Tester

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You are:
The musical conductor to our automation testing efforts. Your symphony? The project. Your audience? Our clients. "Testing 1-2-3" Your mic check responsibilities include applying business requirements, Testing knowledge and technical expertise in the implementation of test automation suites to validate software application functionality. You love performing hands on design, coding, enhancing, and testing of software applications in order to meet business process requirements. Critics and audiences are wowed by how you apply your Testing knowledge and technical expertise in the automation and quality engineering efforts of every delivery. And of course, an in-depth understanding of testing, including theory and concepts are music to your ears.
The work:

• Enables full stack solutions through multi-disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle.
• Performs continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite.
• Creates automation strategy, automated scripts and supports data and environment configuration.
• Participates in code reviews, monitors, and reports defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.
• Provide expertise in the planning, constructing and execution of test scripts.
• Apply business and functional knowledge including testing standards, guidelines, and testing methodology to meet the team's overall test objectives.
• Ensure all testing results are easily accessible and understandable.
• Track defects to closure and keep defect repository up-to-date.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team.
• Perform regression testing to ensure new code doesn't introduce new defects.

Here's what you need:

• Professional work experience with automated testing tools (Worksoft Certify, HP UFT/BPT, Tricentis Tosca, or Selenium framework)
• Experience with the software development life cycle and automated testing
• Experience with API testing
• Experience in designing / developing a test automation framework
• Hands on experience with Quality Assurance/Testing (application, product, system, regression testing)
• Experience with a programming language (VB, VBScript, Java, C#, Ruby, Python)

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science
• Previous consulting experience and understanding customer/business needs
• 508 compliance experience
• Experience developing test automation scripts in Selenium and/or Cucumber
• Experience conducting automation tools analysis, selection, and recommendation
• Experience supporting test automation assessments for multiple projects
• Experience mobilizing and managing test automation projects (tools, resources, & processes)
• Experience developing automation frameworks that are leveraged across multiple resources

Eligibility Requirements:

• US Citizenship required
• Active Top Secret Security Clearance

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