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Herndon, Virginia, Us

Manage two test teams, the Component Test Team, responsible for testing individual software components and the Integration Test Team, responsible for testing the system once those individual components have passed testing and been installed on an integrated system. • Hire, train, coach and provide performance management for two teams of Quality Assurance testers. • Collect and organize team statuses, risks, metrics and accomplishments for Sprint Reviews and brief those items to the customer during Sprint Review meetings.• Create test team epics in Confluence based on customer priorities prior to PI Planning and submit to the Program Management Office (PMO) for approval. Revise, update, and add to the epics as necessary during PI Planning. Brief test plan for upcoming PIs to customer during final PI Planning reviews. • Conduct reviews of Engineering Change Requests (CRs) for completeness and thoroughness, particularly regarding test artifacts.• Participate in Engineering Review Board (ERB) meetings where new CRs are evaluated, approved/denied, assigned, and prioritized.• Define testing strategies, requirements, and priorities in collaboration with cross-functional teams (CFTs), including developers, product owners and technical leads.• Coordinate with CFT Leads to assign tester resources based on team workloads and customer priorities. • Compile and report testing statuses to stakeholders including a daily status report sent to Project Management, Program Management and Technical Directors. • In Jira, verify that Sprint, Team and other Kanban boards are accurate and up to date. • In Confluence, make updates to test schedule calendar, input Sprint Review updates and metrics.• Direct and conduct regular quality assurance assessments to identify areas for improvement and drive continuous process improvement.• Oversee the creation and execution of test plans, test cases, and test scripts to validate software functionality, performance, and reliability.

Reston, Virginia, Us

Perform software testing related activities on the DOMEX Data Discovery Platform (D3P) including creating, maintaining and executing test scripts in an agile software development environment.• Create, maintain and execute manual and automated test scripts. • Conduct automated UI, integration, and regression testing using Selenium WebDriver for Java, Maven and Cucumber. • Conduct automated API testing using Python. • Conduct Elasticsearch queries using Kibana. • Conduct manual regression testing for those test scenarios that are not automated.• Derive requirements from use cases, design documents and interviews with developers. • Identify, compile and manage test data.• Verify that test scripts satisfy all appropriate system requirements. • Work with developers to recreate issues discovered during testing. • Record test results in JIRA including actual results compared to expected results.• Record defects found during testing in JIRA.• Participate in Release Planning meetings. • Participate in daily Scrum meetings. • Report testing statuses to stakeholders.

Perform a variety of software testing related activities on the Momentum Financials solution, including creating, maintaining and executing test scripts in an agile software development environment. • Create, maintain and execute manual and automated test scripts. • Perform manual functional and regression testing. • Perform automated functional and regression testing using HP Unified Functional Testing.• Review customer requirements to determine if they are applicable and testable. • Verify that test scripts satisfy all appropriate customer requirements. • Work with developers to recreate issues discovered during testing. • Work with developers to perform testing when no direct testing environment or interface is available to testers. • Record test results including anomalies as well as actual results compared to expected results.• Record defects found during testing.• Report testing statuses to stakeholders.

Woodbridge, Virginia, Us

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Falls Church, Va, Us