Test Lead
Location | Anywhere, United States of America |
Date Posted | September 23, 2024 |
Category |
Science / Tech / Engineering
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Job Type |
Full-time
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State | Telecommute |
Description
Test Lead 05-3008 PA
Remote
RB Consulting, Inc. ("RBCI") is a company that truly believes that workforce diversity is a major contributor to success. Since its inception, RBCI has made a concerted effort to attract and recruit talented individuals from all walks of life. RBCI is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing information technology (IT) services and solutions, and professional services to commercial businesses, the Department of Defense (DoD), and other federal agencies.
We provide exceptional management and technology solutions that deliver practical and innovative results to our clients. With experience in project management, software design and development, systems integration, business analysis, testing, logistics operations, and financial management solutions, RBCI specializes in delivering custom applications that leverage commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products. At RBCI, we pride ourselves in providing our clients with superior solutions and services that result in more than simply meeting mission requirements; we strive to solve their toughest problems while exceeding their expectations in responsiveness and flexibility.
RBCI provides generous benefits to our employees, including health, vision, dental insurance, Life, Basic AD&D, short-term/long-term disability, and a 401(K)-retirement plan, in addition to a highly competitive salary.
For more information, please visit us at www.rbci.com.
Position Summary
RBCI is seeking a Test Lead to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Health Agency (DHA) Program Support Branch Solution Delivery Division (SDD) with Testing and Automation services in support of the SDD Leadership. This includes accomplishing tasks related to the specific testing requirement of the SDD products and applications. The SDD requires automated configuration management support, requirements validation, subject matter expert advising, and other test activities, all supporting the products. This effort will include establishing desktop/ end user devices, virtual machines as needed, to sufficiently test all products. It will also include establishing connections to test environments which will host the IT products to conduct testing. This position is remote.
This position is contingent upon contract award.
(Military Veterans are highly encouraged to apply)
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for managing and leading the day-to-day testing activities required to support successful completion of test events.
- Develop and coordinate a test strategy and plan with Government Test Manager that will address and identify work breakdown structure, test architecture, schedule, deliverables, required resources, risk assessment, and quality control.
- Serve as Liaison between the Test Team, T&E Management, the Government Test Manager, the Product Manager, and Functional Area Management Teams.
- Maintain situational awareness of issues or situations that may impact the ability of the team to complete assignments on time and ensure that T&E Management and Government Test Managers are kept appropriately informed.
- Understanding the architecture and configuration of test environments and test scenario conditions/parameters by providing overall frameworks for all of the tests to be performed for a test engagement, including identifying types of tests needed and objectives to be addressed.
- Analyzing documents (e.g., design, requirements, architecture, diagrams, flowcharts) to obtain an understanding of the requirements of the test engagement.
- Training and assisting other test analysts in development and execution of test cases, test scripts, test scenarios and user stories.
- Document and track test events in test management tool for planning, execution, and reporting phases of each test event.
- Facilitate daily and weekly internal and external status meetings, trainings, and test strategy meetings to ensure testing team is well informed of ongoing testing activities, knowledgeable in all MHS applications, and identify risks early in the project lifecycle.
- Forecast for future test events to include scope, complexity, requirements analysis breakdown, projected hours, risks, issues, and assumptions.
- Provide support regarding application and environment risks, system architecture, software delivery processes, and scheduling impacts.
- Additional responsibilities as assigned by management.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher IT or Engineering field with minimum 2 years of relevant Health IT Testing experience or a minimum of 4 years of relevant Health IT Testing experience without a bachelor's degree.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or Kanban credentials or ISTQB Agile Tester Certification.
- Experienced managing and leading testing and evaluation activities for multiple sustainment and new development releases concurrently in multiple test environments.
- Must have experience in both the Waterfall and Agile development methodology, and experience using many of the agile tools included in the development/test Tool Suite (e.g., Jira).
- Experience in working throughout all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for ACAT I or ACAT III systems is preferred.
- Experience in managing ITIL and ITSM solutions.
- Experience in developing, implementing, and managing test cases, test scripts, test scenarios and user stories.
- Experience creating and using Requirements Traceability matrices to manage testing scope and track defects.
- Experience designing, implementing, and conducting test and evaluation procedures to ensure functional and non-functional requirements are met.
- Experience providing testing subject matter specialist know-how for the support of user requirements of complex to highly complex software/hardware applications.
- Experience with automated test tools, such as Selenium and Cucumber.
- Experience with performance test tools such as JMeter.
- Experience with DevSecOps concepts.
- Must be a U.S. Citizen and have the ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to use hands or fingers, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision, distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus. The noise level in the work environment is typically low to moderate.
Note
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbents will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities. This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
RBCI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.
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