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Background:
This is an opportunity to work at a world-famous, federally funded research & development organization with a great culture.
They have a need of a Quality Assurance Specialist/Test Engineer to assist with the Testing, Automation andsoftware development.
Key Points:
- Title: Quality Assurance Specialist
- Location: Lexington, MA(Great Boston Area)
- Job Type: W2 Contract
Position Scope/Job Functions
- Quality Assurance of a high-availability server and network infrastructure composed of numerous software components.
- Design and Implementation of Software Quality Assurance best practices in order to ensure reliable software releases into production.
- Document test methodologies like test plans.
- Develop automated testing capabilities.
- Testing software components in a variety of server and network configurations.
- Troubleshooting issues, and identifying software defects.
- Recommend process and technology improvements to testing approach and test infrastructure.
Skills: Required
- Experience in Linux development, specifically Ubuntu.
- Strong experience in developing test automation frameworks using Python, Selenium, shell etc.
- Experience with software development in Python.
- Experience with Git or similar source control repository and CI/CD tool.
- Experience with Ansible or similar configuration management tool.
- Strong experience with creating and maintaining documentation, test plans, and reporting on test results as needed for operations and maintenance.
- Experience implementing security measures.
- Experience implementing security patches and updates and software code quality.
Skills: Preferred
- Experience with software development in C/C++.
- Experience and skill with Qemu/KVM or similar virtualization technology.
- Experience with Elastic Stack (ELK) or similar log aggregation and data visualization tool.
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana or similar time series metric data collection and visualization tools.
- Experience with Docker or similar container technology.
- Experience with Kubernetes or similar container orchestrator.
Education and Experience: 5 + years of experience is required.
Work Authorization: US Citizenship is required.
"We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law."
