Manual Test Engineer

Steampunk•McLean, VA

9d•$90,000 - $130,000

About The Position

As a Manual Test Engineer, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years' experience with quality assurance in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.

Requirements

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
4+ years of manual testing experience
3+ years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
3+ years of application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
Experience with performance and load testing
Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Experience with the Atlassian tool suite, to include JIRA, JIRA AIO Tests, and Confluence

Nice To Haves

Certifications:
CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal, and collaborative skills
Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
Salesforce experience
Automation testing experience

Responsibilities

Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
Manage test data architecture definition and requests
Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:
Data validation testing
Functional testing
Performance and load testing
Usability testing
Accessibility (508) testing
Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members
Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members