Associate Test Engineer

Steampunk•McLean, VA

2d•$60,000 - $100,000

About The Position

As an Associate Test Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development within an AI-enabled software development environment. We are looking for candidates with experience in quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

1 year of QA/Testing Experience with experience in an Agile environment
Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
Experience with one or more testing tools such as Selenium, JMeter
Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Pipelines, CircleCI, TravisCI
Experience implementing automated testing frameworks including Selenium
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills

Responsibilities

Understand 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
Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
Test and examine code written by others and analyze results, including one or more of the following:
Data validation testing
Functional testing
Performance and load testing
Usability testing
Accessibility (508) testing
Work with established automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Work 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