DevOps Tester Senior | McLean, VA

Job Title

This position may be offered to a candidate authorized to work in the US for his/her/their stated employer, without any restrictions which would prevent the candidate from working on the proposed assignment for the duration of the assignment period.

Must Haves

5 to 7 year(s) of experience using Test Management, Defect Tracking, Requirements Management, and Modeling tools, including automated testing tools framework experience. Good grasp and experience with automation concepts, tools, and techniques with reasonable knowledge of programming skills (preferably Python), databases (Sybase, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, Oracle etc), SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting. Experience with Cucumber (Gherkin) for BDD/collaboration and test automation purposes. Expertise in working with DevOps implementation. Experience with successful Agile/SCRUM team delivering test automation.

We are seeking a motivated individual who can provide leadership, direction, and guidance to a focused workgroup in driving execution of testing frameworks across various projects. As a member of the Operations & Technology team, you would independently lead the Testing solution and delivery of a project with successfully completing testing and should be able to lead multiple testing projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. The individual would champion quality assurance that improves test delivery processes and be a role model and mentor the junior and midlevel testers, working alongside of highly collaborative, open minded, technology savvy members.

Our Impact:

• We support Enterprise Operations & Technology Offices in delivering software with high quality early and in a continual manner.
• We provide testing solutions, capabilities, coaching and mentoring to project teams to achieve quality goals (like testing visibility, maturity and efficiency) across software delivery.

Your Impact:

• Accountable for manual testing of applications in both the pre- and post-release stage of the development lifecycle.
• Work as part of an Agile team, helping to ensure that all User Stories have a well-documented User Acceptance Criteria, and that those tests are executed within the sprint.
• Responsible for the whole software testing lifecycle (analyzing business requirements, support in preparing the test plans, creating the test cases, monitoring bugs, checking bug fixes)
• Experience in building comprehensive test plans to strategize the testing approach keeping in focus the standardized test delivery processes and best practices.
• Plan and coordinate all cycles of testing, including functional-level system tests business scenario-based testing, to ensure proper test coverage while mitigating redundancy wherever possible.
• Provide some hands-on test automation support in writing, maintaining, and improving test code with best coding practices followed.
• Provide proactive guidance, comprehensive documentation and continual assessment of function and test automation delivery across projects.
• Translate broad strategies into specific action plans, utilizing existing resources and information to achieve strategic objectives and improve business results.
• Experience with leading technical transformation within the team moving from a manual testing approach to an automation approach.
• Drive the team to become more adaptable in quality assurance through test automation, and Continuous Testing practices.

Qualifications

5 to 7 year(s) of experience using Test Management, Defect Tracking, Requirements Management, and Modeling tools, including automated testing tools framework experience. BS in Computer Science or Information Technology, or related discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience from which knowledge and skills may be obtained. Good grasp and experience with automation concepts, tools, and techniques with reasonable knowledge of programming skills (preferably Java/JavaScript/TypeScript), databases (Sybase, DB2 UDB, SQL Server, Oracle etc), SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting. Experience with Cucumber (Gherkin) for BDD/collaboration and test automation purposes. Expertise in working with DevOps implementation.

Keys to Success in this Role

Strong technical leadership background. Ability to work with and collaborate across the teams.