Test Engineer - Automation

rockITdata, a veteran, minority, and woman-owned small business certified by the NWBOC, is a full-service consulting provider that specializes in providing management and IT services. We help companies build efficiencies, decrease cost, and drive better outcomes. We achieve these goals by leveraging industry leading cloud based artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.
We bring four distinct offerings to Commercial; Federal; and State, Local, and Education clients.

• Management Consulting: We provide advisory services to design, manage, and execute lasting change, leveraging trusted relationships and industry expertise in strategy, organizational transformation, operations, operational excellence, innovation, risk and compliance, human capital, and workforce optimization.
• AI, Data & Analytics: Deploying advanced AI and ML solutions, business analytics to extract actionable insight, data engineering for data warehousing, real-time processing and integrated quality data and platform architecture focusing on cloud and hybrid solutions, security and solution selection and integration. 
• IT Transformation: Delivering technology services, covering application lifecycle management, CRM implementation, systems integration, rockITCX contact center solutions, product resale, and IT infrastructure management. Our approach ensures seamless operations and enhanced customer engagement, optimizing technology investments for diverse businesses. 
• Mission Support: Specializing in System Engineering Technical Assistance and operations support services to streamline system integration and optimization while ensuring operational excellence for modern enterprises.

Job Description
Test Engineer manages testing activities; coordinates the development and execution of test plans; documents, implements, monitors, and enforces all processes and procedures for testing; assigns testing tasks within the testing team; facilitates communications between the development and testing teams; verifies readiness of release through release review process; obtains customer signature on deliverables; reviews and approves contractor test plans; drafts testing reports and forwards to Project Managers, Activity Project Managers, and Contract Project Managers; and prepares QA reports for release ready builds. Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills are essential to this role. 
 Key Responsibilities

• Conduct functional, system, integration, regression testing of software applications to identify bugs and issues.
• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on software requirements and technical specifications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirement compliance through verification and validation.
• Record test results and prepare detailed defect reports for developers.
• Working knowledge in Automation frameworks, developing, designing, and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), any one of behavior driven development (BDD) or Test-driven development (TDD frameworks like Cucumber).
• Help improve the quality assurance process by contributing to process improvement efforts.
• Actively engage in user acceptance testing (UAT) in coordination with end-users.
• Analyze test results and provide recommendations to improve software performance.
• Conducts readiness for system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities.
• Familiarity with Confluence, JIRA, and test case management systems for creating test artifacts and reporting for leadership.
  

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of relevant experience, 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related scientific or technical discipline
• Experience collaborating with developers, end users and organizations to create test plans and test scripts.
• Experience with configuring necessary hardware and operating environments as needed to complete assigned testing.
• Experience in writing or assisting in the development of test plans and test procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of VA VISTA systems and VA financial systems
• Knowledge in testing functionality, matching to requirements, and in having primary responsibility for individual projects and systems.
• Current and prior experience on Selenium with JAVA programming language in BDD framework
• Strong understanding of DevOps method and continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts and practices.
• Experience working in an Agile scrum solution development and testing environment.
• Obtain and maintain a VA Public Trust (Moderate Risk) clearance.

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