Senior Automation Tester

Security Clearance: Selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Location: Woodlawn, MD

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $100,000 - $140,000.

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

Position Overview:

BDD and TDD approaches to automation testing, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, TestNG or Junit, REST Assured, and Parasoft

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, code, and implement next-generation technical solutions using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies.
• Provide technical support and guidance for the development and maintenance of automation artifacts including the automation framework, grid, and automation scripts.
• Provide expertise in one or more of the following areas: development of automation tests using core Java, Selenium, Cucumber, and Gherkin, execution of automation test suites and documentation of defects.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Master's and 5+ years of experience, Bachelor's and 7+ years of experience or 13+ years in lieu of a degree

Experience:

• 7+ years of experience developing automation tests using core Java or Java-based test frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience developing automation tests with Cucumber and Gherkin.
• 5+ years of experience with automating functional/regression tests with Selenium.

Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches to automation testing.
• Extensive, practical experience in software development using Java (preferred), JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
• Experience developing test scripts to implement Features, Test Scenarios and Step-Definitions in a customized test automation framework.
• Experience developing Selenium automation frameworks using Junit/TestNG and developing Maven targets to execute automation suites.
• Experience creating and executing manual test scripts and documenting test results/defects.
• Experience utilizing Parasoft for functional and API testing, and environment virtualization.
• Experience with other automation tools such as Playwright (preferred), Cypress, UiPath
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle) and experience with SQL for querying data to verify test results.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining Selenium Grid to execute tests in parallel and enable cross platform testing.
• Experience developing automation test scripts to test REST APIs using REST Assured or any Java-based libraries.
• Experience with Web Services Technologies (e.g., REST, SOAP, XML, JSON) and testing Web Services
• Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and/or Kanban Agile development process and ceremonies (scrums, backlog grooming, retrospectives, demonstrations).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in configuring and execution of automated regression suites using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline or Selenium Grid.
• Experience with source code versioning and Pull Requests with Git and Stash.
• An in-depth knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA) modern development environment including Git/Stash version control, VersionOne (Agility), Confluence, SonarQube, and Checkmarx.
• Experience with environments utilizing Cloud/Virtualization technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Docker.
• Exposure to AI-assisted test automation development.
• Experience building self-healing automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of synthetic data generation methods with/without using AI.
• Experience configuring and executing automation tests in containers.