Software Development Engineer in Test

Principal Responsibilities

• Act as a testing liaison to Application Development Organizations and Federal Government Agency stakeholders
• Envision and implement flexible new testing approaches in support of Agile/DevOps development efforts
• Automate testing whenever possible
• Communicate with a variety of stakeholders including federal government and partner application development organizations
• Collect and review quantitative and qualitative data related to software testing and development activities for measurement and analysis
• Provide technical and testing leadership to other members of the team
• Help increase productivity through continuous process improvements
• Understand applications from both a technical and business perspective

Required Skills/Experience

• Software Development Engineering hands on, current experience, expert development skills and thought leader
• Excellent organizational, verbal and written communication skills and comfortable presenting to large groups of various levels of an organization
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation, facilitation, analytical, problem-solving, influencing, prioritization, decision-making and conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work well in a fast paced environment under deadlines in a changing environment
• Demonstrate thorough understanding of automated testing framework, technologies and strategies
• Ability to successfully execute many complex tasks simultaneously
• Must have strong analytical abilities
• Knowledge of software test engineering
• Proven problem-solving skills
• Ability to multitask over multiple projects
• Must be able to understand business needs
• Exhibit excellent attention to detail
• Must have 1-2 years’ experience with Selenium & Cucumber
• At least a year of Testing and Development experience, plus a college degree
• Proven success developing excellent working relationships with clients and teaming partners
• Possess a technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations (DevOps), monitoring and management tools and deployment processes and tools
• Knowledge and/or experience with widely successful Agile techniques: User Stories, ATDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, Pairing and Automated Testing
• Experience with manual and automated testing of web-based software
• Experience working with multiple development organizations or teams
• Experience supporting testing in an Agile environment
• Experience in a variety of Agile frameworks
• Experience in a DevOps environment
• Experience in a cloud environment, such as Amazon Web Services
• Experience with DevOps / Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment
• Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) Testing and Agile related certifications

Preferred Experience 

• Experience with Ruby
• Passionate about staying current on trends and best practices in software development and testing tools
• Experience with developing automation test scripts
• Experience with SoapUI testing tools
• Experience with SQL scripting
• Working knowledge of web application programming, API, databases and system design
• Working knowledge of source control tools such as Git, SVN, and TFS
• Working knowledge of build/release tools such as Jenkins and Nexus
• Working knowledge of programming languages such as C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, etc.
• Working knowledge of testing tools such as Testrail, JAWS, NVDA, Chromelens, Sortsite, Screener.io, Wave and Allure
• Working knowledge of collaboration and communication tools such as JIRA, HipChat, Swagger and Confluence
• Dynamic and Static Security Testing; continuous vulnerability testing
• Performance testing (i.e., LoadRunner, Jmeter)
• Accessibility (508) testing
• Visibility testing Experience
• Functional testing Experience
• Integration testing Experience
• User Story test coverage metrics and automated dashboards