Are you inquisitive? Thorough? Diplomatic? Ever worked as part of a program that is Agile? Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence?
Steampunk is looking for you to join our team as a SeniorAutomatedQuality Assurance Tester. You'll implement automation for increased efficiency and provide hands-on testing and QA expertise in mission critical work across our client base.
As a SeniorAutomated Quality Assurance Tester, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. Responsibilities include
Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
Manage test data architecture definition and requests
Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following
Data validation testing
Functional testing
Performance and load testing
Usability testing
Accessibility (508) testing
Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevSecOps team members
Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members
Required
Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
5 Years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
5 Years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
5 Years of application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
5 Years of experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
Experience with performance and load testing
Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)
Preferred
Certifications
CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)
International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred
Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http//www.steampunk.com.
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Quality Assurance
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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