Comptroller - Software Automation Engineer
Job description
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About the Comptroller's Office
Innovation, collaboration, and a commitment to excellence best describes the culture here at the Comptroller's Office. We take pride in the work we do serving as Texas' accountant, tax collector, treasurer, and much more!
Culture
Our agency workforce is as diverse as the people of Texas we serve. We value our employees and take very seriously our collective commitment to public service. Personal development opportunities are strongly encouraged through available workshops, teambuilding exercises, and on the job training. We offer flexible scheduling that helps employees maintain a healthy work-life balance.
If you are seeking to gain knowledge, build your career, and network among goal-oriented professionals, this is the place for you!
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General description
We are looking for an experienced Software Automation Engineer to join our Quality Engineering Team in the Information Technology, Application Services division. As an Automation Engineer, you will be responsible for writing our test plans, test cases and automating manual test scripts, and testing our applications. This position is with a team of people who are open-minded, adaptable, creative, strong analytical and communication skills and dedicated to ensuring all our applications are defect free. You will be a good fit for the role if you are self- motivated, resourceful and can work well with a team.
Work Hours
Work hours are 8:00AM to 5:00PM, 40-hour week, Monday – Friday. Occasionally work overtime and/or additional hours. Hours may change based on business need. Application support activities periodically require on-call responsibilities or work during non-standard hours.
Teleworking may be considered if certain working conditions are met. The candidate must have permanent residency within the state of Texas and must be able to meet in office requirements, which can vary among different sections (i.e., report to office 1-3 days/month, 1-3 days/week, etc.). Travel reimbursements are not provided for teleworking.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree.
- 4 years of using automation/manual software testing tools, test planning, test scenario creation and cataloging, test documentation, and executing tests.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer or Management Information Financial Systems.
- At least four (4) years of experience as an automation/manual software quality assurance tester in testing complex web applications.
- Experience in the public sector
- Experience working in agile development environments.
- Experience preforming QA functions in medium to large applications development projects and initiatives
- Preferred experience with the following:
o Xray
o Any Programming language
o Confluence
o Selenium, Katalon or UFT or other functional automation tool
o Any other test management tool
Substitutions
1 additional year of the full-time minimum experience as stated above may substitute for each year (30 semester hours) of the required education with a maximum of 120 semester hours (4 years).
- Develops Manual and Test Scripts for Automation.
- Creates and execute regression test scripts.
- Performs through testing of the applications to ensure all requirements are made.
- Reviews and analyzes business requirements, epics, user stories and other requests to plan and document the appropriate tests for required and proposed changes to integrated system applications, databases and environments.
- Performs API and Database Testing.
- Reports and manages test defects using Jira and Xray or any of the other tools mentioned
- Coordinates testing activities with various teams
- Creates test documentation using the appropriate test management tools such as Xray, Jira, Confluence
- Supports multiple Scrum delivery teams with estimation, for testing software applications.
- Documents test strategy and creates detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts and quality test data to ensure all software developed meet the defined requirements prior to the production release
- Communicates regularly with the Project manager, technical lead, dev team members, customers and manager about testing tasks and results to understand project needs and define corrective action as needed
- Performs other related work as assigned.
Veterans:
To receive veteran's preference a copy of your DD214 (Member 4) is required.
Veterans, Reservist or Guardsmen with an MOS or additional duties that fall within the essential duties of the job position or other related fields pertaining to the minimum experience requirements may meet the minimum qualifications. All active duty, reservists, guardsmen, and veterans are encouraged to apply if they meet the qualifications for this position. Please call Human Resources, CPA Veterans Liaison at 512-475-3560/800-531-5441 for more information or assistance.
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Important Notes to the Candidate:
- Salary is contingent upon qualifications and is subject to salary administration and budgetary restrictions.
- CPA employees in the same job classification, if selected, will be laterally transferred with no increase in salary. (An example might be an Accounts Examiner III in Revenue Administration who moves to an Accounts Examiner III in the Enforcement division.)
If you are scheduled for an interview and require any reasonable accommodation in our interview process, please inform the hiring representative who calls you to schedule your interview. Whenever possible, please give the hiring representative sufficient time to consider and respond to your request.
Applications submitted through Work In Texas:
Work In Texas (WIT) applicants must complete the supplemental questions to be considered for the posting. To complete the supplemental questions please go to CAPPS Recruit to register or login and access your profile.
The Comptroller's Office is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity.
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