Automated Test Engineer

Automated Test Engineer

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

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What you’ll get to do: 

As a Software Test Automation Engineer, the responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Participate in Agile Scrum development methodology ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, scrum, backlog refinement, defining tasks/tests, estimating LOE, testing, tracking work done, retrospective, demonstration, etc.) 

• Develop, maintain, and perform sprint-level manual/automated testing activities (e.g., define scenarios, develop detailed scripts/procedures, develop Cucumber Gherkin feature files and scenarios, map user story acceptance criteria to script verification points) in Jira with Xray and Cucumber BDD plug-ins (or equivalent test automation software) 

• Develop and maintain automated scripts that are exercised during CI/CD builds and nightly regression test suite execution 

• Develop and maintain automated UI and backend (e.g., SQL, logs) scripts in a Java language-based Selenium/Cucumber/Serenity framework stored in a GitLab repository that may integrate with a Cucumber or generic test tool 

• Develop and maintain automated web service API validation scripts using Spring ToolSuite4, Rest Assured, Postman, Fiddler, and SoapUI 

• In collaboration with the Product Architect and/or Business Analyst, access impacts of candidate changes to the automated smoke and/or regression test suite(s) and plan accordingly 

• Perform full-scope static and dynamic testing of a system under test utilizing functional and non-functional testing techniques. These techniques can include the following test types: Unit (only for Automated scripts), Integration/API, End-To-End, Smoke, Regression/Functional, 508 Compliance, and Usability 

• Perform script and/or code peer reviews to ensure compliance with program-level manual/automated testing standards, guidelines, and processes 

• Document and track testing activity progress during a sprint. This includes capturing execution artifacts to support that all backlog acceptance criteria have been successfully verified/validated 

 

You Will Bring These Qualifications: 

• Current DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain one.  

• Must have: 

• Working knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Manual Functional Testing, Automated Testing, and Continuous Integration 

• College degree (B.S. or greater) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline. Experience accepted in lieu of degree 

• Hands on experience: 

• In an IT related field (7+ years) with 2-3 or more years analyzing, designing, and implementing software test automation solutions 

• Testing applications developed in Java, JavaScript, AngularJS, Oracle, and PostgresSQL 

• Developing and executing automated test scripts with open-source tools like Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Selenium, Cucumber BDD, Serenity BDD, …