Job Description

Security Clearance: Selected candidate must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Location: Woodlawn, MD

Job Type: Full-Time

Target Salary Range*: $100,000 - $140,000.

*This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position specific requirements which may impact salary

BDD and TDD approaches to automation testing, Java, Selenium, Cucumber, Gherkin, TestNG or Junit, REST Assured, and Parasoft

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect, design, code, and implement next-generation technical solutions using software engineering best practices in the latest technologies.
• Provide technical support and guidance for the development and maintenance of automation artifacts including the automation framework, grid, and automation scripts.
• Provide expertise in one or more of the following areas: development of automation tests using core Java, Selenium, Cucumber, and Gherkin, execution of automation test suites and documentation of defects.

Qualifications:

Education

• Master's and 5+ years of experience, Bachelor's and 7+ years of experience or 13+ years in lieu of a degree

Experience

• 7+ years of experience developing automation tests using core Java or Java-based test frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience developing automation tests with Cucumber and Gherkin.
• 5+ years of experience with automating functional/regression tests with Selenium.

Skills:

• In-depth knowledge of Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) approaches to automation testing.
• Extensive, practical experience in software development using Java (preferred), JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python
• Experience developing test scripts to implement Features, Test Scenarios and Step-Definitions in a customized test automation framework.
• Experience developing Selenium automation frameworks using Junit/TestNG and developing Maven targets to execute automation suites.
• Experience creating and executing manual test scripts and documenting test results/defects.
• Experience utilizing Parasoft for functional and API testing, and environment virtualization.
• Experience with other automation tools such as Playwright (preferred), Cypress, UiPath
• Knowledge of relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, DB2, Oracle) and experience with SQL for querying data to verify test results.
• Experience in setting up and maintaining Selenium Grid to execute tests in parallel and enable cross platform testing.
• Experience developing automation test scripts to test REST APIs using REST Assured or any Java-based libraries.
• Experience with Web Services Technologies (e.g., REST, SOAP, XML, JSON) and testing Web Services
• Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and/or Kanban Agile development process and ceremonies (scrums, backlog grooming, retrospectives, demonstrations).

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in configuring and execution of automated regression suites using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline or Selenium Grid.
• Experience with source code versioning and Pull Requests with Git and Stash.
• An in-depth knowledge of Social Security Administration (SSA) modern development environment including Git/Stash version control, VersionOne (Agility), Confluence, SonarQube, and Checkmarx.
• Experience with environments utilizing Cloud/Virtualization technologies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Docker.
• Exposure to AI-assisted test automation development.
• Experience building self-healing automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of synthetic data generation methods with/without using AI.
• Experience configuring and executing automation tests in containers.