Software Test Analyst - Lead Testing Analyst

Job Title: Software Test Analyst 5 - Lead Testing Analyst

Location: Lansing, MI (Hybrid – 2 days onsite per week)

Address: 235 S Grand Ave, Lansing, MI 48933, UNITED STATES

Projected Start Date: March 2, 2026

Projected End Date: 1 year from projected start date

Hourly Rate: $40 USD per hour

Position Overview:

The State of Michigan is seeking a highly experienced Lead Testing Analyst (Software Test Analyst
5) to support Agency Services for the Vital Records division within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) and other Public Health areas under the Department of Technology, Management, and Budget. This role is critical to ensuring the quality and reliability of vital records systems, including birth, death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce certificates, as well as cancer and birth defects registries that support public health, policy, and biomedical research.

Top Skills & Years of Experience:

• Over 8 years of experience leading and reviewing QA testing, functional testing, and system integration testing, preferably for projects in the Public Health area.
• Over 8 years of experience coordinating user acceptance testing on projects and support.
• Over 5 years of experience maintaining test logs and defect logs, reviewing defects, and prioritizing defects for resolution.
• Over 5 years of experience mentoring and guiding testing team members on testing best practices and providing feedback.
• Over 5 years of experience in Dev Ops or relevant tools to maintain test cases and test plans.
• Over 3 years of experience in automated testing tools such as Provar, Selenium, Smartbear, and related tools on large projects.
• Over 5 years of experience in preparing testing closure documents, creating and sharing testing metrics, updating testing logs, ensuring priority defects are completed, and managing project transitions to maintenance.

Full Job Description:

This position will function as the Lead Testing Analyst (Software Test Analyst
5) for Agency Services supporting Vital Records - MDHHS primarily and other Public Health areas within the Department of Technology Management and Budget. Vital Records exists to register, preserve, and issue certified copies of vital records. This includes birth, death, fetal death, marriage, and divorce certificates for all events that occur in Michigan. Vital statistics are compiled from these event registries and from Michigan's Central Cancer Registry and Birth Defects Registry, to support public health, policy, and biomedical research.

The Lead Testing Analyst will be trained in testing methodologies and Agile framework. The position will support all test activities for EDRS, BRS, VERA from the Vital Records area and applications from other public health areas in terms of communications to and from the Lead Business Analysts and ensuring that key test issues are managed or escalated as necessary. The Lead Testing Analyst will also be responsible for engaging the Test Analysts on a daily basis while planning and coordinating the testing activities for the testing team.

Additionally, will produce reports, presentations, and meeting minutes for quality assurance testing assignments and deliverables as required.

Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for preparing testing estimates for projects and maintenance support activities.
• Review, analyze and report on requirements or user stories and design deliverable documents, to ensure the requirements and designs are testable, measurable and adhere to standards.
• Participate in project team meetings and daily standup and to provide updates on defects and testing status.
• Provide status updates to management on testing quality of the project deliverables, test results, quality and recommend testing best practices for improvements.
• Create test planning documents based on user requirements.
• Complete test artifacts.
• Execute testing data management plan activities.
• Ensure testing resources are aligned to the project schedule, budget and tasks to complete on time.
• Record and manage defects to closure.
• Execute and document test cases as assigned, by completing each test step using end product.
• Store testing documents in Dev Ops and maintain at…