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What We Offer

We offer generous paid time off, paid sick leave, and 10 paid holidays! We have affordable medical, dental, and vision insurance, and our employees are entitled to coverage by one of several State-sponsored retirement pension plans, our employee assistance program, and wellness incentives. Additionally, our employees have the option of life insurance, disability, a group legal plan, and pet insurance. Under the current guidelines for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program, the Maricopa County Superior Court is a qualifying employer. Therefore, any full time Judicial Branch employee, who meets other eligibility criteria may be eligible for loan forgiveness under this program. Click here to learn more!

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About the Position

The IT Quality Assurance Analyst provides the means and measures for testing all aspects of a software solution, both functionally and technically, to meet the requirements and overall quality of the intended solution. As an IT Quality Assurance Analyst, you will be part of a team responsible for testing our state-of-the-art web-based judicial case management system and developing functional tests, regression tests, integration tests, as well as employing issue resolution tracking. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a dynamic team with a well-established test automation infrastructure and software quality assurance test process throughout the development cycle.

About the Superior Court:

The Superior Court of the Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County is dedicated to providing a safe, fair, and impartial forum for resolving disputes, enhancing access to our services, and providing innovative, evidenced-based practices that improve the safety of our community and ensure the public’s trust and confidence in the Judicial Branch. The Superior Court in Maricopa County, one of the largest, most innovative, and progressive trial courts in the nation, seeks innovative individuals to join our team who will embrace our vision of excellence and the principles inherent in the Rule of Law...every person, every day, every time.  We fulfill these principles through a culture that values fairness, respect, integrity, innovation, and safety.

Position Qualifications

We recognize your time is valuable, so please apply if you meet the following required qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Technology, or a closely related field

OR

Combined education and experience qualifications:

• An equivalent combination of post-secondary education and job-related experience may substitute on a year-for-year basis

Our Preferred Candidate has:

• Three years of experience as a QA Functional Tester

Knowledge, skills, and abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Analyzing new product features and business requirements to develop, maintain and execute in-depth test cases in Azure DevOps

Skill in:

• Defect tracking systems (Azure DevOps) and clearly documenting defects

• Reviewing, analyzing, and evaluating information

• Utilizing test automation to increase test coverage

Ability to:

• Be proactive, prioritize, and work with flexibility while meeting goals and deadlines

• Work efficiently with minimal supervision, highly motivated self-starter

• Work in a highly collaborative team environment

• Create test plans and articulate successful measures for evaluating software in the development phase of a project 

• Problem-solve a variety of situations

• Communicate with both business and technical staff

• Leverage AI tools to generate effective, high‑quality test cases with strong positive and negative coverage, ensuring thorough validation of application functionality and edge cases

Essential Job Tasks

(This is not an all-inclusive list of all job duties that may be required; employees will be required to perform other related duties as assigned.)

• Participates in the development of test plans, test cases, and execution of test scripts to ensure the delivery of quality software and information systems.  

• Identifies and documents errors and inconsistencies in the functionality, usability, and performance of software.  

• Provides software quality assurance support to multiple software development and maintenance projects by creating, executing, and maintaining functional test cases.   

• Executes and analyzes automated test reports, communicates test results, and ensures proper coordination and communications with customers and internal staff to identify and resolve customer problems and concerns associated with supported software applications.

• Translates business and functional requirements into test cases and ensures they meet the business and system requirements, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues as well as maintaining a regression suite of test cases.

• Ensures test coverage accounts for positive and negative scenarios, cross-browser testing, mobile, integration testing, white box and black box testing as well as functional testing for both internal as well as external systems/websites.

• Develops, maintains, and executes project-related test scenarios and validates user stories and bugs using Azure DevOps.

• Conducts post-deployment verification through either automated smoke testing or manual verification.  

• Occasionally responsible for training and second-level production support and QA Analysts.

• Performs additional responsibilities as assigned.

Working conditions: 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee may need to communicate clearly, perceive details of objects that are close by, and maintain various physical positions for extended periods, such as sitting, standing, or walking. The job may involve using hands for tasks such as typing, handling objects, or operating tools, as well as reaching with hands and arms. Occasionally, the employee may be required to move or lift objects weighing up to 20 pounds. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.

Additional Information

Judicial Branch Human Resources reserves the right to move forward candidates based on the information provided directly on the application. The hiring authority will select the successful candidate based on departmental needs. 

Typically, successful candidates are hired at a salary rate up to the midpoint of the range, based on applicable experience, internal equity, and budgetary allowances. 

All Judicial Branch offers of employment and continued employment are contingent upon passing a thorough background and/or fingerprint check. Applicants must completely and fully answer any questions regarding felony and misdemeanor convictions including any convictions that have been expunged or set aside. Failure to include criminal history information is grounds for termination of an offer and employment. A conviction may not automatically disqualify an applicant. 

The Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County participates in the State Retirement systems ASRS or PSPRS. As such, mandatory membership for all full-time employees includes payroll deducted contributions consistent with each retirement system's requirements. The current contribution rate for ASRS is 12.27% and the current contribution rate for PSPRS is 5.84% and up for the defined contribution plan and 8.82% for the defined benefit plan. For more information about contributions and benefits of these plans visit https://www.azasrs.gov/ or https://www.psprs.com/corrections-officer/

Judicial Branch facilities are located throughout Maricopa County.  This position may be reassigned to other locations.  Assignments will be made based upon the needs of the department.

The Judicial Branch in Maricopa County is an EEO/ADA Reasonable Accommodation Employer. 

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