We are looking for a Full-time contractor or employee for a Software QA Tester role.The Software Quality Assurance Tester performs advanced analysis and application testing work involving the daily operations and activities of testing teams within the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) section of IT-SEDS (Information Technology Statewide Education Data System This position will work with the Texas Student Data System (TSDS) Testing team to provide the following Software Testing Services: 1) Analyze user requirements, design documents and other documentation to develop test plan and detailed test cases. 2) Create and execute automated functional and regression test cases, report and document all issues, test cases ran, test results, and testing summaries in detail 3) Perform automation/manual testing and data validation 4) Perform advanced SQL queries to analyze and manipulate data 5) Work with development team and customers to clearly understand the functionality under test to help determine test cases and clearly communicate issues found 5) Review user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate applications or to improve existing systems. 6) Collaborate with the project team for sprint/release work on tasks such as providing testing effort estimates, resolving defects or issues and providing status on work assignments or issues. The Texas Student Data System (TSDS) modernizes and improves the quality of data collection, management, and reporting in Texas education.Skills(Required): Testing complex Web Applications Testing all phases of Software Development LIfe Cycle Database/SQL Language XML, JSON, API Testing Test automation experience using open source technologies and/or in-house frameworks Experience with test frameworks like Junit, TestNG Skills(Preferred): WAPT Pro or other performance testing tools Previous experience with Jira preferred Previous experience with Zypher Scale preferred Previous experience with Texas Student Data System (TSDS) preferred