Remote Senior Automated Tester

Clearance Requirement: Must have an Active TS.

Our client is looking for a hands-on Senior Automated Tester to join our growing team!

The role operates in a SAFe based Agile environment and requires an understanding of the full software lifecycle, including DevSecOps implementations, Software Development, System Integration, and Cyber Security.

Responsibilities:

• Estimating test case writing and execution effort and keeping track of own and team progress.
• Designing test strategies, test plans, and test cases from requirements, design documents and specifications.
• Estimating test case writing and execution effort and keeping track of own and team progress.
• Test case authoring and holding test case reviews with stakeholders.
• Execution of test cases including functional, regression, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database.
• Reporting defects, tracking, validating, and closing.
• Recording test results and reporting them.
• 508 compliance test execution and documentation.
• Identifying regression test candidates for automation, planning automation activities across the team and automating test cases.
• Participation in daily scrum meetings, agile ceremonies, and weekly test team meetings.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.
• Install, maintain, or use software testing programs.
• Supporting our metrics program by keeping track and gathering metrics on all activities.
• Support UAT activities.
• Support end-of-sprint demos, user acceptance testing, and solicit feedback from NRCS on test artifacts and processes.

Must Haves:

• A Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in related field or equivalent work experience can be substituted instead of a degree.
• Must have a total 7 years of IT Experience
• At least 7 years’ experience in developing Automated Test cases using; Rational Quality Manager, Rational Performance Tester, Selenium, JAWS, NVDA, ANDI, Google Analytics, Cygwin Suite
• Strong experience in object-oriented design development
• Experience with DevSecOps.
• Hands on experience on Testing frameworks like Junit, Nunit, Cucumber, JMeter
• Experienced in testing SOAP & REST web services using Swagger, SOAPUI, ReadyAPI
• Prior experience with 508 Testing for Federal Agencies is a big plus
• Experience with testing Angular or REACT based UI frameworks.
• Experience with IBM Rational Suite of products
• Experience with Oracle and/or MS SQLServer
• Ability to do troubleshooting.
• Good communications skills in both writing and verbal.
• Must have a Top-Secret level clearance.