Platform Engineer/ Automation Tester

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Professional Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Automated Testing, Automation Frameworks, Automation Technology

Certifications:

None

Experience:

5 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented platform engineer / automation test engineer to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Case Management Systems Office (CMSO) in its modernization effort for one of its mission-critical applications that is used by all U.S. district and appellate courts’ staff members and external stakeholders. Over 59 million cases are managed on current systems with more than 1 million unique users. CMSO has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOUSC mission.

The senior automation tester will have following responsibilities:

• Evaluate and understand system requirements and capabilities for test automation
• Setup and configure test automation framework in the cloud environment
• Facilitate continuous development and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
• Work with manual testers to ensure that automation prioritized to get maximum value
• Design, develop and run automated test scripts in the cloud
• Comply with established version control and coding standards
• Developing test procedures to validate and verify requirements and capabilities
• Configure test environments and test data set
• Understanding of software lifecycle management skills related to application development tasks and planning testing cycles
• Ability to apply in-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle in order to help anticipate complexities in the system
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Experience with modern web client technologies and the associated front-end to backend interactions
• Developing/testing software using an Agile/Scrum methodology

Qualifications:
 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline
• 5+ years of experience developing automated test scripts on ReactJS and NodeJS Nodejs with Selenium, Playwright, jest, mocha, chai etc
• 5+ years of experience in setup and configurion test automation framework in the cloud environment (AWS / Azure).
• Experience testing API’s though gateway and cloud services
• Expert knowledge in industry standards cloud based test automation frameworks
• Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Ability to independently setup and configure test automation framework in cloud (Azure or AWS)
• Demonstrated experience in implementing DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
• Experienced in testing containerized applications utilizing docker, k8s, Openshift etc.
• Managing and executing tests using NUnit and TestNG
• Experience in developing test plans/procedures, expected outcomes, and verification statements
• Comprehensive understanding of Cloud, Agile & DevSecOps methodology and culture
• Working knowledge of Source Version Control and Build/Release tools and methodologies. Working knowledge of Software Build process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience in developing automated test scripts for complex Java based web applications

The likely salary range for this position is $81,349 - $109,250. 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:

None

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.

 

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About Our Work:

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