Automated Test Engineer

Overview

As an Automated Test Engineer , you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application and data systems development in an AI-enabled software development environment. We are looking for candidates with experience with quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/DevSecOps work environment, with the ability to support manual testing as needed.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include

• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey requirements to developers
• Meet with product design teams to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, and final QA reports for products
• Take ownership of an automation framework around several Salesforce applications in a shared Org
• Create and manage automated test cases within Salesforce utilizing Selenium
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline test procedures
• Test and examine code written by others and analyze results, including:
• Data validation testing
• Functional testing
• Performance and load testing
• Usability testing
• Accessibility (508) testing
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using Cucumber JVM, TestNG, and Selenium
• Develop and execute API tests using TestNG and related tooling
• Perform performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter
• Provide manual testing support for functional validation, exploratory testing, and edge case scenarios, as needed
• Provide validation testing of different systems and data sets
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, 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
• Experience debugging test failures and identifying root cause
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools
• Utilize tools such as Jira or Rally for story tracking
• Work within CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness and GitLab
• Develop and maintain test code using Java and modern IDEs such as VS Code
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement
• Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other team members
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor junior team members

Qualifications

Required

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of experience; OR
• Master's degree and 3+ years of experience; OR
• Associate's degree and 7+ years of experience; OR
• No degree and 9+ years of experience
• 3+ years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitLab, GitHub, or Bitbucket
• 3+ years of experience implementing test automation using tools such as Selenium, Cucumber, specifically usage within a traditional Salesforce application
• 3+ years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• Experience developing and maintaining automated test scripts in Java
• Experience with API testing using frameworks such as RestAssured
• Ability to perform both automated and manual testing across the software development lifecycle
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills

Preferred

• Experience with performance and load testing (e.g., JMeter)
• Experience with testing Salesforce utilizing Selenium
• Experience with accessibility (Section 508) testing tools such as ANDI or Axe
• Experience working with Jira or Rally for test and requirements management
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Harness
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments