Principal Test Engineer, Cloud CI/CD Automation

Ideal Innovations Incorporated

Bethesda (MD)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Ideal Innovations, Inc. is seeking a Principal Test Engineer to provide principal-level test engineering expertise in a commercial cloud environment, supporting automated testing across CI/CD pipelines.

The role emphasizes developing scripts, evaluating results, and feedback loops to improve product quality and delivery. The candidate will lead back-end and front-end testing, test data/script development, and performance testing practices, leveraging Selenium, Katalon Studio, Python, JMeter,

Qualifications

To be considered, must have an active TS/SCI with at least a CI-poly.
Education: BS degree with 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 10+ years of prior relevant experience. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree.
In-depth experience testing both back-end and front-end applications processes, scripting languages (ex: Python) to automate tasks, and test data/script development.
Knowledge of or direct experience with software performance testing practices.
Direct experience with creation, authoring, execution and documentation of test cases/result sets for software products in an agile cadence.
Significant 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.

Responsibilities

Participate in program Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, increment planning) to support innovation and enhancement of custom applications through iteration/functionality testing.
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.