Senior Tester

US-VA-McLean

External

Req #: 7073
Type: Full-Time
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				Overview:

Steampunk is looking for you to join our team 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. 

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
* Establishing manual and automated testing tools
* 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 to more junior team members 

Qualifications:

* Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
* Bachelor's degree or Master's degree in an IT-related field
* Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments 
* Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems 
* Proven experience growing and selling while delivering 
* 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 with performance and load testing 

* Preferred: 
* 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
			
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