Automation Tester Ashburn, VA

In this hands on position, you will work collaboratively to architect, design, build, deliver, and enhance highly available, scalable, real time systems. You will exercise your judgment in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines and other resource constraints. You will participate in and/or direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle including scope and work estimation, architecture and design, coding and unit testing. This role will support test planning and execution on an exciting new technology program from requirements definition through flight testing.

**This position REQUIRES onsite support in Ashburn, VA, 2 times a week**

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance during a significant project in designing, coding, testing, debugging, and maintaining program.

• Translating and interpreting functional requirements into test cases.

• Maintain test environment and install new software code as necessary as needed to support applications

• Develop and use automated test

• Perform regression testing, covering full suite of Operational Test Scenarios for builds and/or images to be delivered to customer.

• Develop detailed test plans, test data and define test acceptance criteria.

• Prepare test report summarizing test results including anomalies, systems errors, and configuration changes.

• Support the software configuration management process and understand software components and their interface requirements.

• Verify specific action or function of code and demonstrate successfully to customer.

• Assist the software development team in the implementation of automated regression testing.

• Support Customer Demonstration, data prep and UAT activities

Basic Qualifications

• BS/BA degree with a minimum of 6+ years of relevant experience or 5+ years of relevant experience with Masters Degree; OR 4 years of directly related experience in lieu of degree

• Must be a US Citizen

• Must be able to maintain and obtain a CBP Background Investigation prior to start

• Test data management and testing automation

• Technical expertise including knowledge of in Java and Database programming languages

• Experience with DevOps, continuous integration tools and source control tools

• Experience with agile development and testing methodologies

• The ability to work on a multidisciplinary team

• Experience in test automation tools like Selenium, SoapUI, scripting, performance, load and scanning capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree

• Active CBP BI

• Experience with CBP

• Knowledge of JUnit

• Experience on AWS, CI/CD, SecDevOps

• Splunk, Splunk Processing Language (SPL), setting up Splunk dashboard