Manual Tester - Test Engineer Lcat (Digital Gi Bill)

Position:  Manual Tester - Test Engineer LCAT
Job Type:  Full-Time
Length of Contract:  1 year
Location: Remote (Preference for candidates in Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia and San Antonio)
POSITION OVERVIEW
SteerBridge Strategies is supporting a national-level program for the Veterans Benefits Administration (“VBA”) to modernize its delivery of educational benefits to Veterans. The Digital GI Bill (DGIB) is a top priority for our strategic partner, Accenture Federal Services (AFS). As partners, SteerBridge and AFS are looking for the most talented IT professionals to join this dynamic, multi-year opportunity.
The VBA is responsible for administering the department's programs that provide financial and other forms of assistance to veterans, their dependents, and survivors. Claims are currently processed at Regional Processing Offices by Claims Examiners. The VBA envisions improved customer service and mission accomplishment by digitizing the process. This project will provide a user-friendly service for beneficiaries to apply, withdraw, amend, transfer or perform other actions with improved timeliness and accuracy of award decisions. Due to the technical deficit in the VBA’s application and IT infrastructure, implementing these changes will be challenging and under an aggressive timeline.
LOCATION

• This is a REMOTE position.
• Candidates are expected to travel for co-located working sessions (approximately 10-12 times a year) to AFS office in Chantilly, VA, or other locations as needed.
• Preference for candidates local to Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia, and San Antonio.

REQUIRED

• Must be a US Citizen, Dual Citizen, or Green Card Holder (Permanent Resident).
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering or other Engineering or Technical discipline is required plus a minimum of five (5) years related work experience. Eight (8) years of may be substituted for education, for a total of thirteen (13) years of work experience.
• Must be able to pass a Public Trust background check.
• Travel to the AFS office in Chantilly, VA, or other locations as needed.
• Must be able to work East Coast business hours.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / QUALIFICATIONS

• Must have experience in the coordination and execution of test events in accordance with approved test plans, procedures and scripts.
• Must have knowledge and skills to ensure that test environments are set up accurately.
• Must be able to create test reports. 
• Must be able to test IT hardware, software, systems and networks.

SKILLS

• Experience working in the software development life cycle including hands on experience with Quality Assurance/Testing (application, product, system, integrated, regression testing)
• Experience with automated testing tools (Worksoft Certify, HP UFT/BPT, Tricentis Tosca, or Selenium framework)
• Experience with a programming language (VB, VBScript, Java, C#, Ruby, Python) and core Java knowledge with OOP concepts
• Experience with having worked with the maintenance of an automation framework
• Selenium, JUnit or TestNG, Cucumber BDD
• Database testing with strong SQL knowledge, web Services Testing, API (Rest Assured), mobile app testing 508 testing
• AWS/Azure
• Jenkins
• Orchestration knowledge (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Katalon or other codeless automation tools

COMPENSATION
(Starting from $90,000.00) A salary commensurate with background and experience will be offered.
BENEFITS

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) with matching
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Federal Holidays

SteerBridge Strategies is committed to equal employment opportunity and nondiscrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person’s race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected under applicable law. SteerBridge Strategies will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities in accordance with applicable law.