Quality Assurance Tester

Overview

As a Quality Assurance Tester, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with experience with quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
• Data validation testing
• Functional testing
• Performance and load testing
• Usability testing
• Accessibility (508) testing
• Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 3 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with performance and load testing
• Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Preferred

• Certifications:
• CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred