Test Automation Engineer

Company Description ByteCubed is a result-oriented and high impact consulting firm specializing in next generation software development and technology, delivering the most efficient strategies and cost-effective solutions that meet the ever-changing challenges that our clients face. Specialties: Big Data, Strategy and Business Architecture, Systems Engineering, Enterprise cloud services and solutions, PMO services, Innovation, R&D, Business Process and Improvements, and Software Engineering.

Job Description ByteCubed is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to join our rapidly growing IT consulting firm at our headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

The successful candidate will be working in a dynamic team environment, responsible for creating and maintaining automation frameworks and test suites that certify product quality and rapidly uncover defects.

Responsibilities included, but not limited to :

• Develop and build automation frameworks and tests for regression test suites
• Develop and maintain tools for automation tracking and reporting
• Maintain and update automated test systems as product functionality is updated
• Be an advocate for the end user
• Verify software meets the requirements
• Perform unit and system-level testing of applications
• Work with QA engineers to develop testing protocol to identify and correct defects
• Establish best-practice development standards by working with developers

Qualifications Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 3+ years of professional software development and hands-on test automation development experience, ideally in either .NET/Java
• Knowledge and experience writing custom test automation scripts/frameworks
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) and software engineering fundamentals
• Familiarity with client-side technologies including but not limited to HTML, CSS and JavaScript libraries/frameworks such as AngularJS and Bootstrap
• Experience working in agile/scrum programming environment
• Experience with Jenkins or other continuous integration and continuous delivery applications
• Experience in testing RESTful web services and backend APIs
• Desire to improve the software development process
• Due to nature of the work performed for our clients, US Citizenship is required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong Bash scripting experience
• Experience interacting testing among multiple teams
• Well versed in DevOps principles and practices
• Experience with White Box testing
• Technical and/or Project team leadership