Job Title: Tester - Senior Task ID: HBITS-08-15056 Position Duration: 30 Months Client: State of NY Agency: NYS Department of Labor Please call
(703) 466-0951 | (571) 351-1868 | (703) 348-3018 or email at nysreqs@ilinksolutions.com
Description - Develop and execute functional and integration test scenarios for the Al-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 Al-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 Al 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.
Mandatory Qualifications 1 60 months of experience performing functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of enterprise web applications and distributed systems. 2 36 months of experience testing REST APIs and microservices, including request/response payloads, schemas, authentication, error handling, and backend data validation. 3 36 months of experience testing Java-based enterprise applications or services and using SQL to validate backend processing and data integrity. 4 12 months experience testing or validating AI-enabled applications or integrations, including functional validation of AI outputs and data exchanged with systems of record. 5 12 months experience validating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, clients, tools, or integrations, including expected and error-path behavior. 6 24 months experience using API/service testing tools such as Postman, SoapUI, JMeter, or comparable tools. 7 24 months experience creating test plans, test cases, traceability, defect documentation, and test execution summaries in an Agile delivery environment.
Required Documentation • Resume
• Copy of Candidate Identification
(i.e., Driver's License/Green Card/Visa and Passport if applicable)
• Any documents referenced in the above Requested Qualifications
(i.e., professional certifications, degrees, etc.) i-Link Solutions requires a Bachelor's Degree or its equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Information Systems or a closely related field of study for all positions.
