Job Summary:

　　A Test Automation Engineer is part of a team supporting our NIWC – US Navy customer on the Maintenance Figure of Merit (MFOM) program. The team provides software design, development, implementation, and operations expertise to the customer. As a Test Automation Engineer, you work with a team of Developers, Cloud and Network Engineers supporting one or more enterprise applications. You will identify, communicate, and resolve technical issues that are important in all aspects of this role. 

　　As with any position, additional expectations exist, which include, but are not limited to:

　　Adhering to typical working hours

　　Meeting deadlines

　　Following company policies as outlined by the Employee Handbook

　　Communicating regularly with assigned supervisor

　　Staying focused on the assigned tasks

　　Completing other tasks as assigned

　　Responsibilities:

　　The ability to design, develop and execute test automation scripts.

　　Knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development. (TDD) concepts.

　　Knowledge of CI/CD workflows, Jenkins, Jira, Bitbucket or any other Git Tools.

　　Experience in the development of test frameworks from scratch, e.g. Katalon, Robot Framework, Cucumber, SpecFlow.

　　Work closely with product management, development, delivery, and support teams, ensuring that testing of new and existing functionality is automated as quickly as possible and that the complete automated regression test suite is run continuously.

　　Create detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test plans and test cases for deployment to test environments.

　　Participate in the SAFe Agile Scrum team environment with a focus on planning and delivering changes iteratively.

　　Work closely with Product Owners/Business Analysts, Managers, and Agile Teams to understand the product requirements and user stories to deliver high quality software on schedule for production releases.

　　Determine the priority for test scenarios and create execution plans to implement these scenarios.

　　Applying Designing and Test Automation Strategy Document.

　　Creating an automation test plan and getting approval.

　　Creating, Enhancing, Debugging and Running Test Cases.

　　Organizing, monitoring defect management process handling changes and conducting regression tests.

　　Find solutions for issues related to object identity issues and error handling.

　　Coordination of the members of the Test team and the development team to solve the issues.

　　Create a software defect tracking report of the entire project release status to stakeholders.

　　Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

　　Basic Qualifications:

　　Must have an active DOD Secret Clearance.

　　Must have Level 1 or higher IAT Certification (A+ CE, Security+, CCNA-Security, CND, Network+ CE, SSCP).

　　Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in Information Systems, Computer Science, or another related field.

　　Demonstrated experience working with development tools like Jira, Jama, Confluence.

　　Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.

　　Demonstrated organizational skills and attention to detail.

　　Demonstrated ability to communicate well with peers and leadership.

　　Preferred Qualifications:

　　3-5 years Automation experience is required.

　　Demonstrated hands-on with test automation in the following languages (one or several): Java/C#/Python/JavaScript.

　　Demonstrated Experience in building test automation frameworks from scratch.

　　Demonstrated ISTQB Foundation, Advanced Test Automation certification.

　　Cloud certification.

　　The compensation range for this position: $75k - $90k annually.

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