QA Test Engineer

Clearance Level

None

Category

Professional Engineering

Location

Washington, District of Columbia

(Onsite Workplace)

Key Skills For Success

Automated Regression Testing

Documentation Requirements (Inactive)

Software Development

REQ#: RQ226894

Public Trust: MBI (T2)

Requisition Type: Pipeline

Your Impact

Own your opportunity to work alongside federal civilian agencies. Make an impact by providing services that help the government ensure the well being and support of U.S. citizens.

Job Description

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a QA Test Engineer supporting the United States Postal Service. GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a QA Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

MEANINGFUL WORK AND PERSONAL IMPACT

Develop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).

Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.

Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).

Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.

Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.

Automated test script development

Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.

Other related duties as assigned.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

Education:

Bachelor's Degree; OR in lieu of degree, an additional 4 years of relevant work experience is required

Required Experience:

Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience in technology or software development is preferred.

Experience eliciting and documenting business processes and requirements.

Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.

Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results and providing test artifacts.

Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.

Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, Workflow

Hands-on knowledge of scripting languages such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)

Experience with API Testing using tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar

Experience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.

Experience using automation tools

Demonstrated experience with automation testing tools using Artificial Intelligence (AI) or similar

Preferred Experience:

Software Testing certification is preferred.

Mail.DAT and Mail.XML are fundamental to the electronic data exchange of mailing information. Experience with Mail.DAT, and Mail.XML specification (highly desired but not required).

Security Clearance Level:

Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting

This position has a U.S. residency requirement. The USPS security clearance process requires the selected candidate to have resided in the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for the last five years as follows: U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 6 months consecutively in the last 3 years (unless they meet certain exceptions). Non-U.S. Citizens cannot have left the U.S. (including U.S. Territories) for longer than 90 days consecutively in the last 3 years.

Location:

Washington, DC

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness packages

Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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Work Requirements

Years of Experience

5 + years of related experience

may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree

Certification

Travel Required

Less than 10%

Salary and Benefit Information

The likely salary range for this position is $83,927 - $113,549. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Our Identity Verification Process

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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