Test Automation Engineer with Gatling Experience

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Test Engineer supporting our government customers. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Test Engineer supporting FFE in the Technology Shared Services (TSS) group, you will be trusted to evaluate and support development of software, web, telephony, and virtual agent applications. This role will be done remotely.

The tester will perform continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite. The candidate will create automated scripts and supports data and environment configuration. The candidate will also participate in code reviews, monitor, report, and document defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.

HOW A TEST ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Participate and collaborate with team members to assess Story Point / complexity efforts (using best practices) to ensure proper testing and delivery of functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria
• Designs, develops, evaluates, plans and tests engineering specifications for software programs and applications
• Analyze testing outcomes to identify and document design gaps and functionality improvements and transition to Business Analyst
• Apply knowledge of technologies, applications, methodologies, processes, and tools to support product testing
• Be familiar with any NoSQL database
• Participate in Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, grooming, estimation) to support innovation and enhancement of applications through iteration/functionality testing
• Collaborate with team members (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software Developers) to develop test approaches with emphasis on automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected toolsets
• Develop and document end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management system (JIRA)
• Provide early exploratory testing during the development phase
• Design, code and deploy automated test scripts
• Maintain test documentation, provide support to government test organization, evaluate test results, and provide feedback in a Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Pipeline

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Education:  Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of experience

Required Experience:  2+ years s experience or relevant experience/certifications

Required Technical Skills:  ​

• Proficient in the different automated software testing methodologies
• Conceptual knowledge on agile integration.  Working as part of an agile team utilizing Scrum
• Knowledge of various SDLC methodologies
• Experience or knowledge of Gatling test execution
• NoSQL database familiarity
• Experience with API testing
• Ability to test application developed with commercial-off-the-shelf products
• Experience with developing and documenting end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management system JIRA
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
• Strong organizational, attention-to-detail, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Eligibility to receive Federal Public Trust clearance
• Complete Background Investigation in accordance with Section 8.3 of your Subcontract Agreement prior to start of work
• Residency in the US for at least 3 of the last 5 years

Preferred Skills: 

• Experience with developing test automation framework using Java/Scala REST APIs
• Produce estimates for new functionality or enhancements

WHAT GDIT CAN OFFER YOU:

• Full-flex work week
• 401K with company match
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Collaborative teams of highly motivated critical thinkers and innovators
• Ability to make a real impact on the world around you