The Quality Assurance Analyst will work full-time with Department
staff to understand the intended business needs and technical
requirements of tasks necessary to ensure deliverables are met
and conform to Department standards. Reviews will occur through
participation in Joint Application Development (JAD) sessions,
design/development/testing meetings, technical documentation
reviews, and testing.
PREFERENCE
Preference will be given to candidate with:
• intimate knowledge of FNW’s business processes.
• intimate knowledge of the Florida Direct Certification
(FDC) Application.
• intimate knowledge of the Florida Automated Nutrition
System (FANS) Application.
• intimate knowledge of the Admin Review Application
(AR)
Note: Contractor personnel with access to the Department’s
network are required to complete the Department’s security
awareness training and obtain CJIS certification. This training must
be completed within fifteen (15) calendar days of the Contractor
personnel’s start date.
SKILLS
To accomplish the work outlined above, FDACS requires an
experienced Quality Assurance Analyst with the following skills
and experience listed below. Technical Skills, written and verbal
communication, and experience will be the basis for evaluation of
responses to the RFQ.
• Bachelor of Science degree in an Information Technology
related field is preferred.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in Quality Assurance
and/or Business Analysis
• Minimum 7 years with Agile Software Development
• Minimum 7 years of experience in manual testing;
validate system functionality by authoring test scenarios
and executing manual checks against business
requirements.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in automation testing;
designing, writing, and executing automation test scripts
to verify system functionality and finding software bugs.
• Minimum 7 years with Azure DevOps and/or Team
Foundation Server (TFS).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in conducting meetings
with individuals and groups of people to discuss business
processes.
• Minimum 7 years of experience with Joint Application
Development (JAD) techniques.
• Minimum 7 years with User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Minimum 7 years of experience in designing,
maintaining, and scaling custom automated testing
frameworks from scratch (e.g., using Page Object Model).
• Minimum 7 years of experience in automation testing;
designing, writing, and executing automation test scripts
using a variety of tools (Selenium or similar) to verify
system functionality and find software bugs.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in generating
automation scripts and updating existing to align with
ongoing UI shifts and new feature deployments.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in REST API and
Microservices testing; executing endpoint validation,
contract checks, and payload verification using Insomnia
or similar API tools.
• Proficiency in testing and validating REST APIs using tools
like Postman, Insomnia, or other API testing tools.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in translating functional
specification into technical specification from which
programmers can construct the solution.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in translating the
information from meetings and written materials into
process models and/or process flow models.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working with various
stakeholders and team members to understand
requirements, understand data needs and resolve issues.
• Minimum 7 years of experience creating technical
documentation.
• Excellent verbal and writing skills and the ability to
develop and present complex material effectively to a
variety of audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and able to establish and
maintain good working relationships with team members,
agency representatives, external representatives, and
vendor staff.
• Able to work independently, to work against a plan, to
meet deadlines, to follow procedures and to produce
deliverables.
• Excellent active listening skills.
• Problem solving and root cause identification skills.
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization.
