Senior Cloud Regression / Performance QA Tester (Remote)

*We are open to supporting 100% remote work anywhere within the US*

ICF is seeking a highly motivated Senior Cloud Regression / Performance QA Tester to support digital solutions for various Federal clients, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The QA analyst will support our NIH projects by collaborating and working with a cross-functional team, performing testing and verification/validation activities for Cloud and Systems Engineering projects and deliveries. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working with cross-disciplinary teams.

What you’ll be doing:

Manage and support daily work requests for one or more project teams by:

• Support automated and/or manual software application testing, including writing test cases, authoring test code, running test frameworks and scripts, and creating test reports.

• Design, develop, document, and maintain automated functional test cases and other test artifacts, including test data and data verification.

• Build automation framework and re-usable automation tests/test scripts using Selenium.

• Execute and evaluate manual and automated test cases and report test results.

• Perform setup, configuration, and maintenance of automated testing environments, focusing on continuous testing and DevOps processes.

• Analyze requirements and technical design documents for use cases/user stories, create test cases, and perform impact analysis on the existing framework.

• Support the management and deployment of applications in AWS or GCP cloud environments.

• Use Jira to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies.

• Take part in backlog grooming and sprint planning and work with the project team to identify risks/impacts to the system.

• Perform various types of testing including automated, functional, and regression testing on cloud and systems engineering projects and activities.

• Work with systems and cloud engineers to perform root-cause analysis and preliminary problem diagnosis.

• Execute test cases and identify and track defects with clear steps to reproduce.

• Work with the scrum team to analyze user stories and write test scripts using Gherkin syntax.

• Conduct demos or training necessary for the successful execution of the project

• Participate in a wide variety of systems engineering disciplines including, but not limited to, business analysis, safety risk management, reliability/maintainability/availability engineering, information systems security, independent validation, and verification

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of experience in various types of testing including front-end, regression, and performance testing on web-based applications.

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience with testing and validating SaaS platforms, cloud (e.g.: AWS, GCP), and on-prem solutions from a system engineering perspective to ensure the solution meets customer needs

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience writing UI automated tests using Selenium Web Driver with Java, Cucumber abstraction layer

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience integrating automation tests into CI pipelines

• 2+ years of demonstrated experience documenting and tracking defects and tests in JIRA and creating test plans for code promotion through tiered environments

• US Citizen or Green Card Holder due to federal contract requirements 

• Ability to obtain U.S. government public trust clearance

• MUST RESIDE IN THE United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.), as this work is for a federal contract and laws do apply 

Desired Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline from an accredited university

•  Agile Scrum methods

• Good understanding of basic system technologies as they relate to the project deliverables 

• Experience with business process mapping and the use of project management software 

• Excellent oral and written communication skills 

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and time-management skills

• Excellent attention to detail

• Ability to work independently and within one or more teams with excellent time management, organizational, and reporting skills

• Skilled at analyzing existing system documentation to summarize existing system functionality as it relates to the project at hand 

• 1+ years leading or mentoring teams

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Working at ICF

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$76,848.00 - $130,642.00

Nationwide Remote Office (US99)