Application Analyst & Tester

CACI International • Sterling, VA

1d • $58,000 - $115,900 • Hybrid

About The Position

CACI is currently looking for a motivated and skilled Application Analyst & Tester to perform verification and validation of multiple integrated software applications. You will join our SHIV integration test team located in Sterling, VA and the Denver Tech Center, CO. Your primary focus will be systems analysis and design of automated end-to-end (E2E) testing strategies that utilize real-world user stories. Join this passionate team of systems engineers and software developers as we help our customer transition from heavily manual testing practices to automated integration tests. As a member of the SHIV team, you will design automated verification strategies and integration tests aimed at reducing risk and complexity within a diverse software application ecosystem. You will learn and analyze several third-party software applications that deploy new features on an agile basis. Finally, you will work closely with the SHIV team’s software developers to perform troubleshooting when implemented tests find software bugs and defects.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph (or willingness to obtain a polygraph)
• BA/BS in STEM field or related experience
• 3+ years of systems engineering experience with planning and scheduling software
• Experience with mission planning software, along with associated collection strategies, tasks, and activities used to support data collection and exploitation
• A user-centric mindset when developing testing of processes across multiple software applications
• Ability to act as a bridge between software developers and project stakeholders.
• Ability to communicate effectively and collaboratively in a team environment

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting agile software development with systems integration and verification skills
• Experience with crafting acceptance criteria for functional requirements
• Experience with JIRA and Confluence
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks, SQL for data verification, and API testing tools.
• Coding experience can be helpful but is not required

Responsibilities

• Partner with external stakeholders to learn and understand their applications, interconnections, operations, functional requirements, and dependencies
• Act as subject matter expert for planning and tasking requirements, detailed collection strategies, dynamic mission demands, and operational objectives
• Develop E2E autonomous systems testing strategies using real-world user scenarios and realistic, dynamic test data in an agile-based test environment
• Design scripts for automated tests that exercise UI-based and API-based functionality and satisfy the test’s acceptance criteria
• Maintain and enhance existing tests to exercise newly deployed and/or updated software features developed by third-party agile programs

Benefits

• flexible time off benefit
• robust learning resources
• competitive compensation
• benefits
• learning and development opportunities
• comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level