COMPLETE QA Test Engineer

Introduction
As a Test Specialist at IBM, your analytical and technical skills will directly impact the quality of the software we create. Come work in an agile environment where you will help each iteration reach the next level. Whether the testing is manual, automated, or cognitive, you hold a key role in releasing the best deliverables to IBM’ers and our clients.

Your Role and Responsibilities

Octo, an IBM company, is an industry-leading, award-winning provider of technical solutions for the federal government. At Octo, we specialize in providing agile software engineering, user experience design, cloud services, and digital strategy services that address government's most pressing missions. Octo delivers intelligent solutions and rapid results, yielding lower costs and measurable outcomes.

Our team is what makes Octo great. At Octo you'll work beside some of the smartest and most accomplished staff you'll find in your career. Octo offers fantastic benefits and an amazing workplace culture where you will feel valued while you perform mission critical work for our government. Voted one of the region’s best places to work multiple times, Octo is an employer of choice!

You…

As a Quality Assurance and Automation Test Engineer you will be responsible for supporting the overall application testing requirements of this program. You will support the Lead Automation Engineer by testing for application defects against the approved application requirements stored as JIRA user stories. The application to be tested is hosted in a cloud environment and based supported by AWS serverless services like Lambda, API gateway and others. You will be expected to understand basic cloud concepts, be able to interact with AWS Lambda functions, and troubleshoot identified problem areas through AWS CloudWatch and CloudTrail. As part of testing, you will develop test cases aligned to a test plan for the application functionality previously described, and for data validation efforts of items stored in relational and non-relational databases like Aurora MySQL or DynamoDB respectively. You are a motivated independent individual who enjoys complex application functionality, a fast-paced work environment and supporting customers on their modernization journeys to modern cloud environments.

Us…

We were founded as a fresh alternative in the Government Consulting Community and are dedicated to the belief that results are a product of analytical thinking, agile design principles and that solutions are built in collaboration with, not for, our customers. This mantra drives us to succeed and act as true partners in advancing our client’s missions.

Program Mission…

The project you will be working is to modernize an existing legacy mainframe application to an AWS cloud based, serverless environment supporting forward leaning cloud architectures, reduce program sustainment costs, and increase system reliability. Our approach is to transform legacy applications to be cloud native and reside in a VPC as a Service (VPCaaS). Additionally, modernize current applications by breaking them down into loosely coupled micro-services, and leveraging a continuous integration / continuous delivery pipeline to enable an agile DevOps Strategy.

Years of Experience: 5+ years of experience

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a Technical Discipline – Computer Science, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree, [or the equivalent combination of education, professional training, or work experience].

Location: Remote

Clearance: Ability to obtain Public Trust

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Provide testing expertise and support and ensure testing best practices for the program to usability, functional, integration, cyber security test, user acceptance test, 508 Compliance test and operational testing.
• Test AWS serverless services like Lambda and S3 by uploading content to dedicated buckets, construct and provide JSON payloads as function inputs, or pass messages through API testing tools like Postman.
• Conduct data validation test cases to ensure proper data load, manipulation, or other transformations that result from CRUD operations.
• Perform all aspects of system verification, including all phases of the testing process. Support test planning, test design, test procedures, test scripts, test execution, and test evaluation.
• Contribute to the development of a test plan in an operational environment. Then execute and document results of the approved test plan against.
• Work with the Developers and Business Analysts to identify test scenarios based on business requirements discussed in Sprint planning and Backlog grooming and work with the BA and Scrum Master to document test cases, user stories, and results in Jira and Confluence, as applicable.
• Perform multiple forms of testing (manual and automation).
• Automate test scripts using tools like Selenium IDE/TestNG, Apache Jmeter, and Postman so they can quickly be referenced and re-executed with minimal human intervention.
• Report test defects per test environments as well as support production test efforts.
• Support and contribute to the effort of troubleshooting and mitigate issues and identified defects.
• Demonstrate work produced to internal team members and the client.
• Provide analytical skills and technical expertise in ensuring application system designs and implementation meet the defined roadmap and user stories.
• Participate in all Agile ceremonies (ex: planning, retrospectives, demos, grooming and daily stand ups).
• Review and update system and sprint artifacts such as user stories, design documents, user guides, test cases, test plans, test reports, etc.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Practical experience with AWS Services like S3, Lambda, Aurora MySQL, and DynamoDB
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work in a collaborative environment as well as independently to ensure work is completed on time.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven expertise in executing test plans, documenting results, generating test reports, and data generation.
• Must have the ability to understand integration points between functionalities and form a ‘big picture’ view of testing needs.
• Must have relational and non-relational database knowledge and experience.
• Must have experience testing SOAP and REST APIs
• Hands on experience with test automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium, Cucumber, SoapUI/Postman, Cucumber, Apache Jmeter.
• Must have experience testing SOAP and REST APIs.
• Working Knowledge of Jira and Confluence.