Marathon TS is actively seeking a Software Automation Test Lead with API emphasis to join our team and support development efforts for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
Work Location: Arlington, VA or Merrifield, VA.
Clearance: Active Secret clearance
Responsibilities: The selected candidate must be knowledgeable and experienced as a Software Automation Test Lead. Core responsibilities include:
- Managing a team of five (5) or more Testers.
- Evaluating industry standard test tools and making recommendations based on industry best practices.
- Creating, maintaining, and evaluating software automation test scripts.
- Establish test strategies to ensure features meet acceptance criteria.
- Creating and executing manual and automated test cases to ensure functional coverage for assigned features.
- Gathering and validating application functional, performance, and load requirements.
- Identifying and logging defects with clear reproduction steps and validating fixes.
- Working closely with developers and Requirements Analyst peers to clarify requirements and improve test coverage.
- Participating in Agile ceremonies, such as sprint planning and retrospectives, to provide insights from a testing perspective.
- Managing test data, including the creation of data via API calls for testing.
- Creating test reports and maintaining all test documentation.
Education and Experience: - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (15+ years of demonstrated experience may be substituted).
- 15+ years of general experience, including ten years of specialized and/or hands-on experience in automated testing.
Required Skills: - Successfully demonstrated experience with 2-3 object-oriented programming languages, with Java preferred and some Groovy experience.
- Hands-on experience with developing, executing, and maintaining automated test scripts.
- Experience with automated testing IDEs such as IntelliJ.
- Experience with API testing tools such as Katalon, Postman, SoapUI, or ReadyAPI.
- Operating system management experience with Windows Server 2012/2016.
- Experience with commercial defect management systems such as JIRA.
- Experience working within an Agile Development Environment.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Basic understanding of program interfaces, services, databases, messaging, and file systems.
- The successful candidate is subject to a background investigation by the government and must be able to meet the requirements to hold a position of Secret Clearance.
Desired Skills: - Experience with a CI/CD tool such as GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins, or CircleCI.
- Experience with web UI automation frameworks such as Selenium, Cypress, or equivalent.
- Scripting proficiency in Groovy, Cygwin, Bash, Perl, or Python.
- Engages in self-learning and stays updated with industry trends.
- Experience using production RESTful interfaces.
- Experience with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).
- Experience with source control management software, such as Git, Tortoise SVN/Subversion, or BitBucket.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome
- Experience with mobile application testing and associated automation frameworks (e.g., Appium, XCUITest, Espresso).
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