Automation engineer Jobs in Alexandria, VA

Prudent Technology is a Women Owned Small Business company providing innovative IT Automation and Data solutions to our federal clients. We are a team of self starters, innovators and consultants providing cutting edge technologies for the federal government. We help our clients achieve their business and operational goals by solving complex problems through experience and intellect and build sustainable solutions that last.

Prudent Technology is seeking a Full Stack Test Automation Engineer with extensive technical expertise to support a fast DevSecOps paced team. The candidate must possess comprehensive and relevant experience in the disciplines of Test Automation development using Selenium/ Jmeter DevSecOps Cloud Engineering using Jenkins/ Puppet to deliver CICD. The individual shall be qualified in analyzing user stories, creating DevOps paced automation scripts, sprint testing, and providing daily reporting and automation demos to customers, vendors and stakeholders to ensure successful verification of stories with automation execution time savings.

The candidate shall be qualified using a wide array of test automation tools such as Selenium, SoapUI, JMeter, TestComplete and RestAPI, knowledgeable of complex programming and development schemes, and strong knowledge of software verification and validation best practices to ensure deployment of high quality and compliant software while utilizing an agile development process. Strong communication skills are a key for this role involving interacting with users on issues found and presenting issues by end of sprint cycles.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Deep development experience implementing complex test automation using Selenium, Rest Assured, Java, Jscript in a DevSecOps environment.
• In-depth knowledge of automation techniques, automation tools and technical stack components and their integration
• Expertise with test automation tools such as Selenium, UFT, JMeter, SoapUI
• 5+ Experience with automated deployment tools such as Jenkins
• 5+ Experience in Test Driven and Behavior Driven Development frameworks
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities
• Solid understanding of Git/Github/SVN
• Experience delivering solutions using Agile DevSecOps delivery practices
• Sufficient database query knowledge with web-service automation experience
• Software Testing Life Cycle (Requirements Analysis/Tracking, Test Planning, Test Case and Automation Script Development, Test Execution, Results Analysis/Reporting/Tracking, Regression Testing, etc.) and analyzing requirements for testable outcomes
• Experience operating in fast-paced Agile SDLC, classic waterfall SDLC, and incremental (hybrid) SDLC environments
• Strong written, verbal communication and presentation skills no exceptions! Ability to speak at group events, and to interface with customers.
• Experience working with customers and users, providing guidance, status, and prompt responses
• Participate in the release process
• Prioritize assigned work as necessary to meet project deadlines.