Senior Tester

Steampunk•McLean, VA

38d•$110,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Steampunk is looking for you to join our team 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.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in an IT-related field
Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments
Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems
Proven experience growing and selling while delivering
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 actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing 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 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)
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Responsibilities

Understanding 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
Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following: Data validation testing, Functional testing, Performance and load testing, Usability testing, Accessibility (508) testing
Establishing manual and automated testing tools
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
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Working 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 to more junior team members