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TAYS is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to become a part of our vibrant team! This role will contribute to various projects within a federal agency. The role is based in Woodlawn, MD, and requires qualified candidates with robust analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, coupled with a keen attention to detail.
Opportunity:
We're on the hunt for a meticulous and skilled QA professional who's eager to play a pivotal role in testing complex distributed systems. As part of our team, you'll be intricately involved in the full life cycle of an agile project, crafting both manual and automated test scripts. Your expertise will not only drive the automation efforts but also ensure the seamless functionality of new features in every sprint. The role demands a harmonious blend of technical acumen and strong communication skills, enabling you to relay technical topics to diverse audiences and continuously engage with the customer.
While your day-to-day responsibilities will be dynamic, reflecting our client's needs, you'll be backed by a supportive team, fostering growth and innovation.
This is a permanent, W2 position and will consist of a hybrid schedule. The Test Automation Engineer must be local to the DMV area.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Designs test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy
- Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project and design and execute manual and automated test scripts
- Develop and execute maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases
- Investigate and debug test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary and provide test coverage analysis based on automation results
- Regularly leads team through preparing and estimation sessions to define acceptance criteria, ensures that the team's acceptance criteria for stories and tasks are appropriate and being met universally.
- Quality Assurance to ensure full functional testing of new features being added every sprint, as well as full regression testing for all previously implemented functionality in every sprint.
- Collaborate with development organization to understand how development changes affect ongoing Automation efforts.
- Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test object developed and test environments used
- Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics and provide weekly and monthly status to the Management.
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis.
- Roles and tasks may evolve based on customer requirements.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 5 years of relative experience, or 11 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree
- 3 years of experience in developing and maintaining automated testing framework and infrastructure
- 2 years of experience with Selenium Web driver, Selenium Grid, and SQL Server
- 1 year of experience with Unit Testing tools such as Junit, TestNG, and Cucumber
- 1 year of experience in developing automated test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, acceptance criteria, test data, investigating, and debugging test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary
- 1 year of Core Java technical expertise including JEE, Frameworks (Struts, Spring), object-oriented design and design pattern
- Must be US Citizen or US Permanent Resident (Green card holder)
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance.
Desired Qualifications:
- Experience in working in an Agile Development environment and automating application developed in Agile Development environment.
- Experience in integrating project testing with continuous integration process.
- Understanding of build tools like Maven, ANT
- Understanding of version control tools like Git, SVN
- Understanding of Continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Docker
- Understanding of AWS
- Experience in capturing and reusing automated Unit Test cases, Test Stubs and Drivers and other development test objects.
- Experience in using risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain and execute automated test suites to perform automated dynamic testing
- Prior Social Security Administration (SSA) disability experience is a plus
- Excellent team building skills, including cross-functional team building
- Proficient in MS Office, MS Visio, and SharePoint
- Experience in using VersionOne and HP Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)
- Proficient in Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Object-oriented programming skills
- Prior Federal government experience
Why TAYS is the Perfect Place for You
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- Flexibility: Enjoy a work-life harmony with our flexible working options.
- Remote Work: While our heart is in Baltimore, most of our roles support remote work.
- Benefits: Competitive packages, including tuition reimbursement.
- Leisure: Generous PTO, including 11 federal holidays and 2 floating holidays.
- Team Events: Quarterly gatherings for team bonding or community service.
- Military Friendly: We value the dedication and discipline of veterans and service members and urge them to apply.
Commitment to Diversity:
TAYS Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, parental status, veteran status, age, disability, or any other protected class.
113300.00 To 127500.00 (USD) Annually
