Senior Quality Assurance Tester - Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC
Washington, DC
About the Job
Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC is an award-winning minority and female owned federal government contractor committed to providing innovative, high-performing solutions to our government clients and focused on fostering a workplace that encourages growth, initiative, creativity, and employee satisfaction.
We have an exciting opportunity for a Quality Assurance (QA) Tester to join our rapidly growing team supporting a federal government client. The Quality Assurance Testerwill have overall responsibility for the performance of the software test plan development and execution.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Must be a Citizen of the United States of America
- Must have 8 or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment, performing all tasks related to manual and automated testing
- Active Public Trust or Secret clearance.
- Experience developing and implementing efficient and effective testing strategies, test conditions and test scripts for projects
- Proven ability to ensure appropriate testing coverage and requirements traceability through the creation, implementation and enhancement of comprehensive test plans, test cases/user stories, test steps and test automation
- Experience defining clear expectations for all testing tasks, including inputs and outputs
- Experience implementing test tools to support automation and performance testing
- Experience developing and executing test plans, test cases, scripts, and creating test data for Agile Software Development team; including functional, integration, regression, data integrity and stress testing as well as assisting with user acceptance
- Experience identifying gaps and deficiencies in business requirements, technical specifications, designs and testing documentation for completeness and testability
- Experience tracking defects and reporting key metrics for proactively identifying areas for improvement
- Experience coordinating the setup of test environments for all planned test execution activities
- Experience managing the change processes such as build promotions to User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and Production environments
- Proven ability to decompose requirements into detailed test cases for functional and regression test execution
- Understanding of software testing types and methods to support Agile Software Development
- Technical proficiency with SQL including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints
- Experience with requirements tools and tracking (e.g., JIRA)
- Proficient in development of test plans, communicating progress, resolving conflicts, and escalating issues
- Proven ability to identify potential schedule issues and risks
Desired Skills/Experience/Certifications:
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification
- Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) Certified Software Test Engineer (CSTE) certification
- Experience using JIRA XRAY
- Technical proficiency with JQuery including the ability to create queries to validate data integrity and other data constraints
- Experience developing metrics and reports for tracking testing execution
- Experience implementing testing and configuration management methodologies to support continuous integration
- Experience with all aspects of configuration management planning including configuration identification, change control, configuration status accounting, configuration audits, configuration documentation
- Experience conducting continuous risk assessment and management including developing measures to reduce risk in program execution
- Experience conducting daily scrum stand-up meetings, facilitating Sprint planning meetings and coordinating Sprint reviews, retrospectives, and burn-down charts
- Experience monitoring test execution to identify obstacles and takes corrective action as needed.
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Here at Harmonia we are pleased to have been repeatedly recognized for our outstanding work culture, the innovative work we do, and the employees on our team who make a difference each day. Some of these recognitions include:
- Recognized as a Top 20 "Best Place to Work in Virginia"
- Recipient of Department of Labor's HireVets Gold Medallion
- Great Place to Work Certification for five years running
- A Virginia Chamber of Commerce Fantastic 50 company
- A Northern Virginia Technology Council Tech 100 company
- Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies for eleven years
- Two-time SBA SBIR Tibbett's Award winner
- Virginia Values Veterans (V3) Certification
We recognize that every bit of our success is the result of our teams of hard-working, motivated, and innovative professionals who are proud to call themselves part of the Harmonia family! In addition to competitive compensation, a family-focused culture, and a dynamic, productive work environment, we offer all full-time employees a variety of benefits including, but not limited to
- Traditional and HSA- eligible medical insurance plans w/ Wellness Incentives for employees and family
- 100% employer-paid dental and vision insurance options
- 100% employer-sponsored STD, LTD, and life insurance
- Veterans Cohort
- Gym membership reimbursement
- 401(k) matching
- Dollar-for-dollar 501(c)(3) donation matching
- Flexible-schedules and teleworking options
- Paid holidays and Flexible Paid Time Off
- Adoption Expense Reimbursement
- Paid Parental Leave
- Professional development and career growth opportunities and paid training days
- Employer-sponsored Employee Assistance Program for employee and family
- Team and company-wide events, recognition, and appreciation-- and so much more!
Check out our LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram to find out a little more about who we are and if we are the right next step for your career!
Harmonia is an Equal Opportunity Employer providing equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or genetics. Harmonia does and will take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. To perform the above job successfully, an individual must possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities listed; meet the education and work experience required; and must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. Other duties in addition to those listed may be assigned as necessary to meet business needs. Reasonable accommodation will be made to enable an applicant with a disability to successfully apply for and/or perform the essential duties of the job. If you are in need of an accommodation, please contact HR@harmonia.com.