Senior Test Automation Engineer

eSimplicity•Columbia, MD

12d•Remote

About The Position

eSimplicity is a modern digital services company that partners with government agencies to improve the lives and protect the well-being of all Americans, from veterans and service members to children, families, and seniors. Our engineers, designers, and strategists cut through complexity to create intuitive products and services that equip federal agencies with solutions to courageously transform today for a better tomorrow. We’re seeking a Software Tester with experience in rapid design and development techniques to respond to customer demands for meeting the challenges of government healthcare directives.

Requirements

All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government. This requires candidates to either be U.S. citizens or pass clearance through the Foreign National Government System which will require that candidates have lived within the United States for at least 3 out of the previous 5 years, have a valid and non-expired passport from their country of birth and appropriate VISA/work permit documentation.
Minimum of 8 years previous Test Automation Engineer experience with at least 4 years of that preformation software testing performance, functional, behavioral, API, and 508).
A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or other related scientific or technical discipline; OR In lieu of a degree, ten years of general information technology experience and at least eight years of specialized experience may be substituted.
Experience with Agile methodologies.
Experience with Atlassian Jira/Confluence.
Strong analytical skills and innovative thinking.
Demonstrated experience working on large integration systems and executing large-scale projects with large data sets from conception through implementation.
Excellent command of written and spoken English.

Nice To Haves

Strong knowledge and experience in software development in an agile environment.
Strong experience with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and/or Medicaid CHIP data.
Test automation experience on data-centric application and systems; Experienced creating test data for complex (healthcare, preferred) datasets such as provider, beneficiary/patient, quality measures and claims data; Experienced testing APIs; Experienced conducting User Acceptance Testing with users, collecting inputs from users, and supporting users with potential workaround.

Responsibilities

Develops, implements, and maintains quality assurance/configuration management programs in support of a variety of software, hardware, and services.
Establish standards for life cycle, documentation, development methods, testing, and maintenance.
Develops and defines major and minor characteristics of quality/ configuration management (including metrics and scoring parameters) and determines requisite quality control/configuration management resources for an actual task order.
Conducts or participates in formal and informal reviews at predetermined points throughout the system life cycle.
Serve as liaison between Program Management and other functional groups to resolve issues regarding quality assurance/configuration management.
Reviews and evaluates software products and services for adherence to government directives, standards, and guidelines.
May provide daily supervision and direction to support staff.
Attend requirements gathering meetings to better understand business needs, functional and system requirements
Produce detailed testing documents, including a testing plan, test cases, test data, and test scripts to automate and rapidly perform testing iteratively.
Develop testing status reporting tools and methods that will allow stakeholders at various levels to quickly assess the system status of their focused area and drill down to get details as needed
Collaborate with the development and analyst to ensure implementation of the needed business, functional, and system requirements
Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments.
Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity.
Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve.
Constantly refine and stay current with emerging themes in larger Medicare policy and provider community.
Perform Behavior-Driven Development Testing, API testing, and systems compliance testing?