Test Automation Engineer (Secret Clearance Required)

Job Description

We are seeking a qualified, motivated individual to join GDIT as a Test Engineer Senior. As part of our deployment information technology team, you will ensure infrastructure development and design meets quality goals and objectives. You will work with multiple scrum teams while developing automated test scripts and test strategies in accordance with the project Quality Control Plan. You will be responsible for supporting, planning, coordinating, and executing verification, validation, and testing of application and systems software.  You will collaborate with GDIT technical leadership, Government customers, and other key stakeholders to assess our existing and new systems infrastructure.

How You’ll Make an Impact: 

• Working closely with software developers, engineers, business analysts, and requirements personnel to plan, coordinate, and execute static analysis and dynamic testing of systems/software code to verify and validate acceptance and technical specifications
• Evaluating the test basis and supporting the refinement of requirements to ensure testability, clarity, and correctness

Test Engineer Senior Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and implement automated testing frameworks for web and cloud-based applications
• Create test scripts for functional, integration, and regression testing using tools such as Selenium, JUnit/NUnit, or Cypress
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines)
• Ensure every code commit triggers tests and results are visible to the team
• Develop and maintain test cases for API Testing and load/performance testing
• Validate system reliability and performance under expected production workloads
• Work in secure Azure Gov environments to set up test data and test environments that mirror production configurations
• Adhere to data handling policies by scrubbing sensitive information as needed for compliance
• Collaborate with developers and business analysts to understand acceptance criteria for user stories
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into automated test scenarios to ensure comprehensive coverage of requirements
• Track and report defects using Azure DevOps boards or similar tools
• Provide clear documentation of issues and work with development teams to resolve and re-test fixes
• Continuously refine the test suite by adding new test cases for discovered issues and new features
• Optimize test execution time to ensure the suite remains efficient and effective as the system evolves

Test Engineer Senior Requirements and Qualifications

• Ability to assess software products for readiness and determine pass/fail criteria
• Ability to capture test data, analyze test results and clearly communicate (orally and written) findings and/or deficiencies
• Skilled at mapping test cases to requirements and providing input to generate a requirements traceability matrix
• Skilled in creating software test cases, procedures, test scripts, and test data conditions
• Knowledge of testing business applications and enterprise information systems
• Knowledge of static and dynamic software test activities
• Knowledge of agile or incremental software development lifecycle models
• Secret Clearance to start
   

Required Technical Skills:

• Windows, Linux, SQL and Oracle
• Hands on SQL Skills using SSMS with proficiency in reading and understanding the flow of a large/complicated stored procedure
• Experience using Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, and Cypress
• Experience using Postman, REST-assured, JMeter, or Locust
• Experience working in Azure DevOps pipelines and other Azure cloud environments

Experience

• 10 years of relevant experience
  • * may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
• Directive 8570.1/8140 – IAT II: Security+
• 4+ years in testing the infrastructure as code (IAC) or other similar technologies to deploy the microservice application infrastructure
• 4+ years conducting manual testing
• 5+ years of testing front-end applications using automation
• 5+ years of testing back-end applications using automation
• 5+ years End-to-End DevOps hands-on knowledge, test automation with tools like GitHub, ADOPS, or similar CI/CD tools
• 3+ years of application development and/or testing in Agile methodology
• 5+ years software QA and testing experience
• Experience implementing automated testing processes with tools such as Junit, Selenium/Cypress, 508 testing, and performance testing
• Experience using MS Visio for updating diagrams
• Experience working in Federal or State government environments
• Ability to work independently and remotely

Certification: Security+
 

Travel Required: Little to no travel anticipated (may be required upon customer request)

Location: Hybrid (on-site classified network support required for Washington DC client)

US Citizenship: U.S. Citizenship required
 

GDIT Is Your Place:

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home 
• 401K with company match 
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages 
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career 
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications 
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from 
• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays