QA/Automation Tester

Type of Requisition: Pipeline Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: None Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: MBI (T2) Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualifications: Skills: API Testing, Automated Testing, CI/CD Certifications: None Experience: 5 years of related experience US Citizenship Required: No Job Description: Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a QA/Automation Tester supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a QA/Automation Tester, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Quality Assurance Test Engineer joining our team to ensure that USPS Information Technology products perform properly and as expected. HOW QA TESTER/ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT Developing Automated Testing Frameworks: Designing and implementing automated testing frameworks to streamline testing processes and improve efficiency. Creating Test Scripts: Writing and maintaining automated test scripts for functional, regression, and performance testing of software applications. Integration with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and deployment. Executing Test Cases: Running automated test cases to validate software quality, identify defects, and ensure adherence to requirements. Identifying Test Scenarios: Analyzing software requirements and user stories to identify test scenarios suitable for automation. Maintaining Test Suites: Updating and enhancing automated test suites to accommodate changes in software functionality and requirements. Collaborating with Development Team: Working closely with developers to understand software design and behavior, and address issues identified during testing. Performance Testing: Conducting automated performance tests to assess application performance under various conditions and workloads. Security Testing: Implementing automated security tests to identify vulnerabilities and ensure the security of software applications. Test Reporting and Analysis: Generating test reports, analyzing test results, and communicating findings to stakeholders for decision-making. Training and Knowledge Sharing: Providing training on test automation tools and techniques to team members and sharing best practices for test automation. Maintaining Test Environments: Setting up and maintaining test environments, ensuring consistency and reliability for automated testing. Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies with entire development team to solidify understanding of requirements. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED: Education: Bachelor's Degree; OR in lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required Required Experience: Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience. Minimum 2 years of experience testing in a cloud environment, GCP preferred. Required Technical Skills: Programming Skills: Proficiency in Java, Python, or JavaScript for test script development. Test Automation Tools: Experience with Selenium, Appium, or similar tools for automated testing. API Testing: Knowledge of tools like Postman for testing application interfaces. CI/CD Integration: Ability to integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or similar tools. AI Testing: Understanding of AI testing frameworks and tools for testing machine learning models and AI-driven applications. Analytical Thinking: Strong analytical skills for test case design and result interpretation. Communication Skills: Clear communication for collaborating with team members and documenting test results. Verification of test conditions using backend systems, running SQL queries, navigating cloud storage objects, and checking service responses using tools like SoapUI. Security Clearance Level: Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years. Location: Remote GDIT IS YOUR PLACE: 401K with company match Comprehensive health and wellness packages Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications Cutting-edge technology you can learn from Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays #AutomationTester #QA #zxc726 The likely salary range for this position is $94,676 - $128,092. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range. Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Travel Required: Less than 10% Telecommuting Options: Remote Work Location: Any Location / Remote Additional Work Locations: Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most. We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 30,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. 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Salary : $94,676 - $128,092