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

ICF•Reston, VA

14h•Remote

About The Position

ICF Incorporated, LLC is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join their team. This role involves designing and creating test deliverables, developing automation test suites, performing various types of testing, and ensuring the quality of complex software systems. The engineer will collaborate with development teams to implement TDD, improve automated testing, and discuss risks. The position is 100% remote and can be performed from anywhere within the U.S.

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 (like test plan, test strategy, test cases, 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 framework from scratch/improve existing frameworks performance, as per the project requirements. This involves implementation of object-oriented programming (OOP) concepts.
Perform various testing types like black box testing, white box testing, integration testing, regression testing, smoke testing, user acceptance testing, 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 complex software system, including data, APIs, and web application.
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.