Customer Acceptance Tester (CAT)

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

MBI (T2)

Job Family:

IT Quality Assurance

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Agile Methodology, Java, Quality Assurance (QA)

Certifications:

Experience:

3 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Customer Acceptance Tester (CAT) supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Customer Acceptance Tester (CAT), you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on a CAT Tester joining our team to prepare, execute, and manage the CAT testing process for our government customer, the United States Postal Service.

HOW A CAT TESTER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• This role will be responsible for daily interaction with business and technology teams across several applications to ensure successful CAT execution as well as to prepare daily summarized outputs on progress and issue remediation plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify test requirements, validate test scenarios, execute test cases, and track defects through the testing lifecycle.
• Collaborate with different leads to ensure testing deadlines are met.
• Ensure test results are being well documented, test artifacts are developed and attached in ALM and CAT artifacts are generated and shared with the right stakeholders.
• Manage the defect process according to the CAT Approach/Plan, promptly addressing critical issues and driving to resolution.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:

• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is preferred; OR four additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a college degree is required. If degree is not in the applicable field, then four additional years of related experience is required.

Required Experience:

• A minimum of 3-7 years of relevant professional work experience

Required Technical Skills:

• Proficient experience working Java, Python, R, XML, JSON
• Proficient experience working in Agile and Waterfall development practices and associated testing strategies
• Demonstrated experience working with ALM, UFT, Selenium and VersionOne
• Demonstrated experience working with DB tools like SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis

Required Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to develop/modify, document, and execute test scripts, test cases, and test scenarios based upon software requirements definition, in concert with the business process analysis and customer-driven change requests
• Demonstrated ability to work with test leads to develop test plans
• Demonstrated ability to write and implement manual and automated QA test plans using technical requirements or design specifications and produce automated test cases
• Demonstrated skill to execute and document test activities
• Strong ability to conduct detailed analysis of test results found through both manual and automated testing
• Demonstrated ability to log relevant detailed defects, follow-through with the associated teams for defect resolution and retest the fixed defect
• Proficient in investigating and proposing methods and standards for continuous process improvement

Preferred Skills:

• Experience working with mail.xml
• Experience working with Shipping Services File and PostalOne eVS System

Security Clearance Level:

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Ci