Test Auto Engineer

Role

Test Auto Engineer

DC Government

Washington D.C (Hybrid)

Hybrid position, currently required to be on-site at least once every two weeks although there's a chance on-site reporting could increase.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Perform and write automated functional, system, regression, and integration testing
• Design, develop, and execute automated tests.
• Extend and enhance existing test automation frameworks and tools.
• Ensure test environments are prepared and ready for execution of test scenarios
• Execute test cases to validate system functionality prior to releasing to UAT/customers
• Work closely with engineering and QA to manage and improve the development pipeline by integrating with CI/CD tools.
• Triage, document and perform troubleshooting and diagnosis of defects reported by customers or internally to determine steps to reproduce.
• Execute regression testing to validate defect resolution and verify existing functionality is unaffected
• Identify, record, document test results to enable efficient resolution of defects
• Develop automated tests for regression and reproduction of defects
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools.
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g. developers and project managers) to identify system requirements.
• Investigate the causes of non-conforming software
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts
• Document QA procedures for team.
• Other responsibilities as assigned

• 4+ years of full-time professional experience with Testing Automation and Quality Assurance, and Testing Methodologies.
• Strong understanding of agile software development processes
• Strong technical skills, work ethic, independence, problem solving ability, and overall positive attitude.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with programming languages
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with varying priorities
• Ability to communicate ideas in a variety of formats
• Proficiency with Financial Concepts, Business Math
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment and manage priorities with deadlines.
• Adheres to Agile development methodology
• Proficiency with quality assurance terminology, methods and tools
• Perform code reviews

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or the equivalent combination of education, and successful work experience.

• Microsoft Office products -- MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio and Microsoft Teams.
• Knowledge and understanding of SQL
• Experience with Python, Selenium
• Experience with RPA and associated tools.
• Experience with Blue Prism, UIPath, Rest Easy or similar API automation
• Experience with Jira and Confluence
• Proficiency in building and using Test Automation Frameworks.

Flexible work from home options available.