Senior Test Engineer

Steampunk • McLean, VA

2d • $110,000 - $160,000

About The Position

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

Requirements

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Bachelor's Degree and 8+ years total experience
• 5+ years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 5+ years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5+ years of application DevSecOps experience with development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience developing and deploying containerized applications using Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes
• 5+ years of experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• 3+ years of experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines
• 3+ years of experience with performance and load testing

Nice To Haves

• Certifications: CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing), International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification, Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST), DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• 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
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results, including three or more of the following: Data validation testing, Functional testing, Performance and load testing, Usability testing, Accessibility (508) testing
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• 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
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Benefits

• The projected compensation range for this position is $110,000 to $160,000.
• Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees.
• Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior