QA Test Engineer

QA Test EngineerSeize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a QA Test Engineer supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a QA Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACTDevelop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.Automated test script developmentDevelop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.Other related duties as assigned.WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEEDBachelor's Degree; OR in lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is requiredMinimum of 5-7 years' experience in technology or software development is preferred.Experience eliciting and documenting business processes and requirements.Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results and providing test artifacts.Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, WorkflowHands-on knowledge of scripting languages such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)Experience with API Testing using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similarExperience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.Experience using automation toolsDemonstrated experience with automation testing tools using Artificial Intelligence (AI) or similarPreferred Experience:Software Testing certification is preferred.Mail.DAT and Mail.XML are fundamental to the electronic data exchange of mailing information. Experience with Mail.DAT, and Mail.XML specification (highly desired but not required).Security Clearance Level:Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprintingThis position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.Location:Washington, DCGDIT IS YOUR PLACE:401K with company matchComprehensive health and wellness packagesInternal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your careerProfessional growth opportunities including paid education and certificationsCutting-edge technology you can learn fromRest and recharge with paid vacation and holidaysThe likely salary range for this position is $83,927 - $113,549. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40Travel Required: Less than 10%Telecommuting Options: OnsiteWork Location: USA DC WashingtonAdditional Work Locations:Total Rewards at GDIT:Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.Our Identity Verification Process:As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.About Our Work:We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.