Automation Engineer

Leidos is seeking an Automation Engineer to support their federal healthcare program. The role involves testing various products, including web applications and databases, and leading test automation efforts while collaborating with team members to refine product backlog items.

Responsibilities:

• Promotes and trains on continuous testing/agile test strategies and DevOps
• Designing test strategies, test plans, and test cases from requirements, design documents and specifications for testing across different platforms (mobile, IoT, cloud) and with an emphasis on automation
• Define, develop and implement software/systems testing standards and procedures and oversee testing across SDLC
• Collaborate with team members to refine the product backlog items
• Executing and reporting security tests
• Identifying regression test candidates for automation, planning automation activities across the team and automating test cases
• Identifying software application performance bottlenecks for performance and load testing
• 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, exploratory, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database
• Reporting defects, tracking, validating and closing
• Recording test results and reporting them
• 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 testing activities
• Using metrics in quantitative project management concept to identify areas for improvement
• Providing innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy
• Helps other testers in adopting agile and security test strategies
• Support UAT activities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related field) and 5 years of related experience
• Test automation experience using Selenium, Cucumber BDD and related technologies strong java skills
• Very experienced in SQL and data analysis. This system uses advanced SQL very heavily so the candidate must have extensive experience using SQL for data analysis, test data input, test verification etc
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle and Agile-Scrum development methodology
• Requires ability to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• Experience with reporting systems
• Experience testing Angular applications
• Experience testing Elastic Search/Open Search based systems
• Experience with performance and load testing