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Steampunk, Inc. · 3 months ago

Senior Tester

McLean, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$110K/yr - $160K/yr

2+ years exp

Steampunk, Inc. is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, seeking a Senior Tester to join their DevSecOps practice. The role involves delivering quality assurance services, managing testing processes, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure software quality and security.

ConsultingInformation Technology

Growth Opportunities

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters

Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products

Manage test data architecture definition and requests

Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures

Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following:

Data validation testing

Functional testing

Performance and load testing

Usability testing

Accessibility (508) testing

Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation

Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations

Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency

Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes

Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems

Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools

Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members

Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Qualification

Test automationDevSecOps experiencePerformance testingScripting languagesGit SCMDocker containersKubernetesCI/CD PipelinesGap analysisCommunicationInterpersonal skillsCollaborative skillsDocumentation skillsMentoring

Required

Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience

Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket

Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages

Application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment

Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes

Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman

Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines

Experience with performance and load testing

Preferred

MS Degree

Certifications:

CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)

International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification

Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)

DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)

Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Company

Steampunk, Inc.

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Steampunk is anchored by a startup culture with a customer-centered delivery approach, we put our Federal government clients in the center of everything we design, develop, and deliver to drive high-quality mission impacts and user experiences at speed.

Founded in 2019

Washington, District of Columbia, USA

201-500 employees