Automated QA Tester (PART TIME)

Responsibilities:

• Provide one staff resource to perform all required services. It is anticipated that work will be performed on a half time basis, approximately 20 hours a week. The specific work schedule may vary.
• Spend the first weeks working with the Test Team Lead assessing the current testing processes, providing recommendations on how to integrate our processes with automated testing as a part of the overall testing process.
• Provide documented guidance/criteria for determining what functional areas of our systems would be best suited to the use of an automated test tool.
• Identify key functional areas that would benefit from the implementation of a test tool

• Construct and document an automated testing framework using the selected IBM Rational tool
• Implement the system smoke test
• Provide training/full knowledge transfer of all deliverables in order to carry out and continue the work after the contract is done.
• Perform all work on location in St. Paul , Minnesota .
• Record hours worked each day using a timesheet. Timesheet will be submitted to the DHS project manager for approval at the end of each month.

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY - MUST physically live within 50 miles of St. Paul, MN
W2 ONLY (no third parties, 1099s, or corp-to-corps)

Required Skills

The required minimum qualifications are listed below. Required Skills will initially be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. If DHS determines, in its sole discretion, that the Responder fails to meet one or more of these requirements (or that the Responder has not submitted sufficient information to make the pass/fail determination), then the Response will be eliminated from further review.

• Minimum of 3 years of documented experience with the analysis, architectural design and implementation of automated testing tools
• Minimum of 3 years of documented experience with automated testing tools, and minimally, 1 year of which must have been specifically with IBM Functional Tester.
• Minimum of 1 year of documented JAVA programming knowledge as it relates to Scripting in automating testing tools
• High degree of creative, analytic and problem-solving skills, as demonstrated by submission of an example project plan for implementing an automated testing tool (following accepted industry standards for project management). Example project plan must be submitted in order to pass this minimum requirement.

Desired Skills

• Minimum of 1 year of documented experience implementing automated testing on a Mainframe system.

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY
W2 ONLY (no third parties, 1099s, or corp-to-corps)