Direct Client Req_Quality Assurance Engineer_Local TO Washington Dc​/Md​/Va _GC OR Usc_Only

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Candidates residing in the Greater Washington, DC metro area within a fifty (50) mile driving radius of the Board offices in Washington, DC. Citizens or GC holder only.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related degree in the IT field or equivalent experience.
• At least seven years of experience developing, automating and executing test cases and test scripts according to software development life cycles (SDLCs), including Dev Ops, Agile, Lean, Iterative, or Waterfall.
• Able to plan, lead, and report on testing efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to validate requirements for testability and transfer this knowledge to other team members.
• Demonstrated experience with automated testing tools and frameworks such as Unified Functional Testing (UFT), Rational Functional Tester, Selenium, or Browser Stack.
• Experience with knowledge transfer of test automation and automation planning to the wider QA Engineer community.
• Ability to identify test cases for automation from existing test case documentation.
• Configure automated testing tools.
• Create, enhance, debug, and execute codebased test cases.
• Experience in creating, enhancing, and maintaining a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Organize and monitor the defect management process. In-depth experience testing Microsoft Windows, Linux applications that incorporate the following technologies:
  Client-server, web, mobile or cloud platforms.
• Proficient in designing and executing SQL queries.
• Demonstrated ability of building test environments on cloud platforms (e.g., Microsoft Azure or AWS).

• Identify test cases for automation from existing test case documentation.
• Create, enhance, debug, and execute test cases.
• Organize and monitor the defect management process.
• Creation of test designs, test processes, test cases and test data.
• Participate in walkthroughs of testing procedures.
• Prepare all reports related to software testing.
• Ensure that all test related work is carried out as per the defined standards and procedures. Ensure quality practices/processes are followed for code delivery.
• Thoroughly analyzes requirements to identify test cases and develop test scripts.
• Utilizes in-depth knowledge of tools and testing trends to recommend innovations that enhance and/or streamline the application delivery.
• Represent the team he is responsible for all interdepartmental meetings. Interaction with the customers as required.
• Able to supervise all testing activities carried out by the team and identify team members who require more training.
• Plan testing activities and prepare test effort estimations.
• Continuous test process improvement with the help of metrics.