Automated Test Engineer - US Citizenship Required
Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in IT? Join us and unleash your potential while securing enterprise systems and applications to meet our client's mission needs. As an Automated Test Engineer, you will identify acceptance criteria required by the business stakeholder, test environment, and test readiness requirements, develop automated testing scripts, conduct testing activities using automated testing tools, and provide the status of testing in the course of a 2-week Sprint cycle. Your Role
- Work closely with the application architects to develop a solid testing solution, working towards the future state of the application architecture that includes automated testing for continuous integration.
- Lead complex test automation efforts using Cucumber/Selenium and Java for large Agile software projects.
- Develop automated test scripts for new features based on acceptance criteria and user stories during each development Sprint.
- Develop, implement, document, and monitor best practices for test automation developers across Scrum teams.
- Communicates automation goals, priorities, and status across the organization.
- Identify innovative solutions to solve complex test problems.
- Assist in the training/mentoring of team members, including testers, developers, and business analysts.
- Partner with Agile Release Train to plan for new functionality, resolve defects, and incorporate error injection test methodologies.
- Provide input into improving the Automation test framework for the organization.
- Define automated test criteria to be used to determine which functionality should be automated.
- Develop automated tests for all functionality that meets the specified automation criteria.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
- U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain a DHS public trust clearance.
- 7+ years of relative experience with a focus on Automation Testing using automation tools to include Java code integration
- 5+ years experience in Requirements Analysis, Functional, and Regression, testing
- 4+ years developing automated scripts where web services are utilized, and test data may be mocked to accelerate testing cycles
- 4+ years experience with agile development, DevOps, Test Driven Development
- Knowledge and experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Build and Continuous Deployment Practice, Tools and trends
- Good understanding of QA methodology – test plans, test cycles, and software releases
- Experienced with defect management and tracking tools
- Excellent written and verbal communication and teamwork skills
- Must have experience with XPath
Ignite IT offers a comprehensive salary and benefits package to include Medical, Dental, and Vision; Short Term/Long Term/Life Insurance; 401K with matching and fully Vested 100%; PTO; Holiday; Training; and much more… Ignite IT is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or other protected characteristics. In accordance with EO 13665 Final Rule, Ignite IT will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. Applicants selected must be U.S. Citizens and able to pass a government background check.
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
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