Quality Assurance Analyst - Hybrid

Candidate Must Be LocalCandidate MUST be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident
Specific Services Required:
In the role of the Automation QA Engineer, the following services are required:

• Follow the core technology and architecture for automated testing of large scale distributed systems, midrange to client server and n tier e commerce applications and solutions.
• Follow specifications to automate the testing of applications.
• Work on all test automation components of solution and create/maintain required technical documentation.
• Follow developed strategies for end to end system testing.
• Assist in all testing processes involving the migration and integration of new and legacy technologies.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver business and technical value.
• Must be very organized, pro-active and self-directed. Must be able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Must have very strong abstract thinking and problem solving skills.
• Must have very good verbal and written communication skills.
• Work with the Quality Assurance Manager to establish goals and release quality while meeting requirements of projects.
• Takes proactive escalation of system problems or design flaws to upper management before serious impact on ROI.
• Follows the testing standards and strategies and uses them correctly.
• Makes sure the software and system testing frameworks are in synchronization.
• Provide input as needed to issues like tool and environment selection.
• Interface with the user(s) and sponsor(s) and all other stakeholders in order to determine their (evolving) needs.
• Follows the set standards for the automated testing software, policies and execution.
• Reviews all system requirements, test scripts, test scenarios in order to create appropriate testing workflow. Ensures that this set of high level requirements is consistent, complete, correct, and operationally defined.
• Reviews software components and collaborates with development group, Product Owners, System Teams, and Operations to ensure best overall testing strategies, best practices and techniques for automated testing.
• Interfaces with the design and implementation teams, so that any problems arising during QA can be resolved in accordance with the fundamental design concepts, and user needs and constraints.
• Collaborates on a set of acceptance test requirements, together with the project teams, and the user, which determine that all of the high level requirements have been met, especially for the computer-human-interface.
• Generates products such as unit tests, automated functional tests, regression tests, load tests, code coverage reports, and test scenario % pass/fail, ADA/508c/AWGA compliance, Cross Browser Compatibility, Mobile Compatibility.
• Ensures that all testing libraries and artifacts are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.
• Responsible for creating automated test case scenarios for Agile Delivery Team to meet Acceptance Criteria

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
In addition, the agency requires:
For this position, the candidate shares experience and judgment with team to plan and accomplish goals, mentors less experienced staff, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. In addition, the agency requires:
An experienced professional with demo the following knowledge and skills:

• Experience with Automated Testing Frameworks, Test Strategies and Test Beds.
• Experience with Client QC, UFT
• Experience with Microsoft Dynamics
• Experience Microsoft SharePoint
• Experience with .Net Framework
• Experience with C# Development
• Experience with ASP.NET Web Development
• Experience with Software Development
• Experience with TDD/BDD
• Experience with Agile Methodologies
• Experience with Software Testing Methodologies
• Experience Leading a Software Testing Team
• Involved in a minimum of two large scaled Agile software development projects
• Knowledge of Testing Tools, Testing Frameworks, Continuous Integration Methodologies
• Knowledge of Web Application Testing, Distributed System Testing, Performance Testing, Regression Testing, Database Testing, Mobile Testing, Security Testing, Accessibility Testing, Web Service Testing.
• Knowledge of Virtualized Hosting Environments
• Knowledge of .Net, SharePoint, Dynamics Web Application Hosting Environment
• Knowledge of .Net, SharePoint, Dynamics Web Application Performance
• Knowledge of .Net, SharePoint, Dynamics Web Application Security
• Knowledge of Data Modeling and Database Design
• Knowledge of Application Modeling and Design
• Knowledge of Service Oriented Architectures
• Experience with automated testing in enterprise system integration projects and initiatives; understanding of and experience implementing enterprise integration patterns.
• Thorough understanding of standard QA best practices in an Agile environment including authoring test plans and test cases, executing tests and tracking issues to closure
• Good understanding of SOA.
• Good understanding of DevOps
• Experience in Test Driven Development and testing tools and techniques.
• Object-Oriented design principles and design patterns

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

• UML modelling
• BPMN modelling
• Experience with code control/version/build Team Foundation or Azure DevOps
• Experience with web automation suites e.g Selenium
• Working automated testing knowledge for C#, WCF, JQuery, XML, JSON, WebApi, SOAP, .NET, JavaScript.
• Testing experience with Web Services (REST, SOAP, WCF) and tools such as SOAPUI and SOAPSonar.
• BS in Computer science, engineering, or technology-related baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university, or commensurate experience.