Senior Test Engineer — DevSecOps & Automation

Steampunk; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk in the United States is seeking a Test Engineer to join our growing DevSecOps practice delivering QA services for application, cloud and data systems. You will write test plans, create test cases, run functional, performance and security tests, and develop automated testing scripts to support CI/CD pipelines.

You will mentor junior teammates and work with developers to ensure secure, high-quality releases.

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
• Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• Application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• 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
• Experience with performance and load testing

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
• 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 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

Skills

DevSecOps experience

Programming or scripting languages

CI/CD integration

Security clearance eligibility

Education

BS Degree in IT or related IT experience

Tools

Git (GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket)

Docker

Kubernetes

Selenium

Appium

SoapUI

RestAssured

Postman

Job description

Steampunk in the United States is seeking a Test Engineer to join our growing DevSecOps practice delivering QA services for application, cloud and data systems. You will write test plans, create test cases, run functional, performance and security tests, and develop automated testing scripts to support CI/CD pipelines.

You will mentor junior teammates and work with developers to ensure secure, high-quality releases.