Quality Assurance Tester

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Client in the United States seeks a Quality Assurance Tester to join our DevSecOps practice. The role focuses on QA services across application, cloud, and data systems, requiring 3–5 years in QA and test automation within an Agile/DevSecOps environment.

You will design test plans, automate tests with Selenium, Appium, and other tools, contribute to CI/CD pipelines, and help secure systems against cyber threats.

Qualifications

• U.S. government security clearance eligibility.
• BS in IT or related field with 2 years IT experience.
• 3 years with Git SCM providers (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
• 3 years with programming or scripting languages.
• 3 years DevSecOps experience in Agile environments.
• Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• 3 years implementing test automation with Selenium, Appium, SoapUI, RestAssured, Postman.
• CI/CD pipeline test automation experience.
• Experience in one or more cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholder needs and convey to developers.
• Meet with product design to determine testing parameters.
• Write test plans, create test cases, and QA reports.
• Manage test data architecture and requests.
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline test procedures.
• Conduct data, functional, performance, usability, and accessibility testing.
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure.
• Validate testing for cloud migrations and data sets.
• Develop automated scripts with parallelization and idempotency.
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes.
• Ensure systems are secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Collaborate with developers to ensure processes are followed.
• Document as-is state, perform gap analysis, and produce recommendations.
• Leverage virtualization and containerization for testing.
• Contribute to DevSecOps process improvements.
• Present status updates and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Security clearance

Communication skills

DevSecOps experience

Agile methodology

Programming languages

Git experience

CI/CD testing

Load testing

Cloud environments

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Selenium

Appium

SoapUI

RestAssured

Postman

Job description

Overview

As a Quality Assurance Tester, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with experience with quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• 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 definition and requests
• 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 cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and 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
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
• 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.
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 3 Years of 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
• Experience with performance and load testing
• Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Preferred:

• Certifications:
  • CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
  • International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
• 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