Senior Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer

GDIT is currently seeking a Senior Test Engineer in Gaithersburg, MD to join our team supporting the FDA. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is the federal agency responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for: advancing the public's health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; helping the public acquire the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health.

Work as a Test Engineer involved in all phases of the development lifecycle. Participate in design sessions, both from custom code as well as architecture stand point. Attending customer and team meetings to support various program tasks including design review, stage gates, technical roadmap, production troubleshooting including performance issues, etc. As needed, create various document artifacts including design/ technical approach document, target state diagrams, installation instructions, Visio diagrams, etc. Provide technical guidance to mid-level developers as and when required. Work closely with release manager to ensure completion of key tasks including deployment, code baseline and merge, version control, etc.

***This is a hybrid position requiring working onsite in the GDIT Gaithersburg office 3 days a week.

HOW A TEST ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Develop, document and maintain functional test cases and other test artifacts like test data, data validation, harness scripts and automated scripts.
• Execute and evaluate manual or automated test cases and report test results
• Work in an agile environment with rapidly changing requirements.
• Hold and facilitate test plan/case reviews with cross-functional team members.
• Support all aspects of user acceptance testing by the primary customer and/or users.
• Adapt test automation to suit project needs.
• Isolate, replicate, and report defects and verify defect fixes.
• Create clear and detail-oriented test plans.
• Be a liaison with development and engineering support teams to assist with troubleshooting.
• Work in an Oracle or SQL Server environment.
• Maintain the integrity of Automated tests in multiple environments.
• Review and approve QA Automation specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with team members (Development, Testing Engineers, Scrum Master), Product Owner and Business partners to ensure that proper software testing methodologies are used, product requirements/issues are documented and diagnosed, and testing is completed according to established deadlines and processes.
• Coordinate with manual testers to convert test cases.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• BS and (8) years of relevant experience. However, equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• 5 years of experience in the development and execution of test plans and test scripts for Web-based applications.
• 3 or more years of experience with automation testing using software like Selenium.
• 2 or more years of experience developing front end web applications interfaces.
• 3 or more years' experience with Atlassian software such as JIRA and Confluence.
• At least 1 year of Oracle SQL experience.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 5+ years of solid experience in QA automation. Experience with UI test automation frameworks such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG.
• Good knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with Acceptance Test Driven Development (Gherkin), Behavior Driven Development.
• Programming and scripting with Java & HTML/CSS//XML/ JavaScript.
• Testing Framework: TestNG ,BDD, Junit, Protractor.
• Development Environment: Eclipse / Maven/ANT.
• Agile / Scrum (workflow Rally or JIRA).
• Strong verbal and written communication skill.

SECURITY CLEARANCE LEVEL:

• Must be able to obtain a level 5 Public Trust, which requires residency in the U.S. for 3 of the last 5 years.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match.
• Customizable health benefits packages.
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career.
• Challenging work that makes a real impact on the world around you.
• Full-flex work week.

The likely salary range for this position is $102,000 - $138,000. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: 25-50%

Telecommuting Options: Hybrid

Work Location: USA MD Gaithersburg

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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