Test Automation Enginner

Summary

Comtech LLC is a woman-owned small business that provides IT solutions across various disciplines. They are seeking a Test Automation Engineer who will collaborate with developers and product managers to define automated testing components and contribute to Agile project lifecycles.

Responsibilities

• 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 with team members in adopting and learning test automation techniques
• Assist with Scrum Team estimation of stories and sizing of effort to include the representation of the test automation and engagement with Continuous Integration (CI) required
• Contributes to an atmosphere of cross-functional teamwork within the organizations’ Agile project lifecycle
• Execute automated testing on both Web Front end and back end systems
• Run test validations at various levels including DB validation, rules validation, logging validation, and UI validation

Skills

• Candidate must have minimum 1 year of hands on automated test coding experience
• Candidate must be a team player and work closely with other automation developers to build/support Automation Framework
• Candidate should have experience on automation results analysis and generate automation result reports
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly
• Previous experience with automation tools such as JUnit, SOAPUI, Selenium (WebDriver)
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing Agile environment
• Must have knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD), Automated Testing (GUI and backend), User Acceptance Testing
• Strong written and communication skills
• Professional consulting experience and background beneficial
• Proven strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive implementation experience
• Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Must be flexible in working with team members at all levels of experience
• United States Citizenship required (no dual citizenship)
• U.S. Public Trust clearance required
• Key technology experience in areas such as Java and/or C#, J2EE, XML, and SOA, REST, JSON, Siebel
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration tools (OpenSource or commercially available such as Bamboo or Jenkins)
• Experience with a wide variety of testing tools and techniques that are commercially available or that are OpenSource (examples: HP's QTP, JUnit, Selenium-WebDriver, Geb, Cucumber, and Spock)
• Experience with Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing phases

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Candidate must have minimum 1 year of hands on automated test coding experience
• Candidate must be a team player and work closely with other automation developers to build/support Automation Framework
• Candidate should have experience on automation results analysis and generate automation result reports
• Candidate should have ability to learn new techniques and technologies quickly
• Previous experience with automation tools such as JUnit, SOAPUI, Selenium (WebDriver)
• Ability to work in a fast paced, constantly changing Agile environment
• Must have knowledge and understand fundamental concepts of Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Delivery (CD), Automated Testing (GUI and backend), User Acceptance Testing
• Strong written and communication skills
• Professional consulting experience and background beneficial
• Proven strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive implementation experience
• Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Must be flexible in working with team members at all levels of experience
• United States Citizenship required (no dual citizenship)
• U.S. Public Trust clearance required

Nice to Haves

• Key technology experience in areas such as Java and/or C#, J2EE, XML, and SOA, REST, JSON, Siebel
• Knowledge of Continuous Integration tools (OpenSource or commercially available such as Bamboo or Jenkins)
• Experience with a wide variety of testing tools and techniques that are commercially available or that are OpenSource (examples: HP's QTP, JUnit, Selenium-WebDriver, Geb, Cucumber, and Spock)
• Experience with Functional Testing, Integration Testing, System Testing, and User Acceptance Testing phases