Software Tester

Remote and/or Onsite Position HQ Lacey, WA

Employment Type:     Full Time/Non-Exempt

Experience:                Entry to Intermediate Level

Salary Range:             $27.00 -$29.00 per hour

Industry:                     Software, Information Technology, and Services

Employees are covered by medical, dental, vision and AD&D insurance.  Alliance offers a 401K plan in addition to 11 paid holidays and paid time off (PTO), which accrues bi-weekly (12 days total).  Employees may also receive discretionary bonuses throughout the year.

Join our innovative department dedicated to designing, implementing, and testing features for our Vocational Rehabilitation case management software. Our application helps people with disabilities connect to services and meaningful employment. This software is used Nationawide, and your work will directly and significantly impact the lives of others. 

As part of a cross-functional scrum team you will work closely with Business Analysts, Software Developers, and Software Testers to test new features, update functionality, and corrections.  You'll find opportunities to participate in multiple phases of the Software Development Lifecycle, learn new skills and technologies, and contribute to department goals and objectives.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Create and modify simple to moderately complex test plans.
• Work with cross-team staff to ensure that requirements are well understood.
• Reviews design specifications to understand the scope, requirements, and function of the software product with the team members.
• Identify appropriate parameters, functions, and data to test and validate parameters may include general function, validity of results, accuracy, reliability, and compliance with industry standards.
•  Conduct testing to ensure products perform according to user requirements and within established guidelines.
• Identify, log, and recreate error codes, bugs, and defects.
• Report defects to programmers when a product does not perform within specifications.

Required Skills and Abilities

• 3+ years of experience testing web applications in a business environment.  Quality Assurance testing methodologies and writing test plans.
• Excellent communication, writing, and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Curious, inquisitive, and detail oriented.
• Willingness to learn and take on new challenges; self-directed, and highly motivated.
• Solid experience with Microsoft Office.

Preferred Education and Experience

• Experience in automation testing.
• Understanding of Transact SQL, SQL Server, .NET Framework, HTML and XML.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Azure DevOps.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience.

Physical Demands

• Primarily a stationary position.  May have occasional opportunities to move about within an office environment.
• Operation of a computer and typical office machinery.
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at a time.

Alliance Enterprises, Inc, founded in 1981, has a history of providing innovative technology-based solutions. Alliance specializes in developing applications that support vocational rehabilitation agencies in assisting people with disabilities to obtain long term employment.

At Alliance, we invest in people, meaning we push our employees to increase their business savvy, technical knowledge, and industry perspective. Our employees are trustworthy and care about each other and our customers; we work together to support the vocational rehabilitation industry.

To learn more about Alliance’s culture and careers please visit us at www.allianceenterprises.com/culture-and-careers/

Alliance Enterprises is an Equal Opportunity Employer