SDET Engineer

This position is Hybrid, candidate should be willing to come to work as needed by the project team. Local candidates ONLY, willing to attend In Person Interviews in Reston VA.

Job Description:
1. Accountable for analyzing User Stories, Acceptance Criteria and Prepare In Sprint automated test scripts for Web/UI, Web Services and Mobile application

2. Accountable for coding automation scripts utilizing tools such as Selenium, SoapUI , Cucumber and BDD Framework

3. Responsible to Create, maintain and update the automation framework in alignment with enterprise standards and best practices

4. Prepare test plans and test cases with pre-determined results. Executes tests and reviews test data within specified scheduled dates.

5. Accountable for analyzing test and operational problems to determine presence and scope of potential code defects.

6. Reports errors through a structured defect tracking process in Jira tool

7. Communicates weekly with management verbally and via written detail status report regarding potential problems and concerns.

8. Responsible for scheduling Jenkin jobs and executing automated regression suites and smoke test suites in CI/CD Pipeline

9. Develop and maintain business and technical knowledge through training, testing workshops, reading, and research, etc. Acquire and maintain a working knowledge of testing tools. Expand business knowledge of product benefits, corporate policies, division and department goals and department procedures.

10. Coordinates with customers to resolve issues. Verify satisfaction of internal and external customer requests and obtain information to create test data.

11. Participates in project work group meetings (internal/external peer reviews, walk through, status meetings, Software Process Improvement, JAD sessions etc.)

12. Initiates Change Management Records (CMRs) or CareFirst Information Technology Tracking System (CITT) requests for necessary system changes or enhancements

Qualifications:
8 years Experience in software development and/or testing, 5 of which must be in automated software testing with core framework development.
Experience with test automation framework architectural design
Experience with Object Oriented Design, and extensive use of programing languages ( Java, JavaScript, SQL/PL-SQL)
Strong experience with Selenium, Cucumber and BDD Framework
Strong Knowledge in Mobile test automation (eg: Appium)
Experience in Webservices test automation using tools like Soap UI
Experience with relational database management systems (e.g. MS SQL Server, DB2, Oracle,) Proven proficiency with: SQL and PL/SQL
Proven experience to create, maintain and run complex database queries.