Integration Testing Engineer (Senior)

ECS is seeking an Integration Testing Engineer (Senior) to work in our Washington, DC office / remote.
Job Description:
The primary mission of the Mint is to produce an adequate volume of circulating coinage for the Nation to conduct its trade and commerce. The Mint also produces and sells numismatic coins, American Eagle gold and silver bullion coins, and national medals. The USM Sales and Marketing Division is responsible for the end-to-end product lifecycle of manufactured products.
The Sales and Marketing mission requires the implementation and testing of a SaaS solution to support its eCommerce goals. The importance of comprehensive testing program and its impact on the US Mint (USM) Sales and Marketing mission and SaaS solution cannot be overestimated. It is critical that the Sales and Marketing business processes remain functional, reliable, and available to support USM's mission and Sales and Marketing objectives. The Sales and Marketing require full life cycle testing support to validate and verify all requirements are met, testing cycles are scheduled and coordinated, testing results tracked and reported, and all testing exit criteria are satisfied.
Given the customer facing requirement of the SaaS solution, it's critical that system performance constraints do not adversely impact the user experience. As a result, identifying USM's peak day performance volume requirements and validating that the requirements are met will be key to the go live approval for the overall SaaS solution. To this end, ECS will support USM by validating performance criteria are included in the test cases and observed during this test phase, and issues are logged and addressed prior to release into production.
ECS will assist USM with the planning and coordination of the performance and stress testing phase.
The Performance Testing Engineer is responsible for:
Work in conjunction with the Mint customer to plan for load and stress testing and monitor the progress of the SaaS solution.
Work in conjunction with the Mint customer to ensure:

1. SaaS is utilizing correct peak-day order volume for testing
2. Results are acceptable against criteria
3. Issues identified are remediated prior to Go Live

Collaborate with the Mint customer to ensure all parties are prepared for load and stress testing. Load and stress test assistance support activities include:

1. Assist with test scheduling and coordination
2. Develop readiness checklist that documents USM's expectations
3. Review test plan to ensure:
   • Test plan specifies different user groups and scenarios that will be required for load and stress testing
   • Testing emulates a realistic load that will correlate with realistic usage
   • Test criteria is written in a manner that results will indicate whether or not the solution can be accepted and deployed

Upon completion of load and stress testing, this role will coordinate and facilitate a test exit review with the Mint PMO, SaaS and any stakeholder and executives, where all deliverables will be formally accepted and concurrence obtained to proceed to the next phase.

• Collaborate with USM and the SaaS vendor to ensure all requirements reflect the user, functional, integration, security, Section 508, and performance requirements for this transactional eCommerce based solution and that the requirements are achievable as well as testable.

Required Skills:

• At least 10 years of experience of which 6 years must be in a specialized area in the IT field. Specialization must include
  • performance testing experience
  • performance load criteria development
  • developing functional requirements with complex integrated IT systems
• Bachelors degree. With a Master's Degree in the same areas as the Bachelor's Degree requirement, 8 years of general experience of which at least 4 years must be specialized.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Organized, detail-oriented, able to work independently.
• Excellent communication skills, with both technical and non-technical personnel at all levels of management.
• Able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• Must have one of the following certifications or the equivalent throughout the life of the task order: ECBA, CCBA, CBAP, CSPO, IIBA, PMI, PBA, and Agile Analysis Certification

Desired Skills:

• Identifying and developing performance load for test case development
• Automated performance testing experience
• Experience with ALM and Octane tools.

Salary Range: $109,745.03 - $164,617.55
ECS is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law. ECS promotes affirmative action for minorities, women, disabled persons, and veterans.
ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. We are focused on people, values and purpose. Every day, our 3800 employees focus on providing their technical talent to support the Federal Agencies and Departments of the US Government to serve, protect and defend the American People.