Full-Time Quality Assurance Engineer

Expression is seeking a highly skilled Quality Assurance professional to support the Global Public Affairs Office of the US Department of State. The duties of this project team include the architecture, engineering, operations, development, UI/UX, user training and agile project management of their web assets hosted on cloud architecture running a content management system (WordPress).  This position ensures that the functionality and performance of the site meets quality metrics goals in the most efficient manner possible.

Location:

• Remote in the United States

Responsibilities & Duties:

• Creating, maintenance and evaluation of software automation test scripts for both UI and API (including incorporation of dynamic test data) for a web site
• Creating and maintaining manual test scripts when needed.
• Conduct testing following a disciplined procedures and documentation (Test Strategy, Test Plan, Test Case, Results, Defect Analysis, Test Summary)
• Ability to train others regarding automation test concepts; plus providing guidance and direction as needed.
• Gathering and validating application functional/performance/load requirements
• Creation and maintenance of test plans and test cases
• Execution, as required, of manual and automated software testing in areas involving installation, functional, performance and load, integration, and regression testing.
• Documentation of process improvements regarding best practices regarding test automation
• Creation of test reports and test visualizations (Splunk)
• Maintenance of all test documentation and results with results.
• Coordination and prioritization of test development activities and the ability to work with multiple development teams and software projects are also critical for the selected candidate.
• Management of defects within a corporate defect tracking system

Requirements:

• Ability to obtain a Public Trust. 
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering, similar discipline, or equivalent work experience is required.
• A minimum of 8+ years of structured software quality assurance engineering experience is required.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with the development of automated test scripts, execution of test cases and reporting and dissemination of test results.
• Experience with automated testing applications like Gauge (Java+Selenium, Cucumber)
• Experience with API testing tools such as ReadyAPI.
• Production software development experience with 2-3 structured programming languages such as .Net, Java and Pega.
• Experience with quality assurance practices and testing methodologies
• Experience with test plan and test case development and execution
• Experience with developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts.
• Experience with MS SQL Server, BitBucket, JIRA+ Xray, Postman
• Experience deploying in CI/CD and using Build Pipelines.
• Demonstrated documentation and reporting experience.
• Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2012/2016
• Experience with commercial defect management systems
• Experience training small teams regarding test engineering concepts.
• Experience working within an Agile Development Environment
• Experience with document management systems
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills
• Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, files systems, and other program objects.
• Ability to troubleshoot independently both software and operating system level installation and configuration issues.