Mid-sr test engineer (remote)

GovCIO is currently hiring for a Test Engineer to design, develop, and implement testing methods ensuring products satisfy business requirements. This will be a fully remote position within the United States.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and implements testing methods and equipment to ensure that the product will perform to specifications.
• Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating the product.
• Designs test cases for test plans and creates test scenarios in which tests are carried out.
• Compiles data, defines required changes and reports defects and problems that occurred during the test process.
• Implements and participates in the walkthrough of the product.
• Automated testing may be used for leveling based on hiring manager discretion.
• Consults with the development and/or requirements team to coordinate and test applications.
• Performs analysis, diagnostics, and preliminary evaluations of products.
• Develop testing procedures.
• Develops test plans, scripts, scenarios, functional tests, regression tests, and deployment tests.
• Implements the testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.
• Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.
• Monitors for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and report to management periodically.
• Manual and Automated testing of integrations, interfaces, data transfers, APIs.
• Testing Web Services using tools like Ready API, Postman, Wave, AMP, etc.
• End-to-End Software Testing Life Cycle from testing, defect logging and verification of closure of defects, Root Cause Analysis.
• Functional Testing (System, Regression, and User Acceptance).
• Database Testing using SQL queries, simple scripts.
• Thorough understanding of integration requirements and mapping to user stories, acceptance criteria, and test cases.
• Using Jira for maintaining sprint test artifacts and X-RAY for Test execution.
• Analysis of Test results, Defect management and reporting, maintaining Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Work experience in AWS Cloud, Exposure to CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, GitHub, etc.
• Proactively communicate and coordinate with various internal and external project stakeholders.
• Analytical and investigation skills, willingness to learn and ability to troubleshoot.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s with 5-8 years (or commensurate experience)
• Experience in Manual, Integration, Functional and Automated Testing.
• Extensive Jira experience building test plans, issues and executions and creating report outputs.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Extensive Integration & Interface Testing experience
• Exposure to Corporate Database, MPI, VA Profile Database, existing API services in VA network, writing simple Oracle scripts for testing.
• Experience with VA and/or other Federal Agencies.
• Demonstrated experience in a remote work environment.
• Strong understanding and hands-on experience working with Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), NIST-800-53 guidance, HIPAA, and HITECH Act.
• Well versed in Agile Methodology, the VA Veteran-Focused Integration Process (VIP) project management methodology.

Clearance Required:

Ability to obtain and maintain a Suitability/Public Trust clearance