Test Automation Engineer

Test Automation Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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What you’ll get to do:

CACI is currently looking for an experienced IBM Maximo Test Engineer to join our BEAGLE (Border Enforcement Applications for Government Leading-Edge Information Technology) Agile Solution Factory (ASF) Team supporting Customs and Border Protection (CBP) client located in Northern Virginia! Join this passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

As a member of the BEAGLE ASF Team, you will support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. CBP agents and officers are on the front lines, every day, protecting our national security by combining customs, immigration, border security, and agricultural protection into one coordinated and supportive activity.

ASF programs thrive in a culture of innovation and are constantly seeking individuals who can bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels.

More About the Role:

• Develop Test procedures – Create test procedures for current set of backlog items: system, functional, regression, performance, load, installation, security, interoperability, stress, boundary; defining tests for backlog items; estimating tasks needed for creating manual tests; and assessing candidates to automate for regression tests

• Develop and implement quality assurance methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures in a large computer-based organization.

• Develop and execute software test plans, test cases, and test scripts for Integration, Migration, Regression, and/or Performance testing, and IA and disaster recovery, in order to identify system and software problems and their causes, recording defect backlog items, reporting the results of testing and resolving testing defects.

• Establish and maintain a process for evaluating hardware, software, and associated documentation and assisting in their evaluation.

• Map tasks and tests to backlog items (requirements traceability).

• Support independent User Acceptance Testing

• Act as a member of a product team supporting teammates and collaborating with a do what it takes attitude to ensure product and team success.

• Active participation in Agile Scrum sprint planning, artifact creation, sprint testing, regression testing, demonstrations and retrospectives and solution releases.

• Work closely with developers, professional services team and product managers to define the automated testing components that will be used to validate requirements against developed software.

• Work closely with Product Owners to understand product specifics and to create corresponding automation test strategies.

• Assist with design of test scenarios and test plans to ensure that automated tests can be implemented and executed against.

• Assist with creating project resource estimates, metrics to track completion phase, defect reports, defect prevention, development efficiency and quality

• Contribute to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations agile project lifecycle.

• Run test validations at various levels including DB validation, logging validation, and UI validation.

You Will Bring These Qualifications:

• College degree (B.S. or greater) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems, or a related discipline. Will consider experience in lieu of degree

• Three (3+) or more years of testing or related IT experience, with 2 or more years analyzing, designing, and implementing integrated testing solutions.

• Demonstrated experience with web application front-end and back-end scripting and automation

• Experience testing solutions developed in Java.

• Experience with continuous integration tools and environments and automated testing.

• Aptitude to write test documentation - Test Plans; Test Procedures; Change Requests; System Requirements Documents; Problem Reports, Discrepancy Reports

• Familiarity with Information Security best practices

• Skill to apply test estimation techniques to software development efforts

• Hands on programming experience with Java programming

• Familiar working with an