QA Tester

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown is seeking a Quality Assurance Tester to join its DevSecOps and Salesforce testing efforts in McLean, VA. You will collaborate with product/design to define testing parameters, write test plans, and deliver QA reports across applications, cloud, and data systems.

The role requires at least 5 years of QA experience in Agile/DevSecOps, strong communication, and the ability to create and implement automated testing, including Selenium, Appium, and REST tools. A U.S.

Qualifications

• 5 years of related experience in software/IT/cloud consulting
• Bachelor's Degree required or equivalency
• Experience documenting an as-is state and performing gap analysis
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Security clearance or ability to obtain US government clearance preferred

Responsibilities

• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, bug reports, and QA reports
• Manage test data architecture with the Tech Lead
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline test procedures
• Perform data, functional, performance, usability, and accessibility testing
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Validate testing across Salesforce and related systems
• Convey stakeholder needs to developers and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Present status updates and cross-train DevOps team members

Skills

Quality Assurance

Test Automation

Agile/DevSecOps

Communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Selenium

Appium

SoapUI

RestAssured

Postman

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

Overview

As a Quality Assurance Tester, you will work with our growing DevSecOps & Salesforce practices delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development.We are looking for candidates with minimum 5 years experience with experience in quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture with the Tech Lead
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
• Data validation testing
• Functional testing
• Performance and load testing
• Usability testing
• Accessibility (508) testing
• Establishingautomated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for Salesforce
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members

Qualifications

Required:

• Must be able to maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
• Bachelor's Degree required; equivalency offered
• 5 years of related experience in software/IT/cloud consulting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Preferred:

• Certifications a plus:
• CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)
• DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)
• DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience with performance and load testing
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• Current or previous DHS CBP Clearance is preferred