Software Quality Applications Tester (TS/SCI + Poly)
Herndon, VA 20171 In-Person
3 weeks ago
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Job Description
Description
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Quality Applications Tester with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.
THE PROGRAM
The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.
THE PROJECT
The Sponsor is the Organization's first point of contact for alumni relations. The Sponsor seeks to establish the Alumni Relations System (ARS) to establish a consistent communication process and repository for documenting alumni contact. This system will provide a secure bidirectional communication to enable the Sponsor to disseminate important guidance, reduce alumni security concerns, and enable the alumni to comply with reporting requirements.
THE ROLE
About The DarkStar Group
Our Company
The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.
Our Benefits
The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:
** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
The DarkStar Group is seeking a Software Quality Applications Tester with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Herndon, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.
THE PROGRAM
The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.
THE PROJECT
The Sponsor is the Organization's first point of contact for alumni relations. The Sponsor seeks to establish the Alumni Relations System (ARS) to establish a consistent communication process and repository for documenting alumni contact. This system will provide a secure bidirectional communication to enable the Sponsor to disseminate important guidance, reduce alumni security concerns, and enable the alumni to comply with reporting requirements.
THE ROLE
- Conduct software compatibility tests with programs, hardware, operating systems, or network environments.
- Develop and define major and minor characteristics of quality including quality metrics and scoring parameters and determine requisite quality control resources.
- Create and maintain databases of known test defects.
- Design test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures.
- Design, develop and use automated testing tools.
- Develop or specify standards, methods, or procedures to determine product quality or release readiness.
- Develop testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
- Assist the Sponsor in the evaluation of software and associated documentation.
- Participate in formal and informal reviews to determine quality.
- Identify program deviance from standards, and suggest modifications to ensure compliance.
- Identify, analyze, and document problems with program function, output, online screen, or content.
- Install, maintain, and use software-testing programs.
- Investigate customer problems.
- Monitor program performance to ensure efficient and problem-free operations.
- Perform initial debugging procedures by reviewing configuration files, logs, or code pieces to determine breakdown source.
- Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.
- Provide feedback and recommendations to development team on software usability and functionality.
- Test system modifications to prepare for implementation.
- Collaborate with field staff or customers to evaluate or diagnose problems and recommend possible solutions.
- Coordinate user or third party testing.
- Conduct analyses of test results.
- Demonstrated experience translating detailed design into computer software.
- Demonstrated experience developing and conducting software compatibility tests with programs, hardware, operating systems, or network environments.
- Demonstrated experience ensuring the logical and systematic conversion of customer or product requirements into total systems solutions that acknowledge technical, schedule, and cost constraints.
- Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as program-level, user-level, and security documentation.
- Demonstrated experience performing as an Agile Scrum Master.
- Demonstrated experience translating database requirements into end-to-end design for databases that may involve multiple interfaces to other database systems.
- Demonstrated experience designing, developing, implementing and maintaining database structures.
- Demonstrated experience designing interactive web databases and web services; and user interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience developing security procedures to protect databases from unauthorized usage.
- Demonstrated experience developing, testing, and implementing complex functions, scripts, stored procedures and triggers to support application development.
- Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MS Azure cloud technologies.
- Demonstrated experience with Jenkins, Github, Docker, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, CloudFormation, or Terraform.
- Demonstrated experience with Linux administration and scripting languages including Bash and Python.
- Demonstrated experience with full ELK stack such as ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Filebeat.
- Demonstrated experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS web user interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience with web UI frameworks, such as React and/or Extended JavaScript (ExtJS).
- Demonstrated experience analyzing customer requirements and providing technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies.
- Demonstrated experience designing software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manage their implementation.
- Demonstrated experience working with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
- Demonstrated experience designing and customizing software for client use in a cloud environment with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.
- Demonstrated experience providing technical support during software installation or configuration.
- Demonstrated experience developing formal database requirements.
About The DarkStar Group
Our Company
The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.
Our Benefits
The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:
- very strong salaries;
- 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;
- the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;
- 100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;
- a generously-funded HSA;
- an 8% 401(k) contribution;
- 31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);
- the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;
- a generous training budget;
- $25,000 employee referral bonuses;
- business development / growth incentives; and
- top notch company swag.
** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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