Job Description

Test Engineering Architect

As a Test Engineering Architect, you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. You will act as both technical visionary and be responsible for hands-on delivery. Responsibilities include:

1. Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
2. Develop test strategies, test plans, and implement testing solutions for large software programs
3. Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
4. Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products
5. Manage test data architecture definition and requests
6. Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures
7. 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
8. Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
9. Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations
10. Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
11. Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
12. Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
13. Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
14. Document as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
15. Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems
16. Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools.
17. Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the services provided
18. Present regular status updates and provide cross training to other DevOps team members.
19. Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Qualifications

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
• 8+ Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• Experience with Harness or Jenkins
• 5 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 5 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 8 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• 5 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:

• MS Degree
• 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

About Steampunk

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.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process, you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit

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