Short Description:
The Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS) is responsible for the design, pilot, and implementation of the software quality assurance review processes.
QAS to help IT design, pilot, and implement the software quality assurance review process.
Complete Description:
F2F INTERVIEWS ONLY , there are NO exceptions.
Interviews will be held on the 13th of May , 12:30, 1:30, and 2:30.
DPS would like to engage a QAS to help IT design, pilot, and implement the software quality assurance review process. Will help development teams test software quality for production deployment for the Ohio Liquor Law Enforcement (OLLE) rewrite. OLLE is used by the Ohio Investigative Unit as a case management system. Additionally, OLLE is used by the Division of Liquor Control (DOLC), Ohio Attorney General’s (AG) office, and the Liquor Control Commission (LCC) to track both criminal and administrative cases.
The Quality Assurance Specialist (QAS) is responsible for the design, pilot, and implementation of the software quality assurance review processes. The QAS Specialist will work with Application Teams during pre and post assessment periods. The QAS Specialist reports to the Quality Assurance Team Lead. For each phase end review the Quality Assurance Specialist is responsible to plan, schedule, execute, and document findings of the review. Quality Assurance Specialists must have a detailed understanding of processes which support the software development lifecycle. The Quality Assurance Lead is responsible for communicating with the State regarding the progress of the quality approach and a summary of the metrics, as well as managing the Quality Assurance Specialists.
Years of Relevant Experience:
7 years software development, testing and project management
Preferred Education:
4 year college degree or equivalent technical study.
Role Description:
All roles specified plus the following:
•Review project’s required work products to ensure compliance with approved tailored procedures and standards.
•Review and check project’s software development activities and the associated internal tasks required as employed by the project and specified in the project plan.
•Compare actual project procedures to the specified standards, procedures, and, if required, specific 3rd party contractual requirements.
•Perform detailed reviews of interim and final tasks as appropriate.
•Ensure process improvement opportunities are reviewed by appropriate contact to identify training needs of the organization.
•Perform or manage the required software quality phase end reviews of work product and process for each software project and produce the required software quality reports, as specified in the project's software quality plan.
•Develop, and manage short and long-term plans and schedules for organization wide software quality needs.
•Balance workload with team’s capacity by managing the team’s activities according to schedule and budgets.
•Coordinate and procure the required skills and techniques required.
•Obtain feedback from project teams regarding the overall effectiveness of processes and procedures – Forward to appropriate stakeholders and process owners.
•Provide feedback to project teams regarding process/procedure improvement opportunities and other potential areas for improvement discovered during software quality activities.
•Report all software quality-revealed non-compliance.
•Provide regular reports on the results of compliance reviews to the project team, project team leaders and management. Report on progress on action item resolution and possible risk areas.
•Anticipate and resolve issues dealing with software quality.
•Develop options and recommendations to assist teams in resolving issues.
•Ensure action items are addressed and closed based on agreed dates and activities.
•Ensure that defined processes are followed.
•Communicate related improvement measures to the project team.
•Obtain feedback from project teams regarding the overall effectiveness of software quality processes followed. Review with team and develop continuous improvement action plans. Report status to executive team.
•Communicate and work with customers and other personnel as necessary.
•Communicate clearly the team goals, organizational philosophies, and policies and procedures to the team.
•Communicate to team members the relationship between their work assignments and the team and project objectives.
•Lead efforts in developing and facilitating implementation of team goals and metrics.
During the interview process with the ODPS staff, the resource consultant must demonstrate competence/experience in their specific area(s) of project assignment. The resource’s experience must also be documented for review and verification. Offered resources not showing technical or functional competence/experience will be sufficient reason to reject the Offeror’s proposal. It is the responsibility of the Offeror to pre-screen their candidates to ensure compliance
Skills:
Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Experience establishing formal QA processes for large enterprise software lifecycle projects
Required
7
Years
Experience defining quality goals and objectives for large enterprise software lifecycle projects
Required
7
Years
Experience developing, executing test cases, scripts, plans and procedures both manual and automated
Required
7
Years
Experience writing test strategies, test scenarios, test plans, and test scripts
Required
7
Years
Experience testing updates, patches, repairs in the development , test and QA environments
Required
7
Years
Experience in Quality Assurance in a technical capacity with a large organization as ODPS
Required
7
Years
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments; minimum one year
Required
1
Years
Experience working with Microsoft Test Manager on at least one project
Required
3
Years
Experience working with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) minimum 1 year
Required
1
Years
Experience with developing automated testing
Highly desired
3
Years
Experience with recorded testing
Highly desired
2
Years
Experience with test driven development
Highly desired
2
Years
Strong communication and interpersonal skills
Required