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Serving People. Serving Colorado.

The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.

We believe equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. We know it's important to support each other, and that means having a healthy balance of work and personal time, and benefits that allow us all to have fulfilling lives.

Watch this two-minute video to learn about how OIT's mission, vision, and values inspire us to provide solutions that power the services Coloradans rely on every day.

Description of Job

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  Identify and document test data requirements.
• Create and maintain requirements traceability matrices.
• Coordinate with Project Managers and Business Analysts throughout the testing process to ensure correct test and defect status is relayed.
• Assist the team with the creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and test scenarios.
• Know and understand what types of automation are useful for different stages of development.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis.

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or
education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

Minimum Qualifications:

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  1 year of relevant experience with functional system test cases, data, or test suites, standard defect management tools and processes, application development, or regular client-side use of relevant applications with demonstrated understanding of program functionality.

Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

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  Ability to assist the team with the creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and test scenarios.
• Experience applying software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Experience converting manual regression tests to automated tests using tools such as Selenium, Katalon, UFT or other automated testing tools.
• Experience utilizing MS Azure DevOps.
• Experience with API testing methods and tools such as Postman and Soap-UI.
• Experience as a member of an Agile software development team.
• Ability to clearly communicate ideas and work collaboratively with a scrum team.

OIT candidates and employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.

Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position.

Supplemental Information