Test Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology • Bethesda, MD

10h • Onsite

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Test Engineer supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Test Engineer joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer. We provide consummate cyber security risk management “as a service” platform across multiple fabrics and centers. We have responsibility to ensure operational IT capabilities provide the client with necessary timeliness, accuracy and security of information demanded from all our highly professional roles. Be the change, lead our change – join us! HOW A TEST ENGINEER SUPPORT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The work will be done in a dynamic stakeholder environment within AWS. Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements.

Requirements

• 6 + years of related experience
• Bachelors Degree (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline)
• 6+ yrs Required Technical skills: Knowledge of testing and automated testing approaches
• TS/SCI with active polygraph
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of testing in a cloud architecture
• Willingness and ability to stay updated with advancements in software testing, data creation techniques, tools, and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Automated and manual software testing
• Developing test plans based on software requirements and technical specifications.
• Identifying new test scenarios and create detailed test cases to cover all aspects of the software.
• Performing functional, regression, integration, usability, and performance testing as necessary.
• Documenting defects and track them to resolution.
• Working closely with team members to clarify requirements and resolve issues
• Familiar with the creation and updating of various file formats (e.g. XML, JSON, CSV, Microsoft Excel)
• Programming languages (e.g. Python, R, SQL) commonly used for data manipulation and generation.
• Scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) commonly used to automate routine tasks.
• Working with databases and SQL for querying, inserting, and updating data as part of the generation process.
• Assessing quality and validity of generated data.
• Addressing challenges in data generation, such as generating data in formats suitable for specific applications.
• Documenting data generation processes, including parameters used, assumptions made, and transformations applied.
• Working with test automation tools (e.g. Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Cypress, JMeter) to validate web-based applications.
• Using Zephyr for test management
• Working with automation frameworks (e.g. JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, Protractor, PyTest) to test custom applications.
• Understanding how to test headless applications using application programming interfaces (e.g. REST).
• Debugging automated test scripts and understand application logs and error messages to pinpoint issues.
• Working with large and small teams of software developers as part of an Agile process.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. GitHub, GitLab) for managing code and collaborating with other team members.
• Working with CI/CD products (e.g. Jenkins, AWS Pipeline, DevOps) and integrating automated tests into the CI/CD process.
• Working within cloud-based platforms (e.g. AWS)

Benefits

• 401K with company match.
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages.
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications.
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from.
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays.
• variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.

What This Job Offers

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