Test Engineer Denver, CO ; Hybrid

Job Title

Test Engineer

Denver, CO 80203 (Hybrid)

1 Year Contract

• Responsibilities include developing and executing software tests and documenting results in order to ensure software runs smoothly and effectively.
• May involve troubleshooting issues and debugging software. May require a bachelor's degree and at least 4 years or equivalent experience in a related area.
• Familiarity with QA standard concepts, practices, and technologies in the field.
• The Test Engineer’s role is to develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures for the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS).
• Working within ITS project teams, the Test Engineer will ensure quality testing of all in‑house or commercial‑of‑the‑shelf (COTS) products.
• The Test Engineer will apply end‑to‑end testing practices including writing test cases and scenarios that ensure the delivery of quality software.
• They will also determine usage of and potentially create automated testing structures.

• Contribute to quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product life cycles.
• Ensure testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end‑user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Analyze documentation of any new application under development or consideration to determine its intended functionality and technical architecture.
• Creates test plans by translating the business and functional requirements into test cases.
• Executes test cases to ensure internally developed products, COTS solutions, or systems meet the approved requirements.
• Performs or assists in the testing and installation of both in‑house and commercial off‑the‑shelf (COTS) products and applications into environments as required.
• Collaborate with software and systems personnel in application testing, such as system, regression and load testing.
• Makes recommendations on test cases that are candidates for automation.
• Uses appropriate testing tools to automate integration and user interface tests.
• Analyze formal test results to discover and resolve defects, bugs, errors, deployment/configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Make recommendations for improvement of applications and/or systems to the Customer Engagement team.
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing applications and systems and develop testing strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Responsible for defect reporting and provides input to the Manager of Data Analysis/QA regarding release decisions.
• Advises in the evaluation and solution of highly technical and complex testing functions and features, problems and bugs.
• May peer review testing efforts of other QA analysts to provide feedback and mentoring.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Works with software engineers to ensure QA standards are adhered to, including unit testing that promotes quality coding standards.
• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.
• Contributes to ITS’ IT Service Management (ITSM) system by documenting and sharing knowledge with others to improve customer service across the Department.
• Attends meetings and training as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.