Software Quality Assurance Specialist/Applications Tester - TS/SCI with Polygraph

General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc.

$140K — $190K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience
  • 6+ years of experience in software quality assurance
  • Active Top Secret SCI clearance with Polygraph
  • US Citizenship required
  • Strong expertise in AWS and familiarity with ServiceNow, Kubernetes, and SQL.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement quality control methodologies
  • Create and execute detailed software test plans
  • Evaluate hardware and software compliance
  • Conduct formal and informal reviews during development
  • Perform manual testing and interpret system requirements
  • Write detailed test plans and scripts
  • Communicate test results effectively with development teams

Benefits

  • 401K plan with company match
  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages
  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
  • Internal mobility support for career development
  • Paid vacation and holidays to ensure work/life balance
Full Job Description
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Automated Testing, Automation Testing Tools, Software Quality
Certifications:
None
Experience:
6 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking an experienced Software QA Specialist/Applications Tester to join our team of building scalable, maintainable and high-performance backend services. As a Software Tester supporting the customer, you will be trusted to solve complex IT issues while delivering outstanding customer service. GDIT is seeking highly cleared candidates with active TS SCI w/ Poly to provide software development, engineering, database design and Software Testing in support of enterprise -wide systems and products for the Intelligence Community (IC). Work with the latest commercial products such as AWS and ServiceNow in an Agile environment on various applications designed and maintained for a broad range of IC customers.

Required Skills:
  • Develops and implements quality control methodologies to ensure compliance with quality assurance standards, guidelines, and procedures in a large computer-based organization.
  • Develops and executes software test plans to identify software code discrepancies and their root causes.
  • Establishes and maintains a process for evaluating hardware, software, and associated documentation and/or assists in the evaluation.
  • Conducts and/or participates in formal and informal reviews at pre-determined points throughout the development life cycle
  • Manual testing
  • Interpreting system requirements
  • Writing test plans and test scripts
  • Executing test scripts and documenting results
  • Communicating with development teams the result of tests
  • Agile
  • JIRA/Confluence
  • SQL/test validation
  • MySQL/Oracle
  • Selenium/Cypress or other automated testing tools
  • Strong expertise with AWS
  • Strong familiarity with ServiceNow
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes


WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. A Software QA Specialist/Applications Tester must have:
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience.
  • Experience: 6+ years
  • Location: McLean, VA (On Customer Site)
  • Security Clearance Level: Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph
  • US Citizenship Required


  • 401K with company match
  • Comprehensive health and wellness packages
  • Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
  • Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
  • Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
  • Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays


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The likely salary range for this position is $140,821 - $190,523. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:
Onsite

Work Location:
USA VA McLean

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and 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. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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