811679 Test Engineer $140,000.00

B4Corp; Bethesda, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Seven weeks of PTO per year

Full Vanguard 401k with employer match

Medical/Dental/Vision insurance

Job summary

B4Corp is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to join an Agile team in Bethesda, MD. The role requires a TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph and offers a salary of up to $140,000 per year.

You will design, develop, and execute automated tests to ensure quality across a commercial cloud environment, aligning with user stories and acceptance criteria. Responsibilities include building test approaches, automating recurring tests, and supporting CI/CD pipelines with tools like Selenium, Katalon Studio, and

Qualifications

• Automation testing experience in software quality assurance.
• Experience creating, executing and documenting test cases in an agile cadence.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks and tools like Selenium or Katalon Studio.
• Ability to write efficient and scalable test scripts.
• Experience with software performance testing practices.
• Experience with Commercial Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS) and DevOps tools in SAFe/DevOps environments.
• BS degree with 8-12 years of relevant experience or Master’s 6-10 years; degree could be substituted by experience.

Responsibilities

• Participate in Agile software development activities to support testing of custom applications in a cloud environment.
• Assess story points and complexity to ensure testing aligns with acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate to develop test approaches emphasizing automation of recurring/regression tests.
• Develop automated tests using GUI/COTS products (e.g., Selenium, Katalon Studio).
• Support end-to-end test narratives and performance testing using tools like JMeter.

Skills

Automation testing

Selenium

Katalon Studio

Education

BS degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Selenium

Katalon Studio

JMeter

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Labor Category: Test Engineer
Position Title: Tester
Position Level: Level 3 – Senior
Salary: Up to $140,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Bethesda MD

Description:

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

This role provides technical expertise and collaboration across an Agile team to ensure system application requirements and user stories are ready for implementation. This role supports software systems development, including documenting system application requirements, system interfaces, and data sources; and, supporting technical planning, development, integration, and verification and validation. This role refines customer roadmaps, enterprise epics, and strategic requirements into detailed requirements and actionable user stories to be delivered by the entire team. This role coordinates with the Scrum Master to prioritize user stories that realize customer requirements. Flexible cross-training to also provide systems engineering, software development, training, security, and testing is also desired.

Details:

Labor Category: Test Engineer
Position Title: Tester
Position Level: Level 3 – Senior
Salary: Up to $140,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Bethesda MD

Mandatory Requirements

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

As a Test Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to design, develop, and execute automated tests to ensure the quality and reliability of software applications and services in a Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery Pipeline within a commercial cloud environment. You will play a crucial role in the software development lifecycle, aiming to streamline testing processes, reduce defects, and accelerate software releases.

Primary Responsibilities

• Participate in program Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, increment planning) to support innovation and enhancement of custom applications through iteration/functionality testing within a commercial cloud environment.
• Participate and collaborate with team members to assess StoryPoint/complexity efforts (using best practices) to ensure proper testing and delivery of functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria
• Collaborate with team members (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software Developers) to develop test approaches with emphasis on automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected toolsets
• Develop automated test cases using knowledge of custom Applications through designated GUI/COTS products (ex: Selenium and Katalon Studio)
• Leverage DevOps practices to ensure repeatability and Configuration Management of test cases/scripts are maintained and continuously improved
• Develop and document end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management system (JIRA/Confluence) and support performance testing/evaluation activities using tools such as Jmeter

Basic Qualifications

• Experience in software quality assurance with a focus on automation testing.
• Experience with creation, authoring, execution and documentation of test cases/result sets for software products in an agile cadence
• Experience using automation frameworks and tools like Selenium or Katalon Studio
• Familiarity in writing efficient and scalable test scripts.
• Direct experience with software performance testing practices
• Experience working/testing within Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex: AWS) and DevOps tools, and working in a SAFe Agile and DevOps development environment
• Demonstrated ability to work within collaborative environment to execute test cases complimentary to development efforts
• BS degree with and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Master’s 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree

Optional Requirements

• Hands-on experience with Katalon Studio and Katalon Runtime Engine
• Programming skills in languages such as Java or Python enabling the ability to write efficient and scalable test scripts.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub) and their integration with automated tests.
• Direct experience with AWS environments

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation:

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement:

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
  – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
  – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance:

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus:

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO):

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

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