Automated Test Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph

Type of Requisition:

Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Suitability:

Public Trust/Other Required:

None

Job Family:

Software Development

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Automated Testing, Automation Frameworks, Test Automation Tools

Certifications:

Experience:

6 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

Yes

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as an Automated Test Engineer supporting customer activities. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As an Automated Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on an Automated Test Engineer joining our highly skilled team to be a premier provider of cyber security services to the customer.  We provide consummate cyber security risk management “as a service” platform across multiple fabrics and centers.  We have responsibility to ensure operational IT capabilities provide the client with necessary timeliness, accuracy and security of information demanded from all our highly professional roles. Be the change, lead our change – join us!

HOW AUTOMATED TEST ENGINEER SUPPORT WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Work with a team of systems engineers and software developers to specify, design, develop, test and deploy the end-state system. Development will take place in an iterative fashion using scrum techniques with inputs from multiple stakeholders. The work will be done in a dynamic stakeholder environment within AWS. Communicate with team leads and senior leadership and rapidly adjust direction in support of new and/or changing requirements. This effort will include a variety of activities, including:
• Developing test plans based on software requirements and technical specifications.
• Identifying new test scenarios and create detailed test cases to cover all aspects of the software.
• Performing functional, regression, integration, usability, and performance testing as necessary.
• Documenting defects and track them to resolution.
• Working closely with team members to clarify requirements and resolve issues
• Test Data Creation
• Familiar with the creation and updating of various file formats (e.g. XML, JSON, CSV, Microsoft Excel)
• Programming languages (e.g. Python, R, SQL) commonly used for data manipulation and generation.
• Scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell) commonly used to automate routine tasks.
• Working with databases and SQL for querying, inserting, and updating data as part of the generation process.
• Assessing quality and validity of generated data.
• Addressing challenges in data generation, such as generating data in formats suitable for specific applications.
• Documenting data generation processes, including parameters used, assumptions made, and transformations applied.
• Automated Software Testing
• Working with test automation tools (e.g. Selenium WebDriver, Appium, Cypress, JMeter) to validate web-based applications.
• Working with automation frameworks (e.g. JUnit, TestNG, NUnit, Protractor, PyTest) to test custom applications.
• Understanding how to test headless applications using application programming interfaces (e.g. REST).
• Debugging automated test scripts and understand application logs and error messages to pinpoint issues.
• Working with large and small teams of software developers as part of an Agile process.
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. GitHub, GitLab) for managing code and collaborating with other team members.
• Working with CI/CD products (e.g. Jenkins, AWS Pipeline, Azure DevOps) and integrating automated tests into the CI/CD process.
• Working within cloud-based platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure)

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: Bachelors Degree (Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or a closely related discipline)