Test Engineer II - QA ,COTS , ITSM

Job Title: Test Engineer II

Location: 1300 Broadway, Suite 1100 Denver, Colorado 80203

Description: Please note we are unable to provide H1B visa sponsorship

Responsibilities include developing and executing software tests and documenting results to ensure software runs smoothly and effectively. Tasks may involve troubleshooting issues, debugging software, and documenting outcomes. The Test Engineer’s role is to establish quality assurance standards and measures for the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS), ensuring quality testing of all in‑house or commercial‑of‑the‑shelf (COTS) products. The Engineer will write test cases and scenarios for end‑to‑end testing, determine usage of or create automated testing structures, and apply testing practices across projects.

• Requires a bachelor’s degree and at least four years of equivalent experience in a related area.

• 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 system 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.
• Create test plans by translating the business and functional requirements into test cases.
• Execute test cases to ensure internally developed products, COTS solutions, or systems meet the approved requirements.
• Perform or assist 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.
• Make recommendations on test cases that are candidates for automation.
• Use 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.
• Be responsible for defect reporting and provide input to the Manager of Data Analysis/QA regarding release decisions.
• Advise 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.
• Work 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.
• Contribute to ITS’ IT Service Management (ITSM) system by documenting and sharing knowledge with others to improve customer service across the Department.
• Attend meetings and training as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.