Quality Assurance Engineer

Title

Quality Assurance Engineer

CO Judicial

SB26-1249-QE1-2027

Hybrid, Denver, CO. Candidate must be local.

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree.
• 13 years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience.
• 13 years of experience as a Business Analyst or Software Engineer in the Colorado Judicial Department.

• The QA Analyst’s role is to develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures for the Division of Information Technology Services (ITS).
• Work within ITS project teams to ensure quality testing of all in-house or commercial‑of‑the‑shelf (COTS) products.
• Apply end‑to‑end testing practices, including writing test cases and scenarios that ensure the delivery of quality software.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide advanced Tier III support to customers.
• 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.

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and three years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience; or three years of experience as a Business Analyst or Software Engineer in the Colorado Judicial Department.