Automated Test Engineer (ATE)

$93,725 - $114,650/Yr

Syms Strategic Group - Waco, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Waco, TX

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Automated Test Engineer (ATE) position at Syms Strategic Group (SSG) involves supporting a large Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) nationwide program. The role focuses on designing and implementing test automation strategies, managing test automation resources, and executing automated tests. The ATE will work closely with engineering and QA teams to enhance the development pipeline and ensure quality assurance across multiple Scrum teams.

Responsibilities

• Electing or identifying areas/test cases for Automation
• Designing & Implementing Test Automation Strategy
• Creating Automation Test Plan and getting approvals
• Choosing selenium tools and configuring Selenium Test Environment (Ex: Eclipse IDE, Java, Selenium WebDriver and TestNG etc.)
• Creating, organizing, and managing Test Automation Resources
• Designing, developing, and executing automated tests
• Extending existing test automation frameworks and tools
• Integrating with CI/CD tools and pipeline (i.e. Jenkins)
• Triage, troubleshoot and document defects
• Documenting QA procedures for the team
• Working closely with engineering and QA to manage and improve the development pipeline
• Performing and writing automated functional, system, regression, and integration testing

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software/Systems Engineering, or equivalent technical degree
• 8+ years Automated Software development and testing experience
• Experience using at least two automation tools/technologies
• Java, C# or Python development experience
• Experience developing test plans and test procedures
• Comprehensive technical expertise on IT products, operating systems, software, hardware, systems and networks
• Experience working in an agile environment

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with EDI and financial transaction systems
• Experience testing MUMPS, VistA and other VA systems

Benefits

• Full Time position
• Encouragement for Military Veterans to apply
• Remote work opportunity