SME - Software Quality Assurance Engineer and Tester

Conducts evaluation of software/systems activities including requirements, design, development, documentation, integration, test, verification and validation. Defines appropriate measures to ensure product quality. Develops overall operating criteria to ensure implementation of the software/system quality program according to project, process and contract requirements and objectives. Ensures that projects and process control documentation are compliant with requirements, objectives and/or contracts. Reviews software/systems design, change specifications, and plans against contractual and/or process requirements. Reviews include applicable specifications, materials, tools, techniques, and methodologies. Provides or directs verification and validation of software system requirements, traceability, and testability.

• Develops, publishes, and implements test plans for complex, multi-tier, distributed, applications throughout the full lifecycle.
• Develops automated testing systems using commercial tools, scripts and data set.
• Participates in all aspects of testing, including functional, regression, load and system testing.
• Assures the appropriate level of quality by the resolution of important defects by working with developers and/or engineers to ensure the software or hardware development process has an appropriate level of testing.
• Develops response strategies and processes for high-criticality and security vulnerability related bug notifications.
• Pro-actively investigates and finds potential security holes and attack vectors within both the existing and newly-developed code base.

High School with 10+ years (or commensurate experience), * Clearance Required: TS/SCI

• Expertise in testing web-based applications.
• Experience working with requirements analysts in building requirements.
• Experience writing test cases.
• Expert knowledge of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Experience with integration and regression testing.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of SQL script.
• Familiarity with Oracle developer tools for validation.
• Cloud testing experience.
• Experience with Telerik test studio.
• Experience working on a data migration application upgrade project.