Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

About the role

As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET), you will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud, and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years of experience in quality assurance and test automation practices within an Agile/DevSecOps work environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey requirements to development teams
• Collaborate with product design teams to determine testing parameters and acceptance criteria
• Write comprehensive test plans, create test cases, develop test procedures, document bug reports, and produce final QA reports for products
• Manage test data architecture definition and coordinate test data requests
• Develop automated testing scripts with consideration for parallelization and idempotency
• Integrate test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Execute testing and examination of code written by others and analyze results, including three or more of the following:
  • Data validation testing
  • Functional testing
  • Performance and load testing
  • Usability testing
  • Accessibility (Section 508) testing
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Work with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Document as-is state of the environment, perform gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement of services provided
• Present regular status updates and provide cross-training to other DevOps team members
• Act as an individual contributor and mentor more junior team members

Required Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• Bachelor's Degree and 10 years of experience (7 must be relevant)
• 3 years of experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 years of experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 7 years of application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing Docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 3 years of experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with performance and load testing
• Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Preferred Qualifications

• Certifications: CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing), International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification, Cloud certifications (AWS Certified Developer, Azure Developer Associate, etc.)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills
• Experience with behavior-driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD) methodologies

Pay

The projected compensation range for this position is $90,000 to $130,000.