Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a highly motivated Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Veterans Affairs VBA COE team to help develop and support Veterans Benefits Administration business stakeholders in a fast paced and high energy Agile development environment. As a Salesforce QA Engineer, you will work in a highly collaborative environment interfacing with Salesforce developers, Scrum masters and Product Owners to help test and deliver critical Salesforce solutions for our customer. Specifically, drive SaaS/PaaS solution delivery in support of customer workstreams, testing strategy as well as creating, maintaining, executing testing solutions. The selected individual will play a pivotal role in supporting our SaaS/PaaS capabilities, work with various business and technology stakeholders and be part of the VBA center of excellence.

What you’ll do: 

• Collaborate with the product owner, product analysts and the engineering team to identify the appropriate Functional and Regression test cases for the user stories in the SaaS/PaaS backlog.
• Responsible for creating the test data for the developer/analyst using automation scripts and assist Developer/Analyst and product owners in test execution activities.
• Responsible for test cases, test scripts, test plan, end to end test scenarios and assist in defining the acceptance criteria for the requirements.
• Work alongside a great team of engineers, delivery leads and business analysts who constantly strive towards developing each other and driving the organization's aspirations ahead.
• Participate in the product increment planning and document test plan and test scenarios in collaboration with the product owner, product analysts and engineers.
• Assist Test Leads/Peers in creating the overall test plan and strategy for each initiative and product rollout.
• Breakdown the complexity of the test scenarios into unit, system, and user acceptance categories
• Clearly document the test scenarios for all user stories in the product backlog
• Perform validation of Platform customization through the sprints – Integration and User environment
• Own the system integration testing and move the user stories ahead into user acceptance testing.
• Ensure business stakeholders are completing user acceptance testing and obtain approval to release to production.
• Coordinate and Assist UAT teams in validating that product enhancements meet intended requirements.
• Ensure that platform backlog is comprehensive with sized user stories, enriched with testing estimates for developing automation scripts where applicable.
• Track all dependent team's testing and ensure smooth sprint completion.
• Follow up with all engineers to ensure the stories are moved through the SIT, UAT environments in time.
• Assist in coordinating the go-live Quality Assurance activities including the test execution of the production specific test plans and checklists.
• Assist in ensuring that sprint goals are met each sprint.
• Own any production defects validation, test, and funnel them through sprints towards fixes as applicable.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• BS 2-4 Years, MS 0-2, or HS 8-10, 6 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Must be a U.S Citizen
• Ability obtain a Public Trust clearance. 
• 4+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, which includes Functional, Automation, Regression, System, Integration, Validation, UAT Coordination and End to End testing on Web based Applications.
• Experience in testing web services, UI and Mobile Responsive and native app testing
• Experience in developing test plans, test procedures, test completion reports, test metrics, test scripts, test cases and root cause analysis
• Experience with Regression testing including writing regression test scenarios and execution

Desired Qualifications:

• 4+ Years of experience in SaaS/PaaS testing, and experience in testing applications/platforms
• Knowledge of Salesforce Software QA methodologies, tools, procedures, and testing techniques.
• Experience in test data management tools for data retrieval from SQL/TDM tools
• Ability to Independently drive projects and outcomes, work with minimal supervision. Strong problem solving, critical thinking, organization, and communication skills. Must be flexible to learn / adapt new coding language as required. Develop new utilities to support test automation needs.
• Team player who can work with different teams in the organization in a seamless manner.
• Experience in test case management using ADO or Confluence
• Development experience will be a huge plus but not