Overview

　　Are you inquisitive? Thorough? Diplomatic? Ever worked as part of a program that is Agile? Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence?

　　Steampunk is seeking an Automated Quality Assurance (QA) Tester who will provide testing and QA expertise in mission critical work across our client base.

　　Responsibilities will include testing and verification of code, reporting and recording defects, coordination with architects, functional analysts, and developers on testing and testing results, documenting test scripts, participating in design reviews, user acceptance testing, and deployment activities. This individual will also work in an Agile environment and participate in scrum ceremonies and product planning activities.

　　Contributions

　　As an Automated Quality Assurance Tester , you will work with our growingDevSecOpspracticedelivering quality assurance services to support application,cloudand data systems development.Responsibilities include:

　　Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

　　Meet with product design team todeterminetesting 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

　　Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation

　　Providevalidation testing ofdifferentsystem and data sets for cloud migrations

　　Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency

　　Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes

　　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 tooptimizetesting software systems

　　Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools

　　Engineer and implement solutions andproviderecommendations for continuous improvement for the servicesprovided

　　Present regular status updates andprovidecross training to other DevSecOps team members

　　Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

　　Qualifications

　　Required:

　　U.S. Citizen

　　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

　　At least 4 years of total experience

　　3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

　　3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages

　　3 Years of applicationDevSecOpsExperience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment

　　Experienceutilizingdocker containers andutilizingplatforms such as Kubernetes

　　3 Years of Experience implementingtest automation, using tools such asSelenium, Appium, Soap UI,RestAssured, Postman

　　Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines

　　Experience with performance and load testing

　　Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g.AWS, Azure, or GCP)

　　Preferred:

　　Certifications:

　　CAST (CertifiedAssociate in SoftwareTesting)

　　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 preferred

　　About steampunk

　　Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology , we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company , we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http://www.steampunk.com .

　　We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.

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　　Job Location US-VA-McLean

　　Posted Date 5 days ago (1/22/2024 3:13 PM)

　　Job ID 5058

　　Clearance Requirement Public Trust