Description
We are seeking a Software Test Engineer to join our team in Omaha, Nebraska. As a Software Test Engineer, you will participate in planning, designing, and executing end-to-end automated testing in support of the Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) of our products to customers worldwide.
You will identify opportunities to increase the level of automated testing of our customer products and solutions, plan and execute strategies to achieve test automation objectives, continuously measure and improve the effectiveness of that testing based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and evaluate and integrate new testing tools, technologies, and procedures to achieve the organization's technical objectives.
In this capacity, you will collaborate with engineering and product team members, architects, and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies, detailed test plans, and scenarios.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Create and maintain test methodology documentation for traceability and repeatability.
- Identify regression test candidates for automation, plan automation activities across the team, and automate test cases.
- Execute test cases/scripts including functional, regression, exploratory, performance, load, and smoke tests for both web applications and database.
- Report issues in work management tool (e.g., Jira) along with steps required to re-create the issue.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design, and test tools selection.
- Support metrics program by creating, collecting, and tracking test-related metrics.
- Inform innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy.
Basic Qualifications:
- US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with 2+ years of experience.
- Experience with software development (Java, NodeJS/JS, C++, Rust).
- Experience with writing and/or developing test procedures and automated test scripts (e.g., Test Complete, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cucumber, QFTest, or Cypress).
Preferred Qualifications:
- US Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or higher.
- Experience with Agile development principles and methodologies.
- Experience with automating unit, functional, integration, and performance testing of web applications using industry-standard tools such as Playwright, JUnit, SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, and JMeter.
- Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methodologies and tools.
- Familiarity with software design patterns.
- Solid understanding of software development process fundamentals.
- Experience managing projects within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket).
- Familiarity with component-based web frameworks & libraries (React, Vue, Angular).
- Knowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git).
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Gitlab).
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process.
Pay Range: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00