Automated Test Engineer

Role: Automated Test Engineer

Client: Defense-Aerospace

Hourly Rate: up to $72/hr W2, non-benefited

Length: 12-months

Location: Remote

Clearance: Due to the nature of work performed within the facilities, U.S. citizenship is required

Description:

• Design, build, integrate, test, deploy, and improve software services and platforms within a cross-functional agile team
• Work closely with the engineering leadership to ensure quality is built in early and is testable
• Develop and participate in the QA/test approach, methodology, and process for a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environment
• Test applications through automated and manual back-end functions as well as through UI
• Qualify all new features by testing on supported platforms and configurations
• Implement, execute and troubleshoot automated tests during the sprint cycles
• Verify installations with acceptance tests, track bugs, and participate in development meetings
• Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
• Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, motivated to solve complex problems, and inspired to deliver superior user-centered software solutions
• Participate in internal reviews of software components and systems

Candidates should have demonstrated strengths and experience in some of the following areas:

• Deep knowledge of test methodologies, writing I&T plans, creating test cases and debugging
• Working knowledge of application deployment tools such as Ansible
• Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Gitlab Runner
• Experience with Junit-Mockito, Apache HTTPD Server, and Spring Boot
• Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux Environments
• Expertise in Test Automation using Selenium, Test Complete, Cucumber, Apache JMeter or similar tools
• Familiarity with Cloud Computing and IaaS environments such as the Red Hat Open Stack Platform (RHOSP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services
• Familiarity with Container technologies such as Docker and/or Orchestration technologies such as Rancher/Kubernetes
• Full use and understanding of software engineering concepts, principles, and theories
• Effective communication and attention to detail

Desired Skills

• Familiarity with multiple DevSecOps tool chains
• Experience using Agile methodologies
• Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas and product and process improvements
• Memory and CPU profiling
• Experience building large-scale mission-critical applications
• Experience with distributed systems
• Information visualization

If interested in learning more about this position, please submit your resume and I will call back with more information.