Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester

GovCIO is seeking a QA Engineer who will thrive in a fast-paced team environment. This customer-facing role will be instrumental in ensuring customer satisfaction through manual testing in a federal government client environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, publish, and implement test plans for complex, multi-tier, distributed, applications throughout the full lifecycle
• Develop manual or automated testing systems using commercial tools, scripts and data set
• Participates in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load and system testing
• Assures the appropriate level of quality by the resolution of important defects by working with developers and/or engineers to ensure the software or hardware development process has an appropriate level of testing
• Develops response strategies and processes for high-criticality and security vulnerability related bug notifications
• Pro-actively investigates and finds potential security holes and attack vectors within both the existing and newly developed code base
• Agile/Scrum Methodologies: Working in iterative development cycles with cross-functional teams
• Communicate effectively with federal clients, developers, and program managers

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, or related field or commensurate experience
• 8+ years of experience
• 4 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
• Experience with Jira, X-ray, AWS
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies, specifically Kanban
• Must be able to obtain a DHS Public Trust
• • US Citizenship is required
• experience in AWS