Halfaker and Associates, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer-centric technology solutions in the areas of Digital Services, Data Analytics, Cyber Security and Cloud Services to improve the health, security and well-being of all Americans. Our commitment to excellence and our vision to “Continue to Serve” has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies in the health, defense, security and intelligence sectors. Our strong focus on internal culture has helped Halfaker achieve several workplace awards including Great Place to Work Certification™ and Tampa Bay Top Workplaces. Headquartered in Arlington, VA, we have employees nationwide. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with Halfaker.
Halfaker has an opening for a SENIOR SOFTWARE TESTER (AUTOMATION TEST LEAD) to join our talented, dynamic team. The key responsibilities for this position include:
- Develop the overall strategy for testing and oversee the development and implementation of a master test plan including automated (and manual) testing capabilities for program execution and data validation
- Perform hands on testing including test script development (code), root cause analysis / diagnosis of issues that occur on testing and production systems
- Lead the design and architecture of automated test harnesses and frameworks that stretches across an enterprise data analytics platform
- Lead test case creation and hands-on testing of complex features and large data sets
- Define testing strategy and write test plans for new/changed features
- Initiate and participate in code reviews and data architecture
- Mentor Test Engineers and provide task management as required
- Use standard Testing, and Defect Management tools (e.g. Jira) to create and manage test cases, test scripts, test results, and defects and provide traceability back to requirements
- Collaborate with engineers, analysts, customers, and other testers in an Agile Scrum environment
Required Skills
- Experience writing a master test plan that encompasses both manual testing and test automation, and onboarding a team of testers to use it
- Hands-on experience developing software tests for functional and non-functional testing that include automated, ad-hoc, and manual testing elements, spanning program execution and data validation
- Experience working in an Agile Scrum environment and using DevOps, and Test or Behavior Driven Development
- Knowledge and experience with Continuous Integration, Continuous Build and Continuous Deployment Practice, Tools and trends
- Experience with performance testing tools including LoadNinja and JMeter
- Experience overseeing the use of defect tracking tools for a team of developers (e.g., how to structure information stored in it, required information to store in the tool, when in the lifecycle to update the tool)
- Must have experience testing both functional and non-functional requirements (Section 508, security, etc.)
- Ability to create test scripts for metadata driven ETL processes, database procedures and analytics front-ends
- Ability to develop LOEs for testing tasks (e.g., manual testing, creating code for test scripts, etc.)
- Experience mentoring a team of testers, and managing their daily work activities
- Must be able to write automated test scripts using one or more programming languages (.NET, Python, PowerShell, SQL)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent technical problem-solving and debugging skills
- Strong skills in organizing, planning, and prioritizing work
- Strong attention to detail and thorough in completing tasks
- Strong time management and coordination skills, and ability to adjust in fast-paced environment
- Strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team
- Familiar with Visual Studio, Selenium, Git, nUnit, and REST
Required Experience
Bachelor's degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline
- 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
5+ years of relevant experience
Halfaker and Associates, LLC, is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.