Testing Lead

General Dynamics•Mechanicsburg, PA

28d•Remote

About The Position

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Testing Lead supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Testing Lead, you will help ensure that today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a Lead Tester joining our team to ensure that USPS Information Technology products perform properly and as expected. The Testing Lead will be responsible for overseeing the testing strategy, resource allocation, and team management for various testing roles including automation testers, functional testers, and CAT testers. The Testing Lead will work closely with the Environment Management Team and SCRUM teams to identify appropriate test environments per release.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant experience in testing environment
Experience in creating clear test plans and scenarios using HP ALM or similar tools
Proficiency in manual testing with knowledge of when to incorporate automated testing
Ability to build and utilize Test Automation scripts and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, UFT)
Understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies
Knowledge of Version One or other work management tools
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate with stakeholders
Experience testing in cloud environments, GCP or Azure preferred
Knowledge of SQL for querying databases
Familiarity with postman for Web services testing
Understanding of SDLC and application lifecycle
Working knowledge of one or more of the following: DevSecOps VersionOne Postman, SoapUI, AML, UFT Secure Coding practices Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices PLSQL
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Nice To Haves

Prior USPS experience is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Develop and oversee the testing strategy
Allocate resources effectively for testing activities
Manage automation testers, functional testers, and CAT testers
Assist in identifying appropriate test environments for each release
Collaborate with the Environment Management Team and SCRUM teams
Act as the Testing Lead, with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Collaborate and report to the application team leaders, business partners, and ELT on a routine basis
Ability to cross train and mentor the testing team, including other vendors and USPS resources
Responsible for Chaos and HA testing

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
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a 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.
To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees 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.
GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year.
Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire.
The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees.
To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as 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.
We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.