Test Engineer- REMOTE (BEAGLE)

Description

About Le'fant

Le’fant is a rapidly growing CVE Certified, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business specializing in management consulting for the federal government. Our compensation and benefits plans are designed to attract and retain the industries best talent to provide the highest quality services to the Federal Government. We offer 40lK matching, customized health plans, dental and vision insurance, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, an incentives program to recognize exceptional behavior and competitive base salaries. We hire the best to provide the best service.

EEO Statement:

It has been and will continue to be a fundamental philosophy and policy of Le’fant not to discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, sexual gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status or any other protected category with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment.

What you’ll get to do:

•Developing Test procedures – Creating test procedures for current set of backlog items: system, functional, regression, performance, load, installation, security, interoperability, stress, boundary; defining tests for backlog items; estimating tasks needed for creating manual tests; and assessing candidates to automate for regression tests

•Developing and implementing quality assurance methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures in a large computer-based organization.

•Developing and executing software test plans, test cases, and test scripts in JAVA for Integration, Migration, Regression, and/or Performance testing, in order to identify system and software problems and their causes, recording defect backlog items, reporting the results of testing and resolving testing defects.

•Run test validations at various levels including DB validation (SQL), logging validation, and UI validation.

•Mapping tasks and tests to backlog items (requirements traceability).

•Supporting independent User Acceptance Testing

•Acting as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.

•Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.

•Work closely with developers, professional services team and product managers to define the automated testing components that will be used to validate requirements against developed software.

•Work closely with Product Owners to understand product specifics and to create corresponding automation test strategies.

•Assist with creating project resource estimates, metrics to track completion phase, defect reports, defect prevention, development efficiency and quality

•Contribute to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations agile project lifecycle.

•Support hardware inventory and shipping of equipment as needed.

•Document new purchase orders and manage current inventory.

•Support testing efforts during scheduled and unscheduled Change Requests after hours and weekends as needed.

•Provide mission support activities after hours and as needed.

Requirements

You have:

• At least 10 years of Maximo Developer experience and Maximo for Aviation(MFA) is preferred
• Involved in at least 2 Maximo 7.X upgrades
• Experience in customizing Maximo with java, automation scripts
• Experience in Maximo Integration and data loading using MIF
• Design, Build & Configure Maximo applications based on the requirements to meet the business process

Qualifications:

Required:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but are not limited to:
  • 3 year check for felony convictions.
  • 1 year check for illegal drug use.
  • 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud.

College degree (B.S. or greater) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline. Experience accepted in lieu of degree.

•Ability to write test documentation - Test Plans; Test Procedures; Change Requests; System Requirements Documents; Problem Reports, Discrepancy Reports

•Hands on OOP programming experience with JAVA 

•Familiar working with Continuous Integration (CI) environment such as Jenkins/Hudson, TeamCity, Bamboo

•Expert in working with Open Source Automation tools like Selenium, Cucumber, TestNG

•Comfortable working with an open source or commercial version control systems like GIT

•7 years of Experience testing solutions developed in JAVA. Additionally, familiarity with any of the following is highly desirable: XML, SQL, PL/SQL, HTML, VMware, information exchanges, client server, Object Oriented Development, Continuous integration, Automated testing, UML, Class diagrams, n-tier solutions

•Experience with continuous integration tools and environments and automated testing

•Familiarity with Information Security best practices

•Ability to apply test estimation techniques to software development efforts

•Must have experience with Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing phases

•Must have knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Continuous Integration, Automated Testing, User Acceptance Testing

•Must be a team player and work in a collaborative team environment.

•Ability and experience to interact with the product Owner, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters and provide guidance on automation tools and testing methods to meet project specific needs.

You are good at: 

•Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

•Experience participating in a high performing, highly engaged and motivated CM team 

•Solid experience in incremental software development projects using an Agile Scrum approach

•Understanding of all elements of the software development life cycle

•Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong communication skills and work ethic; self-starter

Bonus would be having:

• Automated & manual testing experience

• Experience using Jira and/or related Agile project tools and plug-ins    

• Experience in performance testing using a framework such as jMeter