Software Testing & Quality Engineer

Arena Technical Resources, LLC (ATR); Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Arena Technical Resources, LLC (ATR) is seeking a Software Testing & Quality Engineer in Washington, DC. Must obtain and maintain a Public Trust security clearance and pass a government background screening.

The role requires 5–7 years in technology or software development and experience with manual and automated testing, API testing, and data formats (CSV/XML/JSON). The position emphasizes test planning, CAT/MTAC participation, and developing SRS, test scripts, metrics, and training materials

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in technology or software development preferred.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business processes and requirements.
• Experience creating manual and automated test scripts and test artifacts.
• Experience performing production validation through smoke, regression, and functional testing; document results.

Responsibilities

• Develop SRS documents to support functional requirements for Mail.dat and Mail.XML.
• Update and maintain technical specifications and guides; develop new ones for revised functionality.
• Perform Customer Acceptance Testing to review TRD, develop/update test scripts, and validate production through smoke/functional testing.
• Provide expert participation in mail industry meetings/forums/MTAC workgroups and user groups.
• Develop performance metrics to track and report CAT status.
• Develop automated test scripts.
• Develop training materials, SOPs and guides for CPPP applications.

Skills

Test scripting

Manual testing

Automated testing

API testing

SQL

Python

Java

Data formats

MS Office

Agile/Waterfall

Education

Software Testing certification

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Postman

SoapUI

Automation tools

Job description

Job Title: Software Testing & Quality Engineer
Job Location: Washington, DC
Eligibility/Clearance: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public
Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening
process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting.

This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security
clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the
U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows:
U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for
longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet
certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S.
(including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in
the last 3 years.

List of tasks to be performed:

• Develop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).
• Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.
• Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.
• Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.
• Automated test script development
• Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.
• Other related duties as assigned.

Required Experience Level:

• Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience, in technology or software development preferred.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business process and requirement.
• Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
• Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
• Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.
• Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, Workflow
• Hands‑on knowledge of scripting language such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)
• Experience with API Testing using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar
• Experience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.
• Experience using automation tools
• Software Testing certification is preferred.

Preferred Experience:
- Mail.DAT and Mail.XML are fundamental to the electronic data
exchange of mailing information. Experience with Mail.DAT, and
Mail.XML specification (highly desired but not required).
- Demonstrated experience with automation testing tool using
Artificial Intelligence (AI) or similar

Arena Technical Resources, LLC, (ATR) is an Equal Opportunity Employer
(EOE) who will provide equal employment opportunity to employees and
applicants for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion,
color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry,
sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status,
family structure, genetic information, or mental or physical disability.