Lead Test Engineer

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Job Description:

Parsons has emerged as a leader in the development of cutting-edge solutions for the Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and other government agencies. Our tremendous success can be attributed to our people and our priorities. We hire the best; we make them a priority and we never lose focus on the mission. It’s why we’re here. We have built this cultural legacy by working closely with analysts and operators to understand their needs and delivering meaningful value through innovative, cost effective and intuitive software solutions.

Our Space Operations directorate is passionate about making America the undisputed leader in Space because we understand that ensuring our nation’s security for future generations depends on it. Parsons creates game changing solutions by teaming highly respected subject matter experts with brilliant technologists. Are you an experienced software test engineer that has developed and managed software testing activities for enterprise level systems? Do you want to be part of a team that is helping the government solve major national security challenges in the space domain? We need your help.

Our team is looking for an experienced test engineer that has developed, managed and executed software testing paradigms. In this position, you will be a member of a growing Agile team supporting the development of critical mission applications for the space community as a member of Parsons’ Space Operations Directorate. You will work with software engineers and space analysts to create space situational awareness solutions for the space domain stakeholders.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and execute automated and manual tests for a wide range of services and features
• Manage test teams in multiple locations under one test methodology
• Identify, analyze, and document defects and track resolutions
• Lead and participate in test planning, project status meetings and reviews
• Design and develop a reliable, scalable and maintainable test framework
• Manage test schedule, planning and execution, across all development efforts
• Design, manage and execute testing against web services
• Manage test analytics process in determining test coverage against all services
• Author test plans and reports
• Design, maintain test cards across all development efforts
• Brief customers on status of tests and readiness of development cycles

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline, with at least 8 years of software testing experience; relevant experience may be accepted in place of a degree
• Experience writing test plans, test scenarios, test cases, execution of test cases and documentation and interpretation of test results
• Experience with some or all phases of testing: functional, regression, integration, and performance testing
• Extensive design and understanding of Agile test methodology principles
• Experience creating manual test scripts from scratch
• Great interpersonal and communications skills, while establishing and maintaining effective work relationships with team members
• Must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, flexible environment, and take the initiative to learn new tools and concepts quickly.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in both spoken and written English
• Experience with REST API testing using tools such as Postman
• Experience with automated testing using frameworks like Robot Framework
• Minimum of 2 years of team management experience
• Must be a US Citizen

Desired Skills

• Experience working with multiple development teams
• Ability to work with vague or changing requirements
• Security+ certification
• Ability to obtain a security clearance
• Experience testing microservice architectures
• Experience testing pub/sub messaging systems like Apache Kafka
• Experience testing data workflow engines like Apache Nifi
• Experience with cloud environments like AWS
• Experience with 1 or more scripting languages like Python and Javascript
• Experience testing database technologies like SQL and NoSQL

Minimum Clearance Required to Start:

Not Applicable/None

This position is part of our Federal Solutions tea