Role: Quality assurance
Project Title: Quality assurance leadership and testing support services for ongoing application initiatives
Location: Remote (Local to Minnesota preferred)
Duration: 12 months
Job Description:
Business Need
This role is needed to provide experienced quality assurance leadership and hands-on testing support for multiple applications where QA maturity varies, and
formal processes are still being established. The candidate will help ensure consistent, reliable testing practices while reducing risk to delivery timelines and production releases.
The position addresses a critical need to reduce risk to delivery timelines and production releases by strengthening testing consistency, improving defect identification, and ensuring reliable validation of application functionality. The role will support overall application stability and help standardize QA practices across active initiatives. The selected candidate(s) will be required to sign a confidentiality, participation, and assignment of rights agreement in a form acceptable to the State.
The candidate will be responsible for delivering both hands-on testing outputs and foundational QA artifacts that support consistent and reliable validation of application functionality. Deliverables include, but not limited to:
- Executed exploratory and functional testing across application features and workflows
- Develop, maintained, and executed test cases
- Test plans and master test plans that support structured testing efforts
- Documented defects with clear and reproducible steps for resolution
- Identify risk areas and provide recommendations for test coverage and prioritization
- Contributions to QA documentation standards and repeatable testing processes
Automation contributions may occur where appropriate but not the primary delivery.
Milestones and Schedule
Initial Assessment Period: First 30-45 days to assess current QA practices, application risk areas, and documentation gaps
Ongoing Deliverables: Continuous testing support aligned with sprint and release schedules
Resume must clearly demonstrate the following:
Required Qualifications
8+ years of experience in software quality assurance or related field
Proven experience performing hands-on quality assurance testing in software applications
Strong understanding of QA methodologies, SDLC, and Agile testing practices
Experience creating test cases, executing tests, and performing exploratory testing
Ability to develop or contribute to test plans and testing documentation
Demonstrated ability to identify risk areas and adjust testing depth accordingly
Strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to provide guidance Comfortable working in environments without fully established QA processes
Ability to work independently and take ownership of testing Efforts
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with test automation tools or frameworks
Familiarity with accessibility testing principles (WCAG)
Experience working on enterprise or government systems
Experience contributing to or improving QA processes and standards
Exposure to CI/CD pipelines or automated test execution
Thanks & Regards
Kundan Mishra
Sr. Technical Recruiter
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