Junior Automation Tester Remote

Junior Automation Tester (Remote)

Active IRS MBI Clearance is highly desirable.

To be considered for work A CANDIDATE MUST BE EITHER A U.S. CITIZEN OR PERMANENT RESIDENT ALIEN (No H1 visa holders). A CANDIDATE MUST ALSO HAVE A BACHELORS DEGREE.

Statement of Work:

Business Master File Modernization (BMF Mod) is one of multiple programs created to modernize the Internal Revenue Services (IRS) the legacy Tax processing systems and is critical to the IRS IT Application Development (AD) and IRS IT Enterprise Service (ES) organizations goal to support the objectives of the IRS IT Modernization Business Plan. BMF Mods initiative will modernize IRS systems and processes improve taxpayer experience increase voluntary compliance and reduce the Services reliance on costly and unsustainable legacy technology.

Task Description:

Provide support and assistance to design development integrate test and deploy a modernized BMF platform and also support daytoday Operations & Maintenance (O&M) work based on IRS priorities. Provide for project management O&M development modernization enhancements software development legislative changes and developmental O&M upgrades.

Seeking a Junior Automation Tester with experience building and executing automated test cases for SOA cloud based application following BDD/TDD frameworks for test development and execution using automation across the test delivery. Seeking someone with intermediate level skills and experience in testing webAPI testing JAVA Python programming knowledge automation testing tools and core testing cycle along with good depth in business domain/processes in Agile CICD delivery. Responsibilities include:

• Automate testing across the application SOA architecture at UI API Services Microservices Performance Data Integration and layers across technologies cloud based application Web / Desktop Cloud Browsers Client server.
• Understand functional requirements design optimized test scenarios Test modelling concepts identify the test cases and code these to be integrated with application code and CICD DevOps pipeline for continuous test case creation automated test execution for functional performance integration test and reporting.
• Work along with team to build optimized test scenarios develop models and BDD/TDD framework for developing test cases develop automation execute test cases resolve technical issues manage defect cycle mentor and enable skills of the team and to provide technical direction to the team.
• Experience and skills in core automated testing webAPI services testing technical testing business domain testing method/tools in Agile methodologies and CICD delivery.

Required skills/Level of Experience:

At least 3 years experience with the following:

• Experienced with automated testing for SOA cloudbased application for functional integration Web services Microservices Web API Regression Performance and volume testing
• Experience or expertise using managing and/or testing API Gateway tools and Rest APIs
• Experienced with test automation frameworks and tools e.g. JUnit TestNG Selenium SOAP UI ReadyAPI Parasoft SOAtest w/Loadtest LOADRUNNER GitHub Eggplant Subject7 JIRA JMETER IBM Rational tools RFT EWM ELM ETM
• Knowledge in installing configuring troubleshooting testing software licensing security certificates and applying changes to build test architecture for integration regression and performance testing
• Experience in writing test steps/cases/data from team discussions and use cases
• Experience with Agile development Kanban boards and DevOps practices
• Experience with developing and executing automated testing and configuring testing tools and test execution
• Design develop and maintain automated test scripts
• Create and enhance test cases ensuring comprehensive coverage of functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure testability and maintainability.
• Collaborate with developers business analysts and quality assurance teams to understand requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Identify and report defects track their resolution and verify fixes.
• Perform regression testing to validate software changes.
• Promote best practices for test automation including maintainable code reusable components and efficient test data management.
• Execute automated tests as part of the continuous integration and delivery pipeline
• Experience working in cloud environment and Maestro suite (JIRA and Confluence)
• Experience in testing technologies such as REST APIs and Apache Kafka
• Experienced working in Agile teamwork CICD (continuous integrationcontinuous development) delivery
• Take initiative in writing unit tests and actively contribute to enhancing the existing testing frameworks and methodologies.
• Execute regression test scripts within a QA environment in a manual and automatic fashion to support scheduled and unscheduled releases.
• Perform analysis of document report escalate triage and resolve issues / defects / bugs found during testing
• Cyber security concepts and testing a plus (SSL TLS digital certificates) for vulnerability and enhancement testing

Education

Bachelors degree in computer science information technology or related field.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Headquartered in Leesburg Virginia Zenius Corporation is a HUBZonecertified small business. Zenius specializes in providing Grants Management IT Modernization Acquisition Management and Financial Management services to Federal agencies. Zenius is selected by Inc 5000 as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the DC Metro Area award for two years in a row 2021 and 2020. Zenius is also listed by Financial Times as one of the fastestgrowing companies in the Americas in 2021. Zenius is an awardee of 2019 Best of Leesburg winner (Business Management Consultant category).

BENEFITS

Zenius Corporation is a very employeeoriented company. Join us now and help us grow!

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes paid holidays and paid time off medical insurance including health vision dental insurance 401K matching Flexible Spending Account and flexible schedules as per business needs. We also work with our employees on training and professional certification plans that benefit the employee.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER:

Zenius Corporation provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age disability genetic information marital status amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws. Zenius complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including but not limited to hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Zenius Corporation expressly prohibits any form of unlawful employee harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status.