QA ANALYST WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

$76,848 - $130,642/Yr

ICF International - Herndon, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Herndon, VA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

ICF's Digital Modernization Division is a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial, technology-driven department, seeking a Software Asset Management Process Area Manager to implement best-practice ITSM asset management processes for a variety of Federal clients, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Our Digital Modernization Division is an information technology and management consulting department that offers integrated, strategic solutions to its public and private-sector clients. ICF has the expertise, agility, and commitment to design, build, and operate high-performance IT engines to support all aspects of our client's business. ICF is seeking a highly motivated Quality Assurance Analyst to support digital solutions for a variety of Federal clients, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The analyst will support our NIH projects by collaborating and working with a cross-functional team to deliver quality, innovative, and highly scalable web-based applications to end clients, and will serve as a Quality Assurance Analyst, performing testing and verification/validation activities for team IT deliveries. The ideal candidate will have prior experience working with cross-disciplinary teams. In this role, you will manage and support daily work requests for one or more project teams. This includes supporting automated and/or manual testing of the software application, writing test cases, authoring test code, running test frameworks and scripts, and creating test reports. You will design, develop, document, and maintain automated functional test cases and other test artifacts, including test data and data verification. Additionally, you will build automation frameworks and reusable automation tests/test scripts using Selenium, perform setup, configuration, and maintenance of automated testing environments with a focus on continuous testing and DevOps processes. You will also use Jira or similar tools to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies, and participate in requirements grooming for sprint preparation.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support daily work requests for one or more project teams.
• Support automated and/or manual testing of the software application, including writing test cases, authoring test code, running test frameworks and scripts, and creating test reports.
• Design, develop, document, and maintain automated functional test cases and other test artifacts, including test data and data verification.
• Build automation framework and reusable automation tests/test scripts using Selenium.
• Perform setup, configuration, and maintenance of automated testing environments with a focus on continuous testing and DevOps processes.
• Use Jira or similar tools to provide visibility to status, metrics, predictability, throughput, quality, impediments, and dependencies.
• Participate in requirements grooming for sprint preparation.
• Maintain regression testing suite by updating test cases to include newly added functionality.
• Take part in backlog grooming and sprint planning and work with the project team to identify risks/impacts to the system.
• Perform various types of testing including automated, functional, and regression testing on web applications.
• Work with developers to perform root-cause analysis, preliminary problem diagnosis, implement bug fixes and change requests.
• Execute test cases and identify and track defects with clear steps to reproduce.
• Work with the scrum team to analyze user stories and write test scripts using Gherkin syntax.
• Conduct demos or training necessary for the successful execution of the project.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years of solid, demonstrable experience in various types of testing including front-end, regression, and performance testing on web-based applications.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience writing UI automated tests using Selenium Web Driver with Java, Cucumber abstraction layer.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience integrating automation tests into CI pipelines.
• 2+ years of demonstrated experience documenting and tracking defects and tests in JIRA and creating test plans for code promotion through tiered environments.
• US Citizen or Green Card Holder due to federal contract requirements.
• Ability to obtain U.S. government public trust clearance.
• MUST RESIDE IN THE United States (U.S.) and the work MUST BE PERFORMED in the United States (U.S.), as this work is for a federal contract and laws do apply.

Nice-to-haves

• Strong analytical, problem solving, and time management skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and within one or more teams with excellent time management, organizational, and reporting skills.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Paid holidays
• Flexible scheduling
• Professional development
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid volunteer time
• Employee discount programs