Test Engineering Team Lead

Overview

As a
Test Engineering
Team Lead
, you will work with our growing

Dev Sec Ops practice  as a team lead delivering quality assurance services to support application,cloudand data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 5-7years experiencewithresponsibility for leadinga team of quality assurance and test automationprofeesionalsto drive projects in an Agile/Dev Sec Ops environment .

Responsibilities include:

• Serves as the technical delivery leader, accountable for completion of team delivery efforts including quality oversight and client acceptance

• Fosters and promotes innovative thinking across the client environment

• Builds andmaintainsclient relationships, developing a strategic vision for clients and internal teams

• Handles challenging client situations and offers technical and business guidance & direction to client executives

• Manages staff and monitors performance and training needs to create skills expansion and career advancement opportunity

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

• Meet with product design team todeterminetesting parameters

• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, 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 three or more of the following:
  • Data validation testing
  • Functional testing
  • Performance and load testing
  • Usability testing
  • Accessibility (508) testing

• Establishing 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

• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended

• Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations

• Leverage virtualization and containerization tooptimizetesting software systems

• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement toDev Sec Ops processes  and tools.

• Engineer and implement solutions andproviderecommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

• Present regular status updates andprovidecross training to other Dev Ops team members.

• Leads and manages team members

• Assistsin sales and technical strategy activities beyond their current program

• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided

Required:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance

• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience

• Proven experience of leading the deployment of enterprise and custom Software solutions in client environments

• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult while providing thought leadership to sponsors/stakeholders in solving governance, program/project management, business process and/or technical problems

• Proven experience growing and selling while delivering

• 5 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as Git Hub, Git Lab, Bitbucket

• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages

• 5 Years of application
  
  Dev Sec Ops Experience  with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment

• Experience utilizing docker containers andutilizingplatforms such as Kubernetes

• 5 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI,Rest Assured, Postman

• 3 Years of Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines

• 3 Years of Experience with performance and load testing

Preferred:

• MSDegree

• Certifications:

• CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing)

• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification

• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST)

• DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills

• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary, including but not limited to geographic location, contractual requirements, education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $110,000 to $160,000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunk’s total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

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