Manual Quality Assurance Tester

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, and final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including data validation testing, functional testing, performance and load testing, usability testing, and accessibility (508) testing
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Work with software developers and engineers to ensure development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document environment state, perform gap analysis, and produce artifacts with options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other DevSecOps team members
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Requirements

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field or BS in a non-IT field with 2 years of related IT experience
• At least 2 years of total experience
• 2 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 2 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 2 Years of application DevSecOps experience with active development in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing Docker containers and platforms such as Kubernetes
• 2 Years of 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
• Experience with performance and load testing
• Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Nice to Have

• Certifications such as CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing) or ISTQB Certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience documenting environment states, performing gap analysis, and producing artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

Qualifications

• BS Degree in an IT field or related experience as specified

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $90,000 to $130,000
• Additional Steampunk benefits (details available via link)