ICF Incorporated, LLC: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer – Reston, VA

ICF•Reston, VA

1d•Remote

About The Position

ICF is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our team. This role involves designing and creating test deliverables, developing automation test suites, performing various testing types, and ensuring the quality of complex software systems. The ideal candidate will work closely with engineering teams to implement TDD, improve automated testing, and translate business requirements into test scenarios.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or foreign equivalent degree in computer science, information technology, information science or a closely related technical field and 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience with software quality assurance and/or testing.
4 years of experience creating effective automation test suites for regression testing using programming languages like Java, and/or JavaScript etc.
4 years of experience designing and creating test automation script for API testing using programming languages like Java, and/or JavaScript, and tools like postman etc.
4 years of experience designing and creating generic utility classes (custom test utilities) using JAVA and/or JavaScript.
4 years of experience in critical thinking, problem solving and analysis.
4 years of experience working with Jenkins, Git etc.
4 years of Hands-on experience with front end automation tools such as Cypress, Selenium etc.
3 years of Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools like JIRA/Confluence.
2 years of experience designing and creating test cases for parallel testing using JAVA multithreading capabilities.
2 years of experience building automation frameworks from scratch.

Responsibilities

Design and create test deliverables such as test plans, test strategies, test cases, and test scripts based on business requirements, ER diagrams, data flow diagrams, and case diagrams.
Create a requirement traceability matrix to ensure each requirement has at least one or more test cases.
Create effective automation test suites for regression testing using programming languages like Java, C#, JavaScript etc.
Create robust test automation frameworks from scratch or improve existing frameworks' performance as per project requirements, involving object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts.
Perform various testing types including black box testing, white box testing, integration testing, regression testing, smoke testing, user acceptance testing, and post-production testing.
Ensure the correctness, performance, security, and reliability of a database management system (DBMS) and the data it stores.
Create and maintain automation test suites using efficient data structures and algorithms.
Ensure the overall quality of all aspects of complex software systems, including data, APIs, and web applications.
Work with engineering teams to practice TDD to leverage test automation for regression testing.
Work with IT Developers to improve automated testing where possible.
Work with developers and other automation engineers to create and maintain automation frameworks.
Translate high-level business requirements into test scenarios.
Work closely with engineering teams to discuss risk and risk mitigation.