Senior Test Engineer

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

UNAVAILABLE seeks a Senior Test Engineer to join our DevSecOps quality assurance practice. You will contribute to testing across application, cloud, and data systems, applying automated strategies and risk-based approaches in an Agile environment.

You will author test plans, build automated scripts, and work with developers to ensure secure, reliable software delivery. Strong collaboration and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• 3 Years of Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• 3 Years of Experience with performance and load testing
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

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
• Establishing automated 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
• 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

Skills

Git

Scripting

DevSecOps

Test Automation

Selenium

Appium

REST/SoapUI

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Agile

Education

BS Degree in IT or related field

Tools

GitHub

GitLab

Bitbucket

Job description

Overview

As a Senior Test Engineer, 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 5-7 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
• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• 3 Years of Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• 3 Years of Experience with performance and load testing

Preferred:

• MS Degree
• Certifications:
  • CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
  • International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
  • Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)
  • DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)
• 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