet one of the following education and experience pathways: a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field and four years of IT experience involving software testing; an associate degree in information technology or a related field and six years of IT experience involving software testing; or eight years of IT experience performing functional software testing.
- Have at least three years of hands-on testing experience with mid- to large-scale enterprise applications across the software testing life cycle, including test planning, design, data preparation, execution, defect tracking, regression testing, analysis, and reporting.
- Qualifying experience may substitute year-for-year for education.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with TFS or Azure DevOps for test and defect management.
- Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and software development practices.
- Ability to query SQL databases and validate data.
- Familiarity with Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, or Microsoft Test Manager.
- Working knowledge of C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, or similar languages.
- Ability to explain findings to technical and business teams.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute testing for financial applications.
- Review requirements and develop test plans, test cases, and test data.
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and interface testing.
- Validate financial data and application results.
- Document, track, and retest defects.
- Clarify requirements and resolve issues with developers and analysts.
- Support user acceptance testing and production-readiness reviews.
- Test changes related to One Washington and Workday.
- Report testing results, risks, and recommendations.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
