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Software Tester (.NET Applications)
Duties/Responsibilities

• Designs and performs system analysis, recommends application solutions, tests and corrects programs and assists IT staff with documentation;
• Assists in supporting user acceptance testing;
• Performs software implementation tasks, including source control and deployment activities;
• Assists with development, implementation and monitoring IT quality assurance standards and testing;

• Assists in the development and documentation of appropriate standards and criteria for acceptable programming and systems development lifecycle activities;
• Develops software testing and automation procedures and performs analysis and design;
• Reads, writes, extracts and/or reports from compounded files;
• Works with business personnel to identify and document system software requirements;
• Defines problems and develops potential solutions;
• Performs post-production support for business applications which may include routine maintenance, enhancements and the need to perform research to aid in troubleshooting software production errors;
• Assists IT staff in identifying alternate courses of action, the review and evaluation of software development methodologies and completing software security scans and reporting on vulnerabilities;
• Assist IT staff in performance testing and benchmarking of software application response times, analysis and reporting on performance measures.
• Communicates with peers and others. Collaborates proactively.
• Guides performance of software development tasks per verbal instructions;
• Answers questions on technical topics to assist other technical staff in software development;
• Obtains or imparts information from/to other technical staff and business personnel through discussion(s) involving database, infrastructure and/or application information;

• Leads discussion(s) or formal meetings with technical and/or nontechnical personnel on simple to moderate technical topics in support of software development;
• Summarizes, in writing, information on one or more related topics involving database, infrastructure and/or application information in support of software development;
• Conveys, in writing, recommendations or conclusions to another for decision making purposes in support of software development.
• Gathers, interprets and applies information from a variety of sources to aid in software development duties, activities and events;
• Answers questions and presents informal mentorship opportunities to peers and/or lower-level staff via conversation, observation or technical documentation.
• Understanding and experience in the use of Azure Dev Ops for documentation and iterative development collaboration, task management and other functions related to system testing and reporting.
• Basic understanding of Agile, Iterative and Traditional Software development (SDLC) practices, standards as it relates to testing activities.

General Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Computer and electronics
• Oral and written communication tools and techniques
• Customer support and personal service
• State and agency policy, procedures, and applicable laws
• vision, mission, and goals of agency
• software development principles and methods for design, development, testing, and implementation of new or modified software
• commonly used query language
• mathematic principles related to assigned area in IT
• Electronic Data Processing (e.g., C# .Net, VB .Net, JMeter, JavaScript, HTML, Visual Studio., Oracle database, MS-SQL databases, Microsoft Azure Cloud based technologies, Salesforce, Azure DevOps, JAMS stored procedures, triggers, web development)
• Reading comprehension
• Speaking
• Service orientation
• Troubleshooting
• Stay abreast of current technologies in area of IT assigned
• Deal with problems involving several variables in familiar context
• Understand practical field of study(e.g., computer science)
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts & draw valid conclusions
• Deal with many variables & determine specific action
• Understand manuals & verbal instructions, technical in nature
• Gather, collate & classify information about data, people or things
• Cooperate with co-workers on group projects
• Establish friendly atmosphere as supervisor of work unit

Job duty, knowledge, skill, and ability statements at a lower level are understood to be able to be performed at any higher level.
Qualifications

• 3+years of experience as a Software Tester specifically for .NET and Cloud-Native Applications
• Demonstrated ability and experience independently developing testing strategy, test

plans, test cases and proper system testing documentation for a new .NET application.
Requirements

• Experience as a Software Tester specifically for .NET and Cloud-Native Applications - Required 3 Years
• Demonstrated ability and experience independently developing .net testing strategy, test plans, test cases and proper system testing documentation - Required
• Basic understanding of Agile, Iterative and Traditional Software development (SDLC) practices, standards as it relates to testing activities. - Required
• Understanding and experience in the use of Azure Dev Ops for documentation and iterative development collaboration, task management and other function - Required