Test Automation Engineer

ByteCubed is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to join our rapidly growing IT consulting firm at our headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

The successful candidate will be working in a dynamic team environment, responsible for creating and maintaining automation frameworks and test suites that certify product quality and rapidly uncover defects.

Responsibilities included, but not limited to:

• Develop and build automation frameworks and tests for regression test suites
• Develop and maintain tools for automation tracking and reporting
• Maintain and update automated test systems as product functionality is updated
• Be an advocate for the end user
• Verify software meets the requirements
• Perform unit and system-level testing of applications
• Work with QA engineers to develop testing protocol to identify and correct defects
• Establish best-practice development standards by working with developers

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3+ years of professional software development and hands-on test automation development experience, ideally in either .NET/Java
• Knowledge and experience writing custom test automation scripts/frameworks
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and software engineering fundamentals
• Familiarity with client-side technologies including but not limited to HTML, CSS and JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as AngularJS and Bootstrap
• Experience working in agile/scrum programming environment
• Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration and continuous delivery applications
• Experience in testing RESTful web services and backend APIs
• Desire to improve the software development process
  
• Due to nature of the work performed for our clients, US Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Bash scripting experience
  
• Experience interacting testing among multiple teams
• Well versed in DevOps principles and practices
• Experience with White Box testing
• Technical and/or Project team leadership

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please include resumes when replying to this post. Contact information for this poster can be found at: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/ashley-a-staring/12/453/767