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Job Description:
Parsons is seeking for a Sr. Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Tester. This candidate will collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to create test plans that identify software problems and their causes. Successful candidates must have the ability to communicate effectively with technical team members, managers, and customers.
What You'll Be Doing:
- The Software Quality Assurance Engineer/Tester will work collaboratively as part of a model-based system engineering team and will provide test plans and software automation engineering expertise to deliver incremental features to a wide range of products
- Design, develop, and integrate test and evaluation techniques into our automation frameworks, identify poor performing software and implement fixes to increase reliability, log defects, test scalability of systems, and provides status reports on the progress of tasks
- Advise and build automation scripts (unit, integration, end-to-end, UI) ensuring code coverage and quality
- Create, execute, improve, and maintain automation test scripts through standard methodologies, closely monitor test results for swift feedback, and participate in peer code reviews
- Advocate and evangelize good testing practices and coding methodologies, like pair programming, code reviews, Test Driven Development (TDD), DevSecOps, Exploratory Testing, Behaviour-Driven Development, Continuous Integration (CI), and Continuous Delivery (CD)
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- Solid programming background, experience with C, C++, Java, J2SE, XML, Visual Basic Suite including Visual Source Safe, J Builder or similar
- Strong grasp of computer science fundamentals, algorithms and data structures, Object Oriented programming, and implementing security into software early in the development process
- Experience with the Windows Development Environment, Windows Client, and other commonly used programming languages
- Experience conducting end-to-end testing of large or complex system of systems
- Experience analyzing performance, security, availability, stability, and efficiency of systems
- Experience validating and verifying application functionality against customer specified requirements.
- Good understanding of QA methodologies and strong 'hands on' experience developing test scripts for functional, performance, and regression testing that include automated, ad-hoc, and manual testing elements
What Required Skills You'll Bring:
- A Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with 12 years of work-related experience
- A Master’s degree in a STEM discipline with 10 years of work-related experience
- In lieu of a STEM degree Bachelor’s degree, a minimum of 16 years of work-related experience is required.
- TS/SCI with Polygraph
What Desired Skills You'll Bring:
- USCYBERCOM experience
- Experience with virtualization technologies (VMWare, Xen, OpenStack, VirtualBox)
- Experience developing automated test harnesses
- Experience with RVTM, FAT, Acceptance Testing, and other formal testing procedures and documentation
- Understanding and experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Top Secret SCI w/Polygraph
This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.
Our Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our diverse, intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.
Salary Range:
$148,400.00 - $267,100.00
Parsons is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the workplace. Diversity is ingrained in who we are, how we do business, and is one of our company’s core values. Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels for minority, female, disabled, protected veteran and LGBTQ+.
We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!
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What We Do
Parsons is a digitally enabled solutions provider with a focus on making the world safer, smarter, healthier, more sustainable, and more connected. Founded in 1944, Parsons primarily serves the defense, security, and infrastructure markets. Uniquely qualified to deliver cyber/converged security, technology-based intellectual property, and other innovative services, the corporation delivers state-of-the-art solutions to federal, regional, and local government agencies as well as to private industrial customers worldwide. Parsons has a reputation for inclusion and diversity and has been named to the Ethisphere Institute’s list of World’s Most Ethical Companies for 10 consecutive years. Parsons facilitates a culture of innovation by encouraging collaboration among its employees and providing opportunities for career growth. With offices around the globe, people of varied talents and backgrounds, and a wide range of exciting projects, the possibilities at Parsons are endless. For more about Parsons, visit www.parsons.com.
Mission: Delivering innovative infrastructure, defense, and security solutions to enable a more sustainable, safer, smarter, and more connected world.
