Automated Test Engineer
US-VA-McLean
External
Req #: 6178
Type: Full-Time
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Overview: Are you inquisitive? Thorough? Diplomatic? Ever worked as part of a program that is Agile? Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence? Steampunk is looking for you to join our team as a Automated Test Engineer. You'll implement automation for increased efficiency and provide hands-on testing and QA expertise in mission critical work across our client base. Responsibilities: As a Automated Test Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. Responsibilities include: * 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 * 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 DevSecOps team members * Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members Qualifications: Required: * 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 * 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
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