Overview

Steampunk is looking for you to join our team as a Test Engineer. You will work with our growing DevSecOps practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud and data systems development. 

Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers  
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters 
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, final QA reports for products 
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests 
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline the test procedures 
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results, including three or more of the following: 

• Data validation testing 
• Functional testing 
• Performance and load testing 
• Usability testing 
• Accessibility (508) testing 

• Establishing automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation 
• Provide validation testing of different system and data sets for cloud migrations 

• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency 
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes  
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats 
• Working 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 a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations  
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing software systems 
• Work with teams to bring continuous improvement to DevSecOps processes and tools. 
• Engineer and implement solutions and provide recommendations for continuous improvement for the 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 

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance 
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience 
• Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket 
• Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages 
• Application DevSecOps experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment 
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes 

• 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 

Preferred: 

• MS Degree 
• Certifications: 

• CAST (Certified Associate in Software Testing) 
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Certification 
• Certified Manager of Software Testing (CMST) 
• DHS Trusted Tester Certification (TTv5) 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills 
• Experience with documenting an as-is state of the environment, perform a gap analysis, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations preferred