Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company. They are seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of application releases by performing both manual and automation testing for the USPS Customer Tools application.
Responsibilities
- Review test requirements, specifications, and documentation for each release in both staging and production environments
- Prepare and manage test data for both staging and production environments
- Design, execute, and document functional test cases in staging and production
- Perform regression testing in both staging and production to ensure new changes do not break existing functionality
- Log, track, and prioritize defects found in both staging and production using ALM and VersionOne
- Collaborate with developers to verify defect fixes in both staging and production
- Validate deployment and configuration in both staging and production environments
- Execute smoke tests in production to confirm basic functionality post-deployment
- Perform sanity and functional tests in both staging and production to ensure critical workflows operate as expected
- Monitor application logs and system alerts for issues
- Report, track, and escalate issues found in both staging and production as needed
- Document all test results, including detailed evidence and steps for each test, for both staging and production
- Prepare and provide comprehensive documentation for production sign-off including test coverage, results, and outstanding issues
- Communicate findings and feedback to stakeholders and participate in release meetings
Skills
- 2 + years of related experience
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited College/University is preferred
- If the candidate does not possess a relevant four-year degree, an additional year of relevant work experience will be required
- Minimum 2 years' experience in software Q/A testing
- Minimum 1 year experience in load testing using Azure Load Test Suite and jMeter
- Minimum 1 year experience with testing applications within Google Cloud Platform, IBM Websphere and Wildfly application environments
- Experience creating documentation and communicating clear concise test plans, test scenarios and test cases using HP ALM or similar testing tools
- Proficient in running manual tests, and able to recognize when and how to incorporate automated testing processes to enhance efficiency and reduce expenses
- Experience building and utilizing Test Automation scripts and framework (UFT)
- Ability to create detailed defect reports which is crucial to understanding software issues and providing a thorough explanation of the software's status for other team members
- Experience using Version One or other work management tools
- Demonstrate user stories and functionality to customers
- Strong understanding of the complete life cycle of a system (SDLC) application and operating systems
- Motivated self-starter with excellent analytical, organization, and troubleshooting skills
- Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate with key stakeholders, Solutions Architects, Product Owner, Managers and Developers
- Knowledge/experience of SDLC practices
- Knowledge/experience with Agile Methodologies
- Knowledge/experience with VersionOne
- Knowledge/experience with Postman, SoapUI, AML, UFT, Playwright and JMeter
- Knowledge/experience with PLSQL
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
- 401K with company match
- Competitive pay and paid time off
- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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