Provide a short description of the Position:
The position supports the UI Job Assist Tool (JAT), a initiative to develop and integrate secure APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) services between the core UI system of record and an AI-enabled Job Assist Tool. The Senior Tester will perform functional, integration, API, microservice, AI-tool, and MCP validation to ensure reliable and secure read/write data exchange.
Provide a list of the day-to-day tasks to be performed by the Selected Candidate:
- Develop and execute functional and integration test scenarios for the AI-enabled UI Job Assist Tool.
- Test read/write REST APIs and Java microservices used to exchange data between the core UI system and the Job Assist Tool.
- Perform Model Context Protocol (MCP) validation, including server/client interactions, tool invocation, request/response handling, and error conditions.
- Validate business rules and data-integrity controls designed to prevent corrupt or unapproved AI-generated data from being written back to the UI system.
- Execute positive, negative, boundary, regression, and end-to-end tests across APIs, microservices, MCP components, and AI integrations.
- Create and maintain test cases, test data, traceability, defect documentation, and test execution results.
- Use API testing tools to validate REST endpoints, payloads, schemas, authentication, error handling, and response behavior.
- Query backend data stores as needed to confirm accurate processing and persistence of data.
- Collaborate with Programmers, Data Architects, Cloud Engineers, vendor technical teams, and business SMEs to investigate defects and clarify expected behavior.
- Support performance and scalability testing for workloads associated with approximately 1,500 concurrent users and document-heavy processing.
- Validate security-sensitive integration behavior in a regulated UI environment and support knowledge transfer to State staff.
Position Mandatory Qualification (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.4)
Position Job Title: Tester
Conducts automated and manual tests to ensure that the software created/upgraded performs as necessary and meets the user requirements. Develops and maintains user and technical documentation and project process documentation for application teams. Understands the view of applications and/or technology and is able to put procedures in a logical sequence.
Position Skill Level: Senior
60 - 84 months: Candidate is able to work independently, without assistance and provides guidance to others. May have an advanced education.
Position Requested Qualifications (Per Attachment 7, Section 1.2.5)
- 60 months of experience performing functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of enterprise web applications and distributed systems.
- 36 months of experience testing REST APIs and microservices, including request/response payloads, schemas, authentication, error handling, and backend data validation.
- 36 months of experience testing Java-based enterprise applications or services and using SQL to validate backend processing and data integrity.
- 12 months experience testing or validating AI-enabled applications or integrations, including functional validation of AI outputs and data exchanged with systems of record.
- 12 months experience validating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, clients, tools, or integrations, including expected and error-path behavior.
- 24 months experience using API/service testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, or comparable tools.
- 24 months experience creating test plans, test cases, traceability, defect documentation, and test execution summaries in an Agile delivery environment.
Additional Information Requests:
- Resource must sign a confidentiality agreement in the event of any exposure to private and/or sensitive information.
- All NYS OER Mandated Training and UI Confidentiality Training.
- Resource will train/mentor State Staff in specialized skills.
Work schedule: 7:00 6:00 M-F (Starting time is negotiable) 8 1/2 hr. days including 1/2 hr. unpaid lunch
Telecommuting: Yes (50%)
Interview format: Webcasting (camera required)
Typical software: Java, REST APIs, SQL, Postman/SoapUI, JMeter, GitHub/GitLab, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Client-ALM
Typical hardware: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Windows, Linux