Test Engineer

**BT-350 – Test Engineer** Skill Level: Expert Herndon, VA (fully on-site, no remote option) **\*\*Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered.\*\*** **Required Skills:** - Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining automated test scripts to test new or existing applications for compliance with best practices - Demonstrated experience performing regression and unit and acceptance testing (UAT) - Demonstrated experience applying usability and accessibility standards, user research, and user-centered design principles for software development to optimize application interface designs - Demonstrated experience with Jira - Demonstrated experience with Confluence - Demonstrated knowledge of DEVOPS tools such as Jenkins and Github **Work Requirements:** - Work in close partnership with project managers, software developers, architects, security engineers and designated client teams in developing test plans, procedures, and scenarios for unit, process, function, system integration, and acceptance testing - Ensure and validate software builds fully comply with product and service requirements and align with the client's approved standards - Test each product or procedure to verify that it provides the desired functionality/outcome, and to validate its performance in accordance with the acceptance criteria for that functionality - Create and maintain automated test scripts, test existing applications for compliance with best practices and client directives - Perform testing activities in accordance with the client's regulations and policies - Support the self-evaluation of the IT capabilities and report the Accessibility Score - Create, update and maintain test support documentation, as approved by the client, for the lifespan of the product in the Sponsor's document repository - Maintain validation reports for the life of the client's software build products and services - Adherence to the client's release management process to include the creation of release plans for all software deployments to include release notes, testing results and back-out plans, which shall be approved by the client before implementation