Software Tester || Remote || Active Secret/Top- Secret Clearance

Role: Software Tester/ Test Engineer

The conversion salary is $110-120 K per Year. Could be higher if they don''t need the insurance or something.

Test Engineer with Active Secret/Top- Secret Clearance 

Role: Software Tester

ACTIVE SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED.

Candidate must be located in DMV area and able to commute to Stafford, VA office twice or thrice per month for the meetings.

The Software Tester will support the program with hands-on test development and execution experience implementing automated testing and integration into Gitlab pipelines. This tester is responsible for expanding, improving, and maintaining our test automation framework, and supporting our client with expansion of their test automation framework.

This tester should be self-starting and proactive; they are expected to serve as a trusted resource on the business logic in place as well as our system architecture. 

They are expected to work collaboratively, with minimal supervision, on teams including DevOps Engineers and Developers to ensure our application meets users’ needs, as well as business requirements and scalability characteristics. Each team member is expected to be cross-functional and take collective ownership to ensure deliverables are met and superb quality is achieved.

Required Skills

• Must hold Active Secret clearance
• Minimum 5 years of automation testing experience
• Experience with test suite development and maintenance
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Appium, Robot, Cucumber, etc.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter, K6, Loadrunner, etc.
• Experience writing automated tests for web front ends, web services, APIs, and databases
• Experience with manual testing
• Experience with integration testing
• Experience cross-browser/cross-platform testing
• Experience working as part of an agile team using SAFe, Scrum, XP and/or Kanban
• Generation and maintenance of controlled test datasets and scenarios
• Desire to work in a collaborative environment
• Quality and Detail-orientated
• Team player who works well with customers and colleagues at all levels.
• Ability to lead and manage a team of testers, providing clear guidance and mentorship
• Experience with Git version control and collaborative development workflows
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills for determining automation test failures

Desired Skills

• Experience working with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience providing technical leadership – understands overall architecture, understands software engineering and testing best practices
• Experience with testing tools such as Xray, TestRail, or Zephyr
• Security testing experience a plus
• Self-motivated, quick learner with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with SPA web applications such as Angular, React, or Blazor
• Experience with Cloud-native web-based applications hosted in Azure or AWS 

 Thanks and Regards,