Automation Tester (Closed)

Description of Work:

• Provide development support to the government client to enable design, development, and implementation of web-based enterprise software solutions following the Agile lifecycle.
• Participate on enterprise projects that require migration strategies using web-based technologies and relational databases across multiple platforms.
• Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project, design and develop user interfaces/applications, and conduct testing.
• Understands the business problem statement, user scenarios, and technical constraints.
• Plan for and conduct implementation activities.
• Participate in planning, retrospectives, demos and daily stand-ups.
• Continuously develops knowledge and skills on pertinent systems.
• Perform thorough unit and functional testing of the code to ensure high quality bug free code.
• Provide weekly and monthly status to the management.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Become knowledgeable on the Disability process, ensure understanding of the systems and application processes to be able to execute that role in an effective manner.

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed.

• Bachelor’s Degree and 7 years of relevant work experience; Master’s Degree and 5 years of relevant experience; or a minimum of 11 years of relevant work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience working with Core Java principles, and automated testing tools/frameworks such as but not limited to; Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG, and Protractor.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience developing, testing and/or integrating applications in a DevOps/Continuous Integration/Deployment environment using Jenkins including Cloud deployments
• Minimum of 2 year of experience in using Maven, Git, Bitbucket and Jenkins and advanced understanding of DB2, Postgres, and SQL.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience setting up the automation model at an enterprise level for web based applications, mainframe based applications and web services.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in working with VBScript, C Languages, Groovy and PowerShell Scripting
• Minimum of 1 year of experience as a self-starter who can work with a large and diverse team of business, management and IT individuals. Must have multitasking ability with excellent organization, analytical, planning and scheduling skills.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration.

• Prior SSA or Federal government experience.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies and tools.
• Web services testing for REST API, Queues and Automation (Jenkins preferred) using standard frameworks.
• Knowledge of various software testing methods (Regression, Load/Stress, Code Coverage Analysis, Black/White box testing, Acceptance, Performance).
• Experience in automating Desktop based application.
• Experience working with AI test automation tools.
• Experience creating effective test plans and BDD test cases.
• Experience in creating test plans based on end-user scenarios.
• Excellent trouble-shooting and analytical skills.
• Experience in Unit Testing.
• Experience in Security Testing, Accessibility Testing.
• Prior QA automation testing, quality assurance methodologies and processes experience.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
• Ability to quickly understand government specific architectures, existing and proposed, and provide solutions for technical problems.

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