Test Engineer

Steampunk•McLean, VA

8d•$90,000 - $130,000

About The Position

Steampunk is seeking a Test Engineer to implement automation that increases efficiency and provide hands-on testing and quality assurance expertise for mission-critical client work. The role is part of the company’s growing DevSecOps practice, delivering quality assurance services for application, cloud, and data systems development in Agile environments. The Test Engineer works with stakeholders, product designers, developers, software engineers, and DevOps team members to plan and execute testing, automate and improve development and release processes, and support secure, reliable systems. The role also documents current environments, analyzes gaps, recommends improvements, provides status updates and cross-training, and contributes as an individual contributor while mentoring more junior team members. The position requires 3–5 years of relevant experience. The projected annual compensation range is $90,000 to $130,000.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance.
Bachelor’s degree in an IT field, or a bachelor’s degree in a non-IT field plus 2 years of related IT experience.
3 years of experience with Git source-control providers such as GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket.
3 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages.
3 years of application DevSecOps experience, including active development experience in an Agile environment.
Experience using Docker containers and platforms such as Kubernetes.
3 years of experience implementing test automation with tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, or Postman.
Experience integrating performance, security, and functional test automation into CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with performance and load testing.
Experience in one or more cloud computing environments, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Nice To Haves

CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing) certification.
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) certification.
Excellent written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and collaborative skills.
Experience documenting an as-is environment, performing a gap analysis, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Understand stakeholder needs and communicate them to developers.
Meet with product design teams to determine testing parameters.
Write test plans, test cases, test procedures, bug reports, and final QA reports.
Manage test data architecture definition and requests.
Troubleshoot errors and streamline test procedures.
Test and examine code written by others and analyze results, covering at least three listed testing types: data validation, functional, performance and load, usability, or accessibility (508) testing.
Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure.
Provide validation testing of systems and data sets for cloud migrations.
Develop automated testing scripts that account for parallelization and idempotency.
Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes.
Help ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended.
Document the as-is environment, perform gap analyses, and produce artifacts describing options and recommendations.
Use virtualization and containerization to optimize software system testing.
Work with teams to continuously improve DevSecOps processes and tools.
Engineer and implement solutions and recommend continuous improvements to services.
Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to DevOps team members.
Contribute as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members.