Automation Tester

Tester (Automation)

Marathon TS is looking for a Tester (Automation) to our Federal Customer. Responsibilities include participating in scrum planning and other brainstorming sessions, providing feedback to user story requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation estimates. You will automate test cases, design and implement BDD automated test cases to ensure highest code quality, and participate in the creation/maintenance of the Selenium framework used for BDD testing. You will also triage defects, prepare test data and scenarios for automated test cases, collaborate with all team members to deliver quality product and meet the Sprint goals, manage the complete software development process from conception to deployment in an Agile environment, drive automated testing and providing feedback to team leadership during the development process, support both DevOps and new feature development, and document and maintain software functionality.

Qualifications include a minimum of 5 years of IT experience with focus on testing/QC and test automation, a minimum of 3-4 years of hands-on experience using BDD and test automation frameworks – such as Selenium, Cucumber/Gherkin, experience in writing SQL queries for analysis and manipulation of data, experience with large scale, high performance enterprise systems and application development projects, willingness to grow skills and capabilities, and excellent communication skills.

Desired skills and tools experience include strong aptitude and the desire to quickly learn and get to speed, programming experience in any high-level language like Java or Python, experience testing scalable applications using the micro-service pattern in a cloud environment, experience with the following stack of tools (or their close equivalents): AWS Cloud, Docker/Kubernetes, Nexus, Git, Jenkins CI/CD, AngularJS. MongoDB, Oracle RDBMS, Linux/Ubuntu, Jira, Java with Spring MVC/REST/Data/Boot/Security, Junit and JPA, microservice architecture, experience developing in a SaFe Agile environment, experience with message queueing design patterns experience across various Integration patterns – API, Real time Integration, Event broker / Advanced messaging.

Marathon TS is committed to the development of a creative, diverse and inclusive work environment. In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Marathon TS will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Marathon TS does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as "protected status").