Guidehouse - McLean, VA
posted 5 months ago
As a Quality Assurance Engineer at Guidehouse, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our product software and infrastructure prior to launch. Your primary responsibility will be to create comprehensive tests that identify potential issues, thereby enhancing the overall user experience. You will be involved in developing test strategies and plans, executing tests, and automating testing processes. This position requires a proactive approach to tracking and reporting software defects, conducting root cause analysis, and maintaining thorough documentation of tests and results. You will support testing activities throughout the entire software development lifecycle, which includes integration, system, performance, regression, user acceptance, disaster recovery, and end-to-end testing. A significant aspect of your role will be to lead efforts in automating testing activities and integrating these automations into our CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes. Your expertise will be essential in ensuring that our testing methodologies are robust and effective, ultimately contributing to the success of our software products. In this hands-on position, you will be expected to proficiently plan, automate, and execute testing strategies specifically for AWS cloud infrastructure services and application workloads. You will collaborate closely with the Product Development team to ensure consistent project execution and identify any quality assurance process bottlenecks, suggesting actionable improvements. Your ability to prepare and present quality assurance reports and communicate status updates will be vital in maintaining transparency and alignment with project goals.