Test Engineer/Test Driven Developer (Functional Tester)

Overview

• Location: Lanham, MD/Remote

• Security
  Clearance: IRS MBI clearance is highly preferred

• Available: upon the award, currently in the proposal stage

• Utilizing usability tools and research methods to provide actionable insights that drive future design improvements.
• Collecting testing needs from internal clients and determine priorities that are consistent with business goals and objectives.
• Planning, moderating and scribing focus groups, remote and one-onone usability sessions to obtain user preferences and feedback.
• Planning, recruiting, and facilitating the usability testing of a system
• Analyzing and synthesizing the results of usability testing in order to provide recommendations for change to a system
• Potentially creating such artifacts as Usability Testing Plan, Testing Scripts, and Usability Testing Report
• Apply applicable testing expertise to assist in the design and development of automated tests to support functional, performance and security test strategies/ plans for the Web Apps Analytics effort
• Creates manual and automated tests cases/ scripts traceable to requirements, user stories, use cases and incorporate reusability in test case design/ development of usage analytics efforts
• Assist in developing scripts that reuse, where feasible, unit and component tests associated with test driven development
• Assist in the design and development of standard test design approach for test driven development and automation
• Provide updates to the TSIP and use it as a guide to status Automation efforts
• Executes testing and provides solutions and resolutions to findings
• Converting Agile User Stories into automated test scenarios run during iterations and subsequently consumed by release and system level testers
• Working closely with the product team to ensure that what is built validates the business intent of the product
• Working within a larger product development team to implement suitable continuous integration (CI) frameworks enabling earlier discovery of defects and higher quality software
• End 2 End automated regression scenarios to be used as regression tests during continuous integration and QA cycles
• Identifying and building service layer automated test solutions to support early automation

• Experience working as part of a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team focused on improving usability, user experience, and driving user adoption and engagement.
• Ability to: code, test, debug documents, and implement web applications using a variety of platforms.
• Experienced in usability testing to create products that are based on known customer motivations, behaviors and needs.
• Experienced in the overall digital test automation strategy to accelerate preparation and execution of testing activities and plan/coordinate early testing across multiple platforms and systems.
• Experienced in coding and have a working knowledge of both automated agile (TDD/BDD) and waterfall methodologies as well as possessing the skills necessary to ensure successful maintenance of automated unit, acceptance and regression tests with a focus on early automation.
• Demonstrated experience with TDD, automated tool frameworks, and CI/CD

• This job description is not designed to cover a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities are subject to change at any time. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
• While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

• All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.