QA Automated Engineer

Allied Consultants, Inc.•Austin, TX

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies. We are currently seeking an experience QA Automated Engineer to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team. At Allied Consultants, we value our consultants and are committed to providing an exceptional experience including: Highly competitive pay rates Local support staff for responsive, personal service Candidates selected for interviews will be subject to a criminal background check and may be required to pass a drug screening, in compliance with federal and state regulations. All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of these checks. Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. QA automation engineers design automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically. This includes determining the priority for test scenarios and creating execution plans to implement these scenarios. Designing documentation for automated processes. This QA Engineer Automated 3 contractor position performs Quality Assurance activities for an application for the (PCS) Contract Operations team. This application is part of an initiative to enhance and update the System Contract Operating and Reporting application to create a more robust and comprehensive system for agency contract management, monitoring, and compliance activities. This position is part of the Administrative Applications Software Quality Assurance team and is responsible for developing and maintaining automated test cases using Playwright or similar technology, and for developing and maintaining test scripts for both manual and automated testing. Perform manual testing as required. Track test case execution. Establish regular automated schedules for test cases and required reporting. Use Jira to log and track defects. Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices. Must have experience working in an Agile environment. Support the development team as needed in dev, test, UAT, and production, and troubleshoot test cases as required. Lead UAT testing activities as needed. Available for on-call support as needed.

Requirements

10 Years Experience in manual test script execution
8 Years Experience in automated QA testing
8 Years Experience in QA test script creation
8 Years Experience in performance testing

Nice To Haves

5 Years Experience in QA Automated Test Case Reporting
5 Years JavaScript, HTML Experience, Playwright, WebdriverIO, JMeter
3 Years Experience in Agile, Scrum, Jira, XRay, or Zephyr
3 Years Experience in accessibility testing

Responsibilities

design automated tests by creating scripts that run testing functions automatically
determining the priority for test scenarios and creating execution plans to implement these scenarios
Designing documentation for automated processes
developing and maintaining automated test cases using Playwright or similar technology
developing and maintaining test scripts for both manual and automated testing
Perform manual testing as required
Track test case execution
Establish regular automated schedules for test cases and required reporting
Use Jira to log and track defects
Develop and maintain requirements traceability matrices
Support the development team as needed in dev, test, UAT, and production, and troubleshoot test cases as required
Lead UAT testing activities as needed
Available for on-call support as needed