QA Test Engineer

QA Test Engineer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a QA Test Engineer supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a QA Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

• Develop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).
• Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.
• Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
• Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) work groups, task groups and user groups.
• Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.
• Automated test script development
• Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.
• Other related duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Bachelor's Degree; OR in lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required
• Minimum of 5-7 years' experience in technology or software development is preferred.
• Experience eliciting and documenting business processes and requirements.
• Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
• Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results and providing test artifacts.
• Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.
• Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, Workflow
• Hands-on knowledge of scripting languages such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)
• Experience with API Testing using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar
• Experience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.
• Experience using automation tools
• Demonstrated experience with automation testing tools using Artificial Intelligence (AI) or similar

Preferred Experience:

• Software Testing certification is preferred.
• Mail.
  
  DAT and Mail.
  
  XML are fundamental to the electronic data exchange of mailing information.
  
  Experience with Mail.
  
  DAT, and Mail.
  
  XML specification (highly desired but not required).

Security Clearance Level:

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

• Washington, DC

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $83,927 - $113,549. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be…