QA Engineer / Test Automation Specialist

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of testing framework, test processes, and approaches.
• Design, develop, and execute test plans and test cases to ensure software quality.
• Maintain test artifacts, including test data and verification.
• Execute and evaluate functional, integration, performance, and regression test cases to ensure compliance with requirements, specifications, and standards. Report test results.
• Identify defects, report them, and track them to closure.
• Experience with setup, configuration, and maintenance of test suites with a focus on continuous testing and DevOps processes.
• Analyze requirements and technical design documents for use cases/user stories, create test cases, and perform impact analysis.
• Prepare reports and present testing activities to customers and senior management.
• Analyze and resolve problems by coordinating with the scrum team.
• Identify, document, and track defects effectively.

Required Experience:

• Strong understanding of software development, testing principles, methodologies, and skills in various testing techniques and tools.
• Strong technical skills, problem-solving abilities, and communication skills.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and TestRail.
• Stay updated with the latest testing trends and tools to enhance efficiency and coverage.
• Hands-on experience with API testing, Protractor, Postman, Selenium, TestNG, JMeter, PactumJS, and Playwright.
• Participate in developing test plans and strategies for effective application testing.
• Identify and prioritize test cases based on risk and impact.
• Align testing activities with project timelines and deliverables.
• Execute automated test cases and analyze results to identify defects.
• Document and report defects, collaborate with development teams to resolve and retest.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests using tools like Jenkins.
• Collaborate with developers to establish and maintain robust unit and integration testing strategies.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology and strong debugging skills.
• Perform end-to-end testing to ensure application workflows meet business and technical requirements.
• Work with Development and DevOps to integrate test automation with DevOps pipelines.
• Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Candidates must have lived in the United States for 3 out of the past 5 years.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience working in federal projects (preferably CMS).
• Familiarity with databases and SQL for testing applications involving data storage and retrieval.

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in any IT-related field.
• 5 years of experience with establishing comprehensive test practices and methodologies.