Junior Automation Engineer

$54,000 - $58,000/Yr

GovCIO - Des Moines, IA

Full-time - Entry Level

Remote - Des Moines, IA

About the position

GovCIO is seeking a Junior Automation Engineer to assist in the development of a major customer-facing application. This entry-level position will be fully remote and is located at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The role involves designing, developing, and implementing testing methods to ensure product specifications are met, as well as coordinating with development teams to test applications.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and implements testing methods and equipment to ensure that the product will perform to specifications.
• Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating the product.
• Designs test cases for test plans and creates test scenarios in which tests are carried out.
• Compiles data, defines required changes, and reports defects and problems that occurred during the test process.
• Implements and participates in the walkthrough of the product.
• Consults with the development and/or requirements team to coordinate and test applications.
• Performs analysis, diagnostics, and preliminary evaluations of products.
• Develops testing procedures.
• Develops test plans, scripts, scenarios, functional tests, regression tests, and deployment tests.
• Implements the testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.
• Produces reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.
• Monitors for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and reports to management periodically.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 0 - 2 years of experience or commensurate experience.
• Experience working with Selenium Scripting.

Nice-to-haves

• A Computer Science degree can be substituted with adequate experience and a similar degree (math and science), but a Bachelor's degree will be required.