Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Public Trust or Active Security Clearance Required

2 days on site and 3 days remote a week in Falls Church, VA or Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Tacoma, WA

Defense Health Agency (DHA)

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Designs, implements, and maintain automated testing processes with the other members of the automation team using Java, TestNG, Selenium and Appium.
• Analyzes existing QA practices and makes recommendations and strategies for improvement as well execute testing.
• Maintains and executes manual smoke and regression scripts to ensure that new code, functionality, or new releases have not introduced errors to existing functionality.
• Documents and tracks all test results in accordance with defined processes.
• Investigates problems and develops disposition and corrective actions for recurring discrepancies.
• Recommends corrective actions, dispositions, process optimization and modifications.
• Interfaces with stakeholders to ensure requirements are met.
• Develops tech work documents for the controlled work package.

Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (preferred).
• 3 years of relevant experience.
• Experience in DoD Healthcare IT (preferred).

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Public Trust Clearance.
• Experience in software testing, including experience in the Agile/Scrum development lifecycle.
• Strong knowledge of software testing techniques & technologies including Smoke/unit/regression, Integration Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing
• Basic Knowledge of Automation testing
• Mid-Level understanding of coding technologies: HTML, CSS and java
• Experience with Selenium or another automated test suite is preferred.
• Ability to write and execute acceptance tests and test cases.
• Ability to write and execute automated test scripts to support an automation script library
• Android and iOS apps testing experience highly desired
• Strong understanding of mobile and web technologies
• Experience using Issue, Test and Project tracking Software such as JIRA, Confluence, and Zephyr
• Solid test planning skills, with a strong appreciation for the need to provide well-documented test strategies, procedures, and results.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and yet be effective within a team setting.
• Must be capable of managing multiple efforts with time related constraints in a fast-paced contracting environment.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with diverse internal and external stakeholder groups and individuals.
• Friendly presence, helpful attitude, good interpersonal skills, and ability to work well with others.
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and other Office applications
• Good problem-solving skills: ability to visualize a problem/situation and think abstractly to solve it