Automation Test Engineer - SAFe DevSecOps SME

Ideal Innovations, Inc.; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 154,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Ideal Innovations, Inc. in Bethesda, MD seeks a Test Engineer SME to own automated testing within a SAFe Agile DevSecOps pipeline in a commercial cloud environment.

You will develop Python validation scripts with Selenium and Katalon Studio, design test data, and support CI/CD while collaborating with systems engineering, software development, training, and security to deliver reliable software.

Active TS/SCI with CI poly is required and the position is onsite in Bethesda, MD.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with a CI poly.
• Education: Masters with 15+ years or a PhD with 13+ years of relevant experience; substitutions allowed.
• Ability to test both front-end and back-end processes.
• Expertise with scripting languages (Python) for automating tasks and test data/script development.
• Extensive experience creating, authoring, executing, and documenting test cases in an Agile cadence; software performance testing practices.
• Extensive experience working within Commercial Cloud Platforms (AWS) and DevOps tools.
• SAFe Agile and DevOps development environment experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute automated testing scripts as part of a SAFe Agile DevSecOps pipeline.
• Perform software development to implement scripts, evaluate test results, and feedback in CI/CD pipelines.
• Collaborate with Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Software Developers to improve test approaches and automate regression tests.
• Leverage AWS, DevOps practices to ensure repeatability and configuration management of test cases/scripts.
• Support performance testing activities using tools like JMeter and document end-to-end test case narratives in JIRA/Confluence.
• Generate test data and identify use/corner cases to meet User Story needs.

Skills

Python scripting

Test automation

SAFe Agile

DevOps

CI/CD

AWS

Performance testing

Education

Masters with 15+ years of relevant experience

PhD with 13+ years of relevant experience

Tools

Selenium

Katalon Studio

JMeter

JIRA/Confluence

Job description

Ideal Innovations, Inc. in Bethesda, MD seeks a Test Engineer SME to own automated testing within a SAFe Agile DevSecOps pipeline in a commercial cloud environment.

You will develop Python validation scripts with Selenium and Katalon Studio, design test data, and support CI/CD while collaborating with systems engineering, software development, training, and security to deliver reliable software.

Active TS/SCI with CI poly is required and the position is onsite in Bethesda, MD.