Location
Sterling, IL | United States
Job description
We are seeking for talented Testers that are willing to learn new technologies to support an innovative mission. The ideal candidate is a tester passionate about helping to drive our customers’ and company missions forward. The candidate must be self-motivated, a quick learner, and able to balance simultaneous tasks to keep pace with our team of high performers.
GENERAL DUTIES:
- Learn how to utilize our software from an end-user perspective
- Write and run automated front-end regression tests
- Write and perform manual regression testing procedures
- Document test performance, bugs, and design inefficiencies in the software
- Assist developers in creating realistic testing scenarios.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years related work experience in software test engineering
- Test engineering experience in a government contracting environment
- Experience with aspects of software development: infrastructure, design, development, test/QA, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance
- Organized and capable of documenting existing test capabilities, test performance, and test needs
- Team player – support, back-up and collaborate with other testers, developers, and associated operations integration team
- Strong communication – clear, concise, collaborative, well-spoken/written, capable of remaining calm while discussing difficult issues with customers and employees
- Self-motivated to explore new and better ways of improving our test performance and coverage
- Security+ Certification; or obtained within the first six (6) months of employment
- Experience writing and running automated back-end tests
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with Agile methodologies and working on an Agile development program
- Experience with test automation frameworks
- Comfortable in Linux and Windows
- Experience with command/line scripting, such as Bash
- Any experience in these areas: AWS (Amazon Web Services), Docker/Kubernetes, Document-Oriented Data Stores (i.e. Elasticsearch, Solr), Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and OGC WMS/WFS, Javascript, HTML5, CSS, and RESTful APIs, Git
CLEARANCE:
- US Citizenship required and willingness and ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance and a CI Polygraph
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