Senior Test Automation Developer; Engineer Software Quality

Senior Test Automation Developer (Engineer Software Quality
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Location: Fairfax, VA, United States

Requisition Number: 28180

Required Travel: 0 - 10%

Employment Type: Full Time/Salaried/Exempt

Anticipated Salary Range: $ - $

Security Clearance: Ability to Obtain

Level of

Experience:

Senior

Mission Technologies, a division of HII, is currently seeking a Senior Test Automation Developer to work out of their Fairfax, Virginia office. This position is a part of the overall United States Postal Service (USPS) applications development team, which is responsible for developing, testing and maintaining applications to support the business functions of the organization. The successful candidate will have advanced to expert level knowledge of automation test tools and will participate in the planning, designing, maintenance and running of automated tests in a fast‑paced environment requiring highly complex test automation programming techniques.

This role requires proficiency and strong hands‑on experience in developing test scripts using Micro Focus’s Unified Functional Testing (UFT) tool and advanced programming using VBScript. In addition, experience in any one or more of the following is desirable: micro services‑based architecture, API testing, REST, Maven, performance test tools, Apache Kafka, Git, C# programming, Java programming, and Selenium.

• Participate in defining and applying the automation strategy in the development and maintenance of automation frameworks, solutions and test scripts.
• Be responsible for accelerated development of advanced, complex, and comprehensive automated test scripts both from scratch as well as utilizing existing frameworks.
• Be responsible for developing and modifying automated test scripts to conditionally run in multiple test, development, and production environments.
• Provide software system testing support, verification of code and certification that all deliverables meet customer requirements and are free of software defects and/or bugs across the systems development life cycle (SDLC).
• Partake in occasional software deployment testing, regression testing, script development, performance testing, performance analysis, etc., which may occur outside of normal working hours both on weekdays and weekends and/or involve overtime.
• Participate in Agile team activities such as daily scrums, creating tasks, working on user stories, etc.
• Using clear, concise and meaningful communications, work closely with software engineers and other project team members to successfully test and assess ongoing development within demanding schedules, as well as, produce test cases and other Postal project documentation.
• Design and prepare test plans and related test case scenarios based on documented, and sometimes undocumented, system requirements and/or business rules. This may include positive and negative test cases, regression test case procedures and documentation for simple to complex business functionality.
• Create and maintain the documentation of test cases and test results and participate in defect reviews to ensure that quality criteria are upheld.
• Enter and manage defects in an automated defect tracking system ensuring that all defects are entered with adequate information to assist developers in reproducing the problem, as well as, working with the development teams to identify the root cause of the problems.

• 9 years relevant experience with Bachelor’s in related field; 7 years relevant experience with Master’s in related field; 4 years relevant experience with PhD or Juris Doctorate in related field; or High School Diploma or equivalent and 13 years relevant experience.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of related experience (focus in technical field a plus, for example: engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer science or related field) plus at least five (5) years of professional experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience dedicated primarily to automated test development and/or micro services development.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and develop very complex solutions and algorithms by writing quality maintainable…