Test Automation Engineer

Location: Calverton, MD, us

Company Description

Comtech is a woman-owned small business founded in 1998 and headquartered in Reston, VA. We offer IT solutions across the disciplines of program/project management, applications development, infrastructure, Cyber security, and enterprise content/data management services. We have developed our methodologies and processes based on the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) v.3 Framework across enterprise infrastructure operations. These methodologies and processes are reinforced through our organization’s externally accredited certifications, which include ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System (QMS), ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 IT Service Management Systems (SMS, corporate ITIL certification), ISO 27001:2005 Information Security Management System (ISMS), and CMMI-DEV Level 3"

Job Description

Candidate must have a background in test automation, Web Application front-end development, or Siebel. Candidates with previous experience on Agile teams especially within Government agencies will be well suited for this position.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with developers, professional services team and product managers to define the automated testing components that will be used to validate requirements against developed software 
  
• Work with team members in adopting and learning test automation techniques 
  
• Assist with Scrum Team estimation of stories and sizing of effort to include the representation of the test automation and engagement with Continuous Integration (CI) required 
  
• Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations’ Agile project life cycle 
  
• Execute automated testing on both Web Front end and back end systems 
  
• Run test validations at various levels including DB validation, rules validation, logging validation, and UI validation
  

Qualifications

Minimum skills and qualifications:

• Candidate must have minimum 1 year of hands on automated test coding experience
  
• Candidate must be a team player and work closely with other automation developers to build/support Automation Framework 
  
• Candidate should have experience on automation results analysis and generate automation result reports 
  
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly 
  
• Previous experience with automation tools such as JUnit, SOAPUI, Selenium (WebDriver) 
  
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing Agile environment 
  
• Must have knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD), Automated Testing (GUI and backend), User Acceptance Testing 
  
• Strong written and communication skills 
  
• Professional consulting experience and background beneficial 
  
• Proven strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive implementation experience 
  
• Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills 
  
• Must be flexible in working with team members at all levels of experience 

Preferred skills and qualifications:

• Key technology experience in areas such as Java and/or C#, J2EE, XML, and SOA, REST, JSON, Siebel
  
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration tools (Open Source or commercially available such as Bamboo or Jenkins) 
  
• Experience with a wide variety of testing tools and techniques that are commercially available or that are Open Source (examples: HP’s QTP, JUnit, Selenium-WebDriver, Geb, Cucumber, and Spock) 
  
• Experience with Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing phases
  

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