Engineer Automated

The Candidate will perform highly advanced software test development work as part of an agile team working under the direction and guidance of Application Services management. The Candidate must have strong understanding of testing automation framework with hands-on technical experience with Automation tools and proven success designing, developing, implementing, and testing front-end applications with webservice based back-end in a large organization. The primary goal of the Candidate, as a member of an agile scrum team, will be to deliver well-designed, documented, and tested modern software applications that fully meet customer requirements. This candidate will work on Administrative Applications Team s systems.

CPA will require the Candidate to work on the following initiatives and will perform Testing tasks such as:

• Participating in all phases of Agile, including design, software development and testing.
• Automate testing of feature functionalities.
• Making sure test cases and automated test scripts are written and tested on time for frontend and backend.
• Performing functional, regression, ad-hoc, exploratory, smoke testing, integration testing and any other kind of software testing needed for the application in a timely manner.
• Test planning, test estimation, test strategy, workload design, test cases design, defect management and configuration management.
• Generate performance graphs, session reports and other related documentation required for validation and analysis.
• Execute benchmark, load, stress, and other non-functional tests.

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.

Years

Required/Preferred

Experience

6

Required

Experience in Documenting test strategy and creating detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts, verification and validation documents and quality test data to ensure all software developed meet the defined requirements prior to the production release

3

Required

Experience in automation testing for the applications designed in AWS cloud

3

Required

Experience in writing automation scripts and executing them

3

Required

Experience of software development methodologies, Agile and Scrum

3

Required

Experience in analyzing bug reports and highlight solutions to help identify fixes for them

3

Required

Experience using the following Tools: Jira, Confluence, GIT, Bitbucket

3

Required

Experience using database query: SQL

3

Required

Experience in utilizing test automation frameworks e.g. Junit/mUnit, TestNG

3

Required

Experience in developing, enhancing, updating, and maintaining suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.

3

Required

Experience in identifying test coverage gaps and improvements.

3

Required

Experience in the use of automation tools such as (such as: Selenium Webdriver, Katalon, UFT and/or API -microservices level test automation expertise Postman)

3

Required

Experience setting up automation framework using Jenkins CICD pipeline

3

Required

Experience with highly complex application security requirements

3

Preferred

Experience with Test Driven development

3

Preferred

Experience working with NOSQL database

3

Preferred

Experience working with microservice, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS

3

Preferred

Experience in programming languages such as C#, Python, SQL, .NET, JavaScript

2

Preferred

Experience with T-SQL and Stored procedures

2

Preferred

Public sector experience (Federal, State or Local Government)

CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

Must be able to:

work with Business Customers, Section Managers, Scrum Masters, Product Owners and team members in a professional and collaborative manner to define strategies, implementation approaches and provide creative solutions to complex problems.

create well-designed, documented, and tested software solutions that meet strict availability, concurrency and low latency requirements.

support multiple scrum delivery teams with estimation for testing software applications.

perform layered application testing across multiple platform environments.

estimate the testing activities accurately to ensure that the production deployments are not impacted by testing schedules.

assist in the creation, preparation, development and execution of test strategies, test plans and test analysis.

document test strategy and create detailed test plans, test cases, test scripts and quality test data to ensure all software developed meet the defined requirements prior to the production release.

develop, enhance, update and maintain suite of automated test scripts for regression testing of applications.

participate in the design and planning of automation for applications.

identify test scenarios to automate testing, including critical path, high risk functionality, tests prone to human error, tests that require multiple data sets, tests that take more time to perform manually and tests that are repetitive.

work with development teams to create, monitor, and measure (Efficacy, Reliability, Timing).

Must possess:

a solid understanding of software design, development and analysis of software.

knowledge of working in an agile development environment and follow agile processes and procedures.

knowledge of software development methodologies and frameworks, including Agile and Scrum

strong knowledge of .NET, C#, microservices, REST

strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills

strong problem-solving skills and ability to multi-task with readiness to put in extra effort when necessary

familiarity with DevOps concepts and methodologies

ability to create detailed road maps to guide automation projects from conception to final implementation

the willingness to learn