Automation Test Engineer

Employee Type: Regular Required Must be a U.S.

Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include, but are not limited to: 3-year check for felony convictions 1-year check for illegal drug use 1-year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud College degree (B.S.

or greater) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline.

Seven (7) or more years related IT experience, which includes 3 or more years analyzing, designing and implementing integrated testing 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, and Mave Programming in Java (3-5 years) and with other programming technologies (e.g., JavaScript, Web Services, SOAP, XML) SQL CRUD script development experience against Oracle and PostgreSQL databases Applying estimation techniques to manual test script efforts and automated test script development/maintenance efforts Interacting with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Product Architects, Developers, and Technical Writers, and providing guidance on automation tools and testing methods to meet project specific needs Familiar working within a continuous integration environment and supporting tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitLab, AWS, Spring ToolSuite4, Rest Assured, Postman, ANDI Working knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Manual Functional Testing, Automated Testing, and Continuous Integration Participating in a high performing, highly engaged and motivated Scrum team Applying the Agile development approach to incremental software development projects Understanding the elements of the software development life cycle Able to work a hybrid schedule with a 2-3 day on-site requirement in Ashburn, VA 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 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 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 Design, Develop, and implement automated testing frameworks from scratch, leveraging relevant tools and technologies Designing, implementing and/or testing web services and/or n-tier web-based Designing, implementing and/or testing mobile devices using Android Expresso