Test Engineer

Overview

Are you inquisitive? Thorough? Diplomatic? Ever worked as part of a program that is Agile? Are you interested in being an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence?

Steampunk is looking for you to join our team as a Test Engineer . You'll implement automation for increased efficiency and provide hands-on testing and QA expertise in mission critical work across our client base.

Responsibilities

As a Test Engineer , you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with experience with quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment. Responsibilities include:

• 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

Qualifications

• 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 • 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket • 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages • 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment • Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes • 3 Years of 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 • Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)