Platform Engineer/ Automation Tester

GDIT has an opportunity for a dynamic and talented platform engineer / automation test engineer to join our team supporting the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) Case Management Systems Office (CMSO) in its modernization effort for one of its mission-critical applications that is used by all U.S. district and appellate courts’ staff members and external stakeholders. Over 59 million cases are managed on current systems with more than 1 million unique users. CMSO has a mature agile practice using the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and supports a broad range of complex business systems which are instrumental to the AOUSC mission.

The senior automation tester will have following responsibilities:

• Evaluate and understand system requirements and capabilities for test automation
• Setup and configure test automation framework in the cloud environment
• Facilitate continuous development and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline
• Work with manual testers to ensure that automation prioritized to get maximum value
• Design, develop and run automated test scripts in the cloud
• Comply with established version control and coding standards
• Developing test procedures to validate and verify requirements and capabilities
• Configure test environments and test data set
• Understanding of software lifecycle management skills related to application development tasks and planning testing cycles
• Ability to apply in-depth knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle in order to help anticipate complexities in the system
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Experience with modern web client technologies and the associated front-end to backend interactions
• Developing/testing software using an Agile/Scrum methodology

Qualifications:
 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other related scientific or technical discipline
• 5+ years of experience developing automated test scripts on ReactJS and NodeJS Nodejs with Selenium, Playwright, jest, mocha, chai etc
• 5+ years of experience in setup and configurion test automation framework in the cloud environment (AWS / Azure).
• Experience testing API’s though gateway and cloud services
• Expert knowledge in industry standards cloud based test automation frameworks
• Familiarity with standard concepts, practices, and procedures of cloud technology, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS), or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
• Ability to independently setup and configure test automation framework in cloud (Azure or AWS)
• Demonstrated experience in implementing DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps
• Experienced in testing containerized applications utilizing docker, k8s, Openshift etc.
• Managing and executing tests using NUnit and TestNG
• Experience in developing test plans/procedures, expected outcomes, and verification statements
• Comprehensive understanding of Cloud, Agile & DevSecOps methodology and culture
• Working knowledge of Source Version Control and Build/Release tools and methodologies. Working knowledge of Software Build process
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and ability to work with people at every level

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

• Experience in developing automated test scripts for complex Java based web applications