Automation Test Engineer Senior

SAIC•Ashburn, VA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

SAIC is currently seeking a motivated and energetic Senior-level Automation Engineer to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. The Automation Engineer will participate in software testing, creation and implementation of Test Strategies, Plans, and Automated Test Scripts as well as other aspects of the software development lifecycle. The candidate will be responsible for developing and testing Java code as dictated by project requirement. This position is hybrid-remote and requires on-site work in Ashburn, VA 2 days per week.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field with 9+ years of technical experience.
Experience with: Java.
Spring Boot.
Selenium.
Playwright (critical).
Cucumber.
Rest Assured library for webservices.
JavaScript for Playwright.
Familiarity with UI automation tools.
AWS (plus).
Oracle/Postgres DB, PL/SQL.
Experience with one of the following Test Management Software Tools: TestNG, Selenium and Jira.
Write SQL queries with clear understanding of relational databases.
Ability to understand data models and write test scripts based on the data model.
Ability to generate test data and perform validation
Proven ability to develop, execute and maintain automated test suites across multiple environments: backend applications, middleware, desktop, and web service testing using Soap UI with basic XML knowledge.
Strong written/oral communication skills and problem-solving skills; ability to communicate information to a variety of groups at different technical skill levels.
Must be a US Citizen.

Nice To Haves

Prior software development experience is a plus.
Experience working in an agile development environment.
Docker.
Jenkins.
Konvoy.
Kubernetes.
Master’s degree in computer science or related field is a plus.

Responsibilities

Developing automation test scripts.
Generating test data and performing Data Validation.
Data interface message testing with JSON and XML message sets.
Developing SQL or Unix scripts for test data generation or test harness automation.
Execute regression, functional, and system testing.
Verifying results and producing test summaries and defect reports.
Identifying defects and requirement discrepancies, and generating defect change requests and reporting discrepancies.
Use modern software engineering IDEs including Eclipse, IntelliJ, etc. for design, development, and testing the software.
Work with users in an Agile development approach to understand and document requirements in JIRA.
Evaluate test results, report and manage defects.
Experience in all stages of application testing, especially backend testing, functional, usability, regression, load/stress and performance testing.