QA Tester
About this role
Overview
As a QA/Tester , you will work with our growing DevSecOps & Salesforce practices delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with minimum 5 years experience with experience in quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.
Contributions
• 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 with the Tech Lead • 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 Salesforce • Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers • 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 • 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
Qualifications
• Must be able to maintain a U.S. Government security clearance • Bachelor's Degree required; equivalency offered • 5 years of related experience in software/IT/cloud consulting • 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
Preferred:
• Certifications a plus: • CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing) • International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification • Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST) • DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5) • DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment • Experience with performance and load testing • 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 • Current or previous DHS CBP Clearance is preferred