QA Automation Engineer

ASRC Federal is seeking a Quality Assurance Automation Test Engineer to support an upcoming USDA contract. **

Location: Remote opportunity

Clearance: Public Trust - must be a US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident and be able to successfully complete a government issues background investigation.

Summary**

The selected candidate must be knowledgeable and experienced as a Quality Assurance Automation Test Engineer for server based application software testing; having experience both creating and maintaining software automation test scripts. Likewise, the candidate must have a working knowledge of software engineering concepts such as software development standards, quality assurance standards, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), interpretation of product requirements, test plan and test case development, testing of software functionality, product installation, performance, load, and usability (508 compliance experience a plus) testing. **

Responsibilities**

• Creating, maintenance and evaluation of software automation test scripts (including incorporation of dynamic test data)
• Ability to train others regarding automation test concepts; plus providing guidance and direction as needed
• Gathering and validating application functional/performance/load requirements
• Creation and maintenance of test plans and test cases
• Execution, as required, of manual and automated software testing in areas involving installation, functional, performance and load, integration, and regression testing
• Management of defects within a corporate defect tracking system
• Documentation of process improvements regarding best practices regarding test automation
• Creation of test reports
• Maintenance of all test documentation
• Coordination and prioritization of test development activities and the ability to work with multiple development teams and software projects are also critical for the selected candidate.
• Candidate must have the ability to troubleshoot independently both software and operating system level installation and configuration issues.

Requirements

Requirement:

• Production software development experience with 2-3 structured programming languages
• Experience with quality assurance practices and testing methodologies
• Experience with test plan and test case development and execution
• Experience with developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts
• Experience with automated testing applications like Selenium.
• Demonstrated documentation and reporting experience
• Experience with commercial defect management systems
• Experience training small teams regarding test engineering concepts
• Experience working within an Agile Development Environment
• Experience with document management systems
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, files systems, and other program objects.
• US Citizen or Lawful Permanent Resident.
• Ability to successfully complete a government issues background investigation.

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree--preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, similar discipline, or equivalent work experience is required.
• Minimum of 8 years of structured software quality assurance engineering experience is required.
• Minimum 3+ years of hands-on experience with the development of automated test scripts, execution of test cases and reporting and dissemination of test results.

Desired Skills

• Test script development using Selenium WebDriver
• Test script development using Selenium IDE
• Experience writing production JavaScript, HTML, XML, XSLT
• Experience with Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio
• Experience with Microsoft Visual Studio
• Experience writing production Java, Microsoft C#, .NET
• System administration experience with Unix/Linux/Windows
• Experience with Java and .NET Web Services
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari
• Experience with the compliancy requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act for web applications design
• Experience with source control management software
• Scripting Proficiency (i.e. Cygwin, Dos, Bash, Perl, Python, and/or VBscript)