Tester

RC4VETS LLC•Chantilly, VA

2d•$70,000 - $78,000•Remote

About The Position

RC4Vets LLC, a verified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), is a provider of information technology services using Agile methods to commercial and government clients. RC4Vets is a company of Subject Matter Experts with deep expertise in Healthcare IT and Veterans Benefits Delivery. RC4Vets stands for Really care for our Veterans and our founding is based on the principles of improving the life of veterans using smart and innovative technology solutions. RC4Vets is seeking a Test Engineer who Designs, develops, and implements testing methods and equipment to ensure that the product will perform to specifications. Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating the product. Designs test cases for test plans and create test scenarios in which tests are carried out. Compiles data, defines required changes and reports defects and problems that occurred during the test process. Implements and participates in the walkthrough of the product. Automated testing may be used for leveling based on hiring manager discretion. Consults with the development and/or requirements team to coordinate and test applications. Performs analysis, diagnostics, and preliminary evaluations of products. Develop testing procedures. Develops test plans, scripts, scenarios, functional tests, regression tests, and deployment tests. Implements the testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes. Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics. Monitors for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and report to management periodically. Manual and Automated testing of integrations, interfaces, data transfers, APIs. Testing Web Services using tools like Ready API, Postman, Wave, AMP, etc. End-to-End Software Testing Life Cycle from testing, defect logging and verification of closure of defects, Root Cause Analysis. Functional Testing (System, Regression, and User Acceptance). Database Testing using SQL queries, simple scripts. Thorough understanding of integration requirements and mapping to user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases. Using Jira for maintaining sprint test artifacts and X-RAY for Test execution. Analysis of Test results, Defect management and reporting, maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM). Work experience in AWS Cloud, Exposure to CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, etc. Proactively communicate and coordinate with various internal and external project stakeholders. Analytical and investigation skills, willingness to learn and ability to troubleshoot.

Requirements

Bachelor's in computer science with 5-8 years (or commensurate experience)
Experience in Manual, Integration, Functional and Automated Testing.
Extensive Jira experience building test plans, issues and executions and creating report outputs.
Experience working in an Agile environment.

Nice To Haves

Extensive Integration & Interface Testing experience
Exposure to Corporate Database, MPI, VA Profile Database, existing API services in VA network, writing simple Oracle scripts for testing.
Experience with VA and/or other Federal Agencies.
Demonstrated experience in a remote work environment.
Strong understanding and hands-on experience working with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), NIST-800-53 guidance, HIPAA, and HITECH Act.
Well versed in Agile Methodology, the VA Veteran-Focused Integration Process (VIP) project management methodology.

Responsibilities

Designs, develops, and implements testing methods and equipment to ensure that the product will perform to specifications.
Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating the product.
Designs test cases for test plans and create test scenarios in which tests are carried out.
Compiles data, defines required changes and reports defects and problems that occurred during the test process.
Implements and participates in the walkthrough of the product.
Automated testing may be used for leveling based on hiring manager discretion.
Consults with the development and/or requirements team to coordinate and test applications.
Performs analysis, diagnostics, and preliminary evaluations of products.
Develop testing procedures.
Develops test plans, scripts, scenarios, functional tests, regression tests, and deployment tests.
Implements the testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.
Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.
Monitors for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and report to management periodically.
Manual and Automated testing of integrations, interfaces, data transfers, APIs.
Testing Web Services using tools like Ready API, Postman, Wave, AMP, etc.
End-to-End Software Testing Life Cycle from testing, defect logging and verification of closure of defects, Root Cause Analysis.
Functional Testing (System, Regression, and User Acceptance).
Database Testing using SQL queries, simple scripts.
Thorough understanding of integration requirements and mapping to user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
Using Jira for maintaining sprint test artifacts and X-RAY for Test execution.
Analysis of Test results, Defect management and reporting, maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
Work experience in AWS Cloud, Exposure to CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, etc.
Proactively communicate and coordinate with various internal and external project stakeholders.
Analytical and investigation skills, willingness to learn and ability to troubleshoot.