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We are NIC Nebraska, A well-established, Lincoln-based tech company and wholly owned subsidiary of Tyler Technologies. We are a talented team of developers, product owners, and support desk who manage the award-winning Nebraska.gov state website and build web applications for NE state and local government. Nearly every Nebraskan uses our online solutions and services to interact with the state, and we take tremendous pride in simplifying Nebraska government interactions. We are currently looking for a talented and driven Quality Assurance Analyst to join our Agile team.
The Quality Assurance Analyst is responsible for assembling and executing test plans for web-based applications and any associated software services. Testing will focus on custom developed application changes, web-based compliance, development of mobile application changes, infrastructure changes, maintenance windows, and any other quality assurance activities required at NIC Nebraska. Application changes could be enhancements, defects, production validation, or re-factoring tasks within a release. At times, the Quality Assurance Analyst will be tasked with requirements gathering and other tasks to support the system development lifecycle.The Quality Assurance Analyst should possess the ability to diagnose and solve problems, working with a portfolio of applications. Our ideal candidate will have a background in software quality assurance or project management and be familiar with web-based/mobile or multi-platform testing. The selected candidate needs to be able to engage, communicate and cooperate with Product Owners, Developers, Support Desk, and Customers.We are looking for a candidate to help us continue to develop our QA department and has the resourcefulness to proactively contribute and enhance the tools and methods used today. This is an exceptional opportunity, in a highly desirable environment, where you will gain invaluable experience and the opportunity to make an impact, share knowledge and flourish. If you have experience in software quality analysis, testing and evaluating online software applications, then you are a prime candidate. We value assertive and driven people who enjoy working collaboratively and making an impact on our solutions.Take note…- This is not a boring 8-5 job. We take pride in maintaining a lively and flexible atmosphere.
- Incredible perks and benefits, see below
- We encourage learning at every available opportunity.
- This is your playground, find what works best for you
- We are open to your ideas and cannot wait for you to share them
- Minimum of 2-3 years in a quality analyst position, project management or experience focused around QA
- Good communication skills – you need to be able to engage and articulate within your role, with other roles, as well as, hierarchical.
- Working knowledge of Internet technology
- Self-motivated and driven possessing strong analytical, organizational, and multitasking abilities
- Prefer Agile or Kanban experience
- Gather testing requirements by participating in interviews, document analysis, business process observation, use cases, industry research as well as task and workflow analysis
- Critically evaluate information, reconcile conflicts, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
- Competently conduct functional tests on changes introduced along with documenting and sharing the results for developmental revisions, project record keeping, and software audits
- Support Business Users during User Acceptance testing to assure their full understanding of the changes and effective methods to verify acceptable functionality
- Design and execute test plans on online applications
- Record and document results and compare to expected results
- Detect application failures so that defects may be discovered and corrected
- Generate historical analysis of test results
- Document anomalies and issues
- Maintain database of software defects
- Verify specific action or function of code
- Provide application instructions for users
- Develop and document application test plans based on software requirements and technical specifications
- Create meaningful error handling procedures for application code
- Perform application security audits
- Participate in application planning meetings
- Ensure data integrity standards
- Conduct black box testing
- Examine code and execution of code in various environments
- Ensure compliance with general programming best practices, accepted web standards and those standards set forth by upstream sources
- Implement application designs, create queries, scripts, web pages and other deliverables
- Experience with writing automated tests
- Ability to multi-task several projects with deadlines
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to prioritize and work independently
- Must possess great interpersonal and group communication skills
- Amazing team player
- Interested in improving process and change
- Competitive Health / Dental / Vision insurance
- Competitive compensation
- Vacation and personal time
- Employee Stock purchase plan
- Matching 401(k) contributions with 100% vesting
- Disability insurance
- Life insurance
- Company wellness program that keeps us in shape
- Business casual atmosphere with jeans! Shorts in the summer.
- Paid State holidays in addition to vacation
- Tuition reimbursement – your success is our mission!
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