Journeyman Automated Test Engineer

Description

The Amivero Team

Amivero’s team of IT professionals delivers digital services that elevate the federal government, whether national security or improved government services. Our human-centered, data-driven approach is focused on truly understanding the environment and the challenge, and reimagining with our customer how outcomes can be achieved.

Our team of technologists leverage modern, agile methods to design and develop equitable, accessible, and innovative data and software services that impact hundreds of millions of people.

As a member of the Amivero team you will use your empathy for a customer’s situation, your passion for service, your energy for solutioning, and your bias towards action to bring modernization to very important, mission-critical, and public service government IT systems.

Special Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with a min of 3 years of relevant experience
• US Citizenship Required to obtain Public Trust
• DHS Public Trust Preferred

The Gist…

The Automated Test Engineer will work on a program consisting of a team of teams and will be responsible for working in an Agile environment. The Engineer will support the creation of tests, test suites, and functional tests (as needed) for the benefit of streamlined development and deployment of custom software applications.

The ideal candidate will lean in and complete the DHS Trusted Tester Certification because they see the opportunity to expand their value and knowledge.

• Participate in Agile Scrum development methodology ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, scrum, backlog refinement, defining tasks/tests, estimating LOE, testing, tracking work done, retrospective, demonstration, etc.).
• Develop, maintain, and perform sprint-level manual/automated testing activities (e.g., define scenarios, develop detailed scripts/procedures, develop Cucumber Gherkin feature files and scenarios, map user story acceptance criteria to script verification points) in Jira with Xray and Cucumber BDD plug-ins.
• Develop and maintain automated scripts that are exercised during CI/CD builds and nightly regression test suite execution.
• Develop and maintain automated UI and backend (e.g., SQL, logs) scripts in a Java language-based Selenium/Cucumber/Serenity framework stored in a Git Lab repository that may integrate with a Cucumber or generic test.
• Develop and maintain automated web service API validation scripts using Spring ToolSuite4, Rest Assured, Postman, Fiddler, and SoapUI.
• In collaboration with the Product Architect and/or Business Analyst, access impacts of candidate changes to the automated smoke and/or regression test suite(s) and plan accordingly.
• Perform full-scope static and dynamic testing of a system under test utilizing functional and non-functional testing techniques. These techniques can include the following test types:
  Unit (only for Automated scripts), Integration/API, End-To-End, Smoke, Regression/Functional, 508 Compliance, and Usability.
• Perform script and/or code peer reviews to ensure compliance with program-level manual/automated testing standards, guidelines, and processes.
• Document and track testing activity progress during a sprint. This includes capturing execution artifacts to support that all backlog acceptance criteria have been successfully verified/validated.

• US Citizenship Required to obtain Public Trust
• Bachelor’s degree with a min of 3 years of experience in an IT related field analyzing, designing, and implementing software test automation solutions.
• Experience testing applications developed in Java, JavaScript, Angular
  
  JS, Oracle, and Postgre
  
  SQL.
• Experience developing and executing automated test scripts with open-source tools like Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, Selenium, Cucumber BDD, Serenity BDD, and Maven.
• Must have working knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Manual Functional Testing, Automated Testing, and Continuous Integration.
• Experience programming in Java and with other programming technologies (e.g., JavaScript, Web Services, SOAP, XML).
• SQL CRUD script development experience against Oracle and Postgre
  
  SQL databases.
• Ability to apply estimation techniques to manual test script efforts and automated test script development/maintenance efforts.
• Must have experience interacting with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, Product Architects, Developers, and Technical Writers, and providing guidance on automation tools and testing methods to meet project specific needs.

EOE/M/F/VET/DISABLED

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Amivero complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities.