Automation Tester

Security Clearance required: Public Trust Do you want to make a difference? Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people's lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference? Come Join Our Team As a Sr. Automation Tester, your primary responsibility is to design, develop, and execute automated tests to ensure the quality and functionality of software products. You will work closely with the development team to understand product requirements and design test cases that cover various scenarios. Your role involves creating and maintaining automated test scripts using testing frameworks and tools. Additionally, you will analyze test results, identify defects, and collaborate with the development team to resolve issues. Continuous improvement of testing processes and methodologies to enhance efficiencies and effectiveness is also a key aspect of your role. What is the position? Cognosante is seeking an experienced Sr. Automation Tester with a history of delivering high caliber results with high client satisfaction. The successful candidate must be energetic, communicative, intelligent, motivated, and have a passion and aptitude for ensuring software quality. The Sr. Automation Tester will have experience and knowledge to design, code, test, debug, and document software in a variety of programming languages and will have the knowledge of the latest programming languages and techniques. Additionally, the Sr. Software Engineer will have experience in creating strategies for developing IT systems and applications. Has experience in evaluating alternative and selecting optimal approaches and will create and improve the existing suite of automation tests and overall automation framework at the direction of the Testing Manager. This individual will act on behalf of business stakeholders, playing a key role on Agile Scrum development teams, collaborating closely with developers and other stakeholders to understand functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical and security concerns, and will implement automated testing in support of DevOps best practices. They will ensure that testing artifacts are maintained appropriately, as required by the applicable SDLC processes. They must scope and define test plans for the team in support of overall program roadmaps, releases, and sprints. Superior communication and collaboration skills are essential to this role. The ideal candidate will have a knowledge of VA, Community Care, and VIP. This role is a temporary position with high potential to transition to full time. What will I get to do? Design, code, test, debug, and document software in a variety of programming languages
Create strategies for developing IT systems and applications
Coordinate and execute test events in accordance with approved test plans, procedures, and scripts
Create test data
Develop test plans and test procedures
Ensure that test environments are set up accurately
Test IT hardware, software, systems, and networks
Create test execution reports and test data
Configure necessary hardware and operating environments as needed to complete assigned testing
Evaluate existing test artifacts and design test cases/scripts for new releases independently
Assist in creating project resource estimates and defining metrics to track completion phase, defect reports, defect prevention and test coverage
Work closely with the Scrum Master, business analyst, scrum master, developers, project manager, and stakeholders to understand product specifics and to create corresponding test strategies
Execute testing on both frontend and backend systems
Be an advocate for our VA customer stakeholders and the ultimate beneficiaries of our solution - our Nation's Veterans
Collaborate with project leadership and client stakeholders to deliver the project on time, with high quality, and in alignment with the customer's expectations
Interact effectively and professionally with clients, stakeholders, partners, sub-contractors, and vendors recognizing you will be the face of Cognosante in many conversations
Develop a keen understanding of program goals and requirements and develop a vision to both meet the customer's current needs, and for evolution of the program to meet changing client needs
Anticipate project challenges, risk scenarios, and prepare, lead, and execute proactive mitigation strategies to ensure optimal results
Escalate key issues and recommend solutions to project and client leadership
Ensure targets for contractual performance metrics/SLAs are met or exceeded, and provide analysis and communication to ensure appropriate focus on critical attention areas
Identify and execute on opportunities for process improvements
Meet individual potential and performance expectations
Maintain knowledge of VA rules and regulations
Understand and comply with SDLC and Agile methodology used for the project
Ensure compliance with client-driven management and development methodologies/standards including VA DevSecOps (DSO) processes
Promote team building and provide a positive working environment
Other duties as assigned by project leadership
What qualifications do I need? Bachelor's degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline is required, 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education 5 years relevant experience required experience testing in UNIX/LINUX or Windows environments
Experience in the coordination and execution of test events in accordance with approved test plans, procedures, and scripts
Able to work in fast-paced Agile development environment
Must have knowledge and skills to ensure that test environments are set up accurately
Must be able to create test reports
Must be able to test IT hardware, software, systems, and networks
Experience with automated tester experience using tools such as Cypress, Jira, Xray, Ready API, Postman, SOAP UI, Selenium, and Groovy scripting experience
What additional characteristics will help me thrive? Strongly prefer experience with testing middleware Java, Node.Js, AWS Native Cloud products
Knowledge of DevSecOps and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodologies
Experience with Agile methodology and Scrum approach
Experience supporting Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and/or other federal organizations
Knowledge of VA's Integrated Veteran Care Program (IVC) and systems
Basic understanding of healthcare system to include patients, providers, payers, pharmacy, hospitals and their associated business processes and operations
Demonstrated experience working with a geographically dispersed project team
Experience with Performance Testing, Regression Testing, and Integration Testing
Experience with automating tests for CI/CD pipeline and experience with AWS Lambda and Canary
Ability to demonstrate solution features to stakeholders, share knowledge, and provide tool and process guidance
Strong ability to foster collaborative work in dynamic team environment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Strong creative, analytical, customer service, problem solving, and trouble-shooting skills
Proficiency with MS Office Suite, MS Teams, MS Project, GoToMeeting, and SharePoint
Passionate and motivated self-starter that excels in a dynamic, fast-paced environment requiring only limited supervision What We Offer Our mission is to provide comprehensive and competitive pay, benefits, services, and programs to eligible employees and their dependents that: Ensure optimal health and productivity of our employees
Support employee retention and attraction
Provide work/life balance to ensure our employees succeed inside and outside of the office Compensation $96,760.98 - $154,817.56 The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosante's total compensation package for employees. It is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee. Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position. What We Promise Cognosante employees are inspired by our bold mission to improve lives. To achieve this mission, we put our people first. No matter wherethey're located around the nation, our innovative workplaces enable individuals to apply theirskills and experience to work toward a greater good. We foster a winning culture of solutioncreators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance.And we invest in thenext generation of diverse talent to foster an inclusive, progressive, adaptable workplacethat prioritizes advancement for all. As an affirmative action employer, we are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation . click apply for full job details