Software Quality Assurance Specialist

Overview

SAIC is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Specialist to support the verification that developed software meets the specified requirements and produces the desired result, combined with ensuring any defects are identified and documented. The supported Customer provides state of the art systems on cloud and applications based on products such as AWS, Oracle, SharePoint, and other web-based solutions. If you have skills in building test cases based on use case development methodologies as well as knowledge and experience with automated testing, then this is the job for you!

This position is located in McLean, VA and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the various application teams to develop, perform and support manual and automated integration and regression testing.
• Develop, perform and support post deployment validation of components.
• Develop and maintain test plans and scripts to identify software problems and causes.
• Provide analysis and recommendations for automation of test suites.
• Develop automated scripts to decrease the time needed to perform testing.
• Develop automated scripts to decrease the likelihood of bugs or unplanned outages.
• Work with applications in a cloud environment.
• Participate in formal and informal reviews at pre-determined points throughout the development cycle.
• Write test cases and scenarios.
• Develop and execute test plans, procedures and scenarios for regression, performance, process, functional, system integration and Agile (deliverable) acceptance testing to ensure new applications and software modifications meet requirements and perform satisfactorily in the system environment.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree and 9 years or more experience; Master’s degree with 7 years or more experience.
• Demonstrated experience with the development of test cases as part of an agile team.
• Experience using a test automation framework.
• Ability to use test automation tools.
• Ability to use an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for development and execution of test scripts.
• Ability to manage testing for multiple applications during concurrent development cycles.
• Experience with Regression, Integration, API, or Functional testing.
• Ability to develop and manage test plans and cases.
• Experience using JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint.
• Ability to brief technical topics to a non-technical audience.