You…

As a Senior Manual/Automated Tester with Octo, you will join a highly visible Agile project for a government client. You will be responsible for SQA testing, which includes test plans and scripts for automated smoke, functional, integration, user acceptance, regression, load, and interface testing. Using leading-edge testing methodologies and tools, you'll generate data and execute the test cases to see how the software performs, then document the results and communicate defects to the development team so they can start improving the tool. You are agile, fearless, enthusiastic, empathic, and relentless in the pursuit of continuous improvement. You love testing and take pride in your work with a focus on quality. You are a strong collaborator with the ability to help guide team members toward higher quality and more reliable software. You manage your time and projects with the ability to meet scheduled deadlines.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

The project you will be working is to migrate an existing legacy government system to a more evolvable architecture that can better leverage a cloud environment to deliver better technology, reduce program sustainment costs, and higher system reliability. Our approach is to modernize current applications by breaking them down into loosely coupled micro-services and leveraging a continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline to enable an agile DevOps Strategy. The team will work collaboratively with the customer, using Agile development best practices, to develop, test and deploy release into the production environment on an incremental release schedule.

Requirements...

• Develop scenarios and automated test scripts to validate application integration points.
• Work with development team members to ensure test scripts developed fully address the integration test scenarios.
• Review test artifacts with development team, as needed.
• Develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated tests.
• Monitor test progress and report status.
• Log defects, validate associated fixes, retest, and certify the code is ready to be promoted to the next stage of the development cycle.
• Create, maintain, and extend the test case library.
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies including daily stand-up, Sprint Review, Sprint planning, and Sprint retrospective.
• Work closely with development teams to resolve issues identified during testing.
• Work closely with the business analyst to develop manual and automated test scripts.

Desired Skills:

• Skilled in developing Java or Python scripts and executing them to test Java application using Selenium, Cucumber, Jenkins, or any other open-source tools for functional and regression testing.
• Experience with testing applications in an Agile software development environment.
• Demonstrated experience with different phases of testing such as functional, End to End, integration, regression, performance, load, and 508 accessibility.
• Ability to execute the test plan, document results, and generate test reports.
• Working experience managing test planning, test design, test procedures, test scripts and test execution.
• Experience coordinating the development, tracking, resolution, and reporting of test defects per test environment.
• Strong fundamentals in QA methodologies and procedures, test planning and test case development.
• Strong attention to details.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, time management, and organizational skills.
• Work experience with Agile or/and Scrum software development methodology.
• Work experience developing Test Plans.
• Work experience with Test Automation.
• Work experience testing RESTful APIs.
• Work experience with AWS resources (EC2, S3)
• Previous experiences in a government consulting environment.

Years of Experience: At least 7+ years or more of application testing experience

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree, or the equivalent combination of education, professional training, or work experience.

Location: Remote

Clearance: Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance.