Java Lead Backend Developer

Cb•Chicago, IL

3d•Onsite

About The Position

iQuasar LLC has an exciting opportunity for a Java Lead Backend Developer to join our growing team. As a Java Lead Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, and deployment of the Company's state-of-the-art digital platform. We are seeking a Java Lead Backend Developer for a contract position.

Requirements

10+ years' experience of designing and developing software applications in Java
Minimum of 3+ years’ experience in leading geographically disbursed teams
Strong Java 17 Backend development
RESTful web services
AWS knowledge – IAM, Kinesis, DynamoDB, API stack, SQS, SNS, KMS
Slick – SQL queries
DevOps
High Availability and Reliable Solutions
Some architecture experience
Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment

Nice To Haves

Master's degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering

Responsibilities

Plan and perform quality assurance activities across the full SDLC.
Validate application changes in development, test, staging, or other non-production environments before production promotion.
Develop and maintain automated and manual test cases, scripts, suites, data, and evidence.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
Maintain or support testing and quality gates using Selenium, SonarQube, Jenkins, and related tools.
Validate functional requirements and user-story acceptance criteria.
Perform or coordinate regression, integration, system, performance, and release testing.
Validate Section 508 conformance for releases containing applicable ICT or user-interface functionality.
Identify defects, document reproducible results, and work with engineers through resolution and retesting.
Review security scan and code-quality results as part of release readiness.
Monitor test coverage and recommend improvements to automated testing.
Support User Acceptance Testing when required by the federal customer.
Produce test plans, test scripts, test results, defect evidence, and release-quality documentation.
Support production incident analysis by validating fixes and regression impacts.