Key Responsibilities:
• Estimating test case writing and execution effort and keeping track of own and team progress.
• Designing test strategies, test plans, and test cases from requirements, design documents and specifications.
• Estimating test case writing and execution effort and keeping track of own and team progress.
• Test case authoring and holding test case reviews with stakeholders.
• Execution of test cases including functional, regression, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database.
• Reporting defects, tracking, validating and closing.
• Recording test results and reporting them.
• 508 compliance test execution and documentation.
• Identifying regression test candidates for automation, planning automation activities across the team and automating test cases.
• Participation in daily scrum meetings, agile ceremonies and weekly test team meetings.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.
• Install, maintain, or use software testing programs.
• Supporting our metrics program by keeping track and gather metrics on all activities.
• Support UAT activities.
• Support end of sprint demos, user acceptance testing, and solicit feedback from peers, lead and others on test artifacts and processes, as appropriate.
Required Skills:
• Strong front end interface testing with emphasis on user personas.
• Experience with SQL server and experience with writing and executing backend tests using SQL is a MUST. Working experience on different relational databases is a MUST. This role requires the tester to handle SQL at a proficient level.
• Experience with drafting test plans and test cases
• Some experience with web services and API testing
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle and Agile-Scrum development methodology
• Experience with gathering metrics and monitoring progress
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working in federal healthcare projects. Familiarity with CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) projects is a huge plus
Experience with HP Load Runner, jMeter, Selenium
Experience with section 508 testing
Experience with HP ALM, Subversion, JIRA, Confluence
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field: Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
Public Trust Clearance:
This role requires the hired candidate to go through public trust clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is a must to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.
