Job Description
The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Department of Public Safety, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is seeking two full-time Quality Assurance Analysts to work in the Minnesota Justice Information Services (MNJIS) section of the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA).
At a high level, the resources will work with a team to deliver quality software products developed by MNJIS Focus teams, work on multiple initiatives including the DWI Dashboard, Search Warrant, and Criminal History, actively participate in the Agile events implemented by the development team and collaborate with team members.
Tasks: - Participate in formal review of business/functional requirements and application design
- Prepare a Test Plan
- Determine the types of testing that will be implemented
- Design and document test cases
- Identify and communicate test requirements
- Identify and prepare test data
- Execute test cases
- Analyze, report, help troubleshoot and resolve test failures
- Report overall test status and results
- Report and log defects found as a result of the test execution
- Perform other testing tasks as may be required by the project
- Provide knowledge transfer
Minimum Qualifications: - Five (5) years of Quality Assurance work creating and executing manual and automated test cases/test scripts from scratch.
Desired Skills: - Experience with Software development lifecycle methodologies including agile and the Scrum framework.
- Experience with automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, and SoapUI and proficiency with source control and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools
- Experience in collaborative teamwork, establishing/maintaining working relationships with business customers and technology staff, while concurrently providing technical leadership in planning, designing, executing tests, mentoring, and developing procedures for product quality on complex projects utilizing industry-standard software development methodologies.
- Experience in multiple programming languages, software development technologies, and diverse database platforms, with hands-on experience in working with web-based forms, web-based content, interactive solutions, and conducting testing on web-based applications, web services (SOAP/REST), and database systems.
- Extensive experience in utilizing DevOps tools such as, Jira/Xray, Selenium, GitLab, and Octopus Deploy for streamlined software development, continuous integration, and deployment processes.
- Experience with security, accessibility, performance, and stress testing.
- Ability to communicate clearly, present complex information to users in a comprehensive style, translate technical, and system information for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with Law Enforcement or Criminal Justice Systems.
- Experience as a member of an Agile Scrum development team.
Interview Process: - The State will conduct interviews. Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams.
- The State reserves the right to remove a resource from consideration if the resource is unavailable for interview as requested by the State.
Remote or on-site: - The work is expected to follow BCA's hybrid approach, currently requiring a minimum of 2 days in the office. This is subject to change. The on-site work location is at 1430 Maryland Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55106.
Job Tags
Full time, Work at office