Sr. Quality Assurance Tester

Join the ITility team and make a difference! ITility seeks a talented Quality Assurance Tester to support our contract with the United States Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM) onsite in Waukegan, IL in the Great Lakes area. ITility is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business with a passion to equip our nation’s armed forces and first responders with the very best to empower their missions. From the virtual battlefield to boots on the ground, our people, processes, and performance drive our ability to help our clients protect what matters, now and for generations to come.  We provide enterprise IT support to USMEPCOM, a Major Command of the United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD), which screens and processes applicants into the U.S. Armed Forces. USMEPCOM is the vital link between recruiting and training armed forces and operates 65 Military Entrance Processing Stations (MEPS) located throughout the U.S.

ITility is a Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business with a passion to equip our nation’s armed forces and first responders with the very best to empower their missions. From the virtual battlefield to boots on the ground, our people, processes, and performance drive our ability to help our clients protect what matters, now and for generations to come.

At ITility, we help our customers command the future by thinking beyond perceived limits to create new, unexpected ways to protect and defend our nation. We inspire and empower people to create significant solutions that secure what matters to our customers and communities, here and around the globe.

We Value:

• The Drive to Perform Beyond Perceived Limits.
• The Desire to Find Significance in All We Do.
• The Passion and Compassion That Powers Both.

Essential Functions, Responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to:

• The successful candidate will help by working with the USMEPCOM Application Operations team to create a positive experience in the implementation and use of technology by ensuring products meet business and technical requirements.
• Support the creation, maintenance, and management of test plans, test suites, estimation, test artifacts, and test cases within a test management system for manual and/or automated testing;
• Execute manual or automated testing using documented test cases as determined by the test plan;
• Maintain a customer service-oriented approach when working with team members and partners;
• Working with modern automation frameworks for web and mobile applications;
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, AWS cloud architecture, and using Jira and Confluence tools;
• Report/track bugs for every release and track them till they are closed
• Proactive and strong communicator in both technical and business settings;
• An expert in software testing practices for web apps
• Other duties as assigned.

• Mandatory Qualifications include:

  • Must be a US Citizen and able to pass and maintain a DoD security clearance
  • Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related IT discipline
  • 5+ years of experience as a Tester performing automated scripting using Java and Selenium framework
  • Candidate should have a working knowledge with an automation framework (e.g., Behavior Driven Development (BDD) or Test NG)
  • Knowledge of incorporating automation reporting tools (e.g., Cucumber)
  • Familiarity with deployment tools like Jenkins and exposure working in AWS environments.
  • 2+ years of knowledge working with performance tools (e.g., JMeter)
  • 2+ years of experience on REST API testing with tools (e.g., POSTMAN)
  • Must have knowledge of SQL for validating Database objects
  • Minimum of 2+ years on an Agile Software Development team deploying bi-weekly Sprints
  • Candidate should be able to mentor junior candidates on testing and as well automation
  • Reporting defects in Jira or similar tools and providing risk management to the management team.
  • Provide feedback and develop knowledge base in tools like confluence pages

ITility is committed to providing a work environment that is non-discriminatory, harassment free, fair, ethical and inclusive.

ITility is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity, and complies with all applicable laws which prohibit discrimination and harassment in the workplace. ITility strictly prohibits discrimination or harassment based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability or any other characteristic protected by law in all terms, conditions and privileges of employment, including without limitation, recruiting, hiring, assignment, compensation, promotion, discipline and termination. This policy covers conduct occurring at ITility’s offices, client sites, other locations where ITility is providing services, and to all work-related activities.