Software Automation Test Lead

Responsibilities

• Managing a team of five (5) or more Testers.
• Evaluating industry standard test tools and making recommendations based on industry best practices.
• Creating, maintaining, and evaluating software automation test scripts.
• Establishing test strategies to ensure features meet acceptance criteria.
• Creating and executing manual and automated test cases to ensure functional coverage for assigned features.
• Gathering and validating application functional, performance, and load requirements.
• Identifying and logging defects with clear reproduction steps and validating fixes.
• Working closely with developers and Requirements Analyst peers to clarify requirements and improve test coverage.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning and retrospectives, to provide insights from a testing perspective.
• Managing test data, including the creation of data via API calls for testing.
• Creating test reports and maintaining all test documentation.

Requirements

• Successfully demonstrated experience with 2-3 object-oriented programming languages, with Java preferred and some Groovy experience.
• Hands-on experience with developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts.
• Experience with automated testing IDEs such as IntelliJ.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Katalon, Postman, SoapUI, or ReadyAPI.
• Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2012/2016.
• Experience with commercial defect management systems such as JIRA.
• Experience working within an Agile Development Environment.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, and file systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (15+ years of demonstrated experience may be substituted).
• 15+ years of general experience, including ten years of specialized and/or hands-on experience in automated testing.

Skills

• Successfully demonstrated experience with 2-3 object-oriented programming languages, with Java preferred and some Groovy experience.
• Hands-on experience with developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts.
• Experience with automated testing IDEs such as IntelliJ.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Katalon, Postman, SoapUI, or ReadyAPI.
• Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2012/2016.
• Experience with commercial defect management systems such as JIRA.
• Experience working within an Agile Development Environment.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, and file systems.

Benefits

We invest in the lives of our employees, both in and out of the workplace, by providing competitive pay and benefits packages. Benefits offered may include health care, dental, vision, life insurance; 401(k); education assistance; paid time off including PTO, holidays, and any other paid leave required by law.

Pay

The salary offered will depend on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience, skills, education, geographic location, internal equity, business needs, and other factors permitted by law.

Schedule

Work Location: Arlington, VA or Merrifield, VA.

Clearance

Required: Active Secret clearance.

Desired Skills

• Experience with a CI/CD tool such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or CircleCI.
• Scripting proficiency in Groovy, Cygwin, Bash, Perl, or Python.
• Engages in self-learning and stays updated with industry trends.
• Experience using production RESTful interfaces.
• Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
• Experience with source control management software, such as Git, Tortoise SVN/Subversion, or BitBucket.
• Experience with Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.
• Experience with mobile application testing and associated automation frameworks (e.g., Appium, XCUITest, Espresso).

EEO Statement

ASRC Federal and its Subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, citizenship, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.