Test Engineer - Senior

Your Impact:

Jacobs is seeking for Senior Test Engineer to support its federal client in Northern VA. The ideal candidate will have:

Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for conducting automated and manual tests to ensure the software created by developers fits its purpose.
• Create test processes and procedures used to ensure that software operates within defined requirements.
• Implement test plans, automation, and validation strategies. Identify and investigate issues found during testing, and update test cases based on discovered defects.
• Work closely with software developers and software quality analysts to resolve issues.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts to reduce repetitive manual testing.
• Participate in project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents.
• Test and prove that the software meets major architectural requirements. 
• Prove for scalability and performance of a software.
• Ensuring the quality of the system as a whole. 
• Work with firmware developers and validation engineers.
•  Develop and automate tests for software validation.
• Detect bug issues.
• Prepare file defect reports and report test progress

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Here’s what you’ll need:

-Bachelors and 6 years, or 10 years’ experience

-Must have TS/SCI clearance 

Experience:

-Developing and executing software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes.
-Performing analysis of documented user requirements and directs or assists in the design of test plans in support of user requirements for software or IT systems.
-Designing, defining, and documenting unit and application test plans.
-Transforming test plans into test scripts and execute those scripts.
-Directing and/or participating in all phases of risk management assessments and software/hardware development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.
-Estimating software-testing costs and schedule.
-Conducting software compatibility tests with programs, hardware, operating systems, or network environments.
-Designing test plans, scenarios, scripts, or procedures.
-Developing testing programs that address areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, error or bug retests, or usability.
-Documenting software defects, using bug tracking systems, and report defects to software developers.
-Documenting test procedures to ensure replicability and compliance with standards.
-Planning test schedules or strategies in accordance with project scope or delivery dates.