QA Automation Engineer Lead

QA Automation Engineer Lead

Location:

505 Hudson Street, Hartford, CT 06106

Duration:
Long Term Project

Candidate must be willing to work on site 20% 505 Hudson Street Hartford, CT

Candidate must be a U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident

The Department of Children and Families depends on the core mission critical Federally reimbursed SACWIS (Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System). The application is used by a large majority of roughly 3,400 employees including over 1,100 front line social workers and case managers, the application has been enhanced and modified continually to meet data capture and process functionality requirements driven by good child welfare case practice as well as State and Federal legislation and statute.

Additionally, SACWIS continues to experience change chiefly in compliance with the 1991 Juan

F. Consent Decree as well as the agency’s ongoing goal of improving the safety, permanency, and well-being of children in care. The agency is also undergoing an effort to replace its SACWIS system with a new CCWIS system working in collaboration with our federal and state partners.

DCF Information Systems provides technology expertise and services as well as an information systems infrastructure to the agency and its roughly 3,400 employees. DCF Information Systems strives to improve continually improving technology services that are cost-effective and of the highest effectiveness and quality. DCF Information Systems is currently in the process of replacing its current SACWIS and engaged in a large three year project to redefine, redesign and modernize its systems and practices.

The agency needs the service of a QA Automation Engineer to work on SACWIS and CCWIS. The candidate will serve in the capacity of a QA Automation Engineer, will follow a well-defined vision of how IT and the business aligns and make sure that everyone is following the same principles, methodologies, and support activities per the direction of agency management. The specific focus of this candidate will be the part of the team that will work on ETL's and data conversion as well to participate in the SDLC process of the new CCWIS system and work with the System Integrator to ensure the transfer of knowledge and ongoing maintenance of the solution.

Specifically, the candidate will be responsible to work alongside our QA Lead to assist with testing the ETL and Data conversions to ensure that conversions requirements are met whilst also ensuring that service qualities (Performance, scalability, extensibility, maintainability, security, interoperability) for now and for the future are achievable.

In addition, the agency requires:

• An experience professional with demonstrating the following knowledge and skills:
• 7+ years’ Experience with Automated Testing Frameworks, Test Strategies and Test Beds.
• 7+ years’ Experience with HP QC, UFT, Stress Stimulus, Azure Dev Ops
• 7+ years’ Experience Microsoft Share Point
• 7+ years’ Experience with Agile Methodologies
• 7+ years’ Experience with Software Testing Methodologies
• Knowledge of Testing Tools, Testing Frameworks, Continuous Integration Methodologies
• Knowledge of Web Application Testing, Distributed System Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Mobile Testing, Security Testing, Accessibility Testing, Web Service Testing.
• Knowledge of Data Modeling and Database Design
• Thorough understanding of standard QA best practices in an Agile environment including authoring test plans and test cases, executing tests and tracking issues to closure
• Experience in Test Driven Development and testing tools and techniques.
• Testing experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, WCF) and tools such as SOAPUI and SOAPSonar.