Head of Software Quality Assurance jobs in Evanston, IL

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a qualified professional to join our team as a Senior Quality Assurance Software Tester with Selenium. This full-time position is in support of the United States Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM). 

Location: N. Chicago, IL (Great Lakes Region). Hybrid role, allowing for telework 2 days per week and a requirement to be on-site 3 days per week.

In this role, you will:

• Provide assurance and testing support to the Application Operations teams.
• Create, maintain, and manage test plans, test suites, estimates, test artifacts and test cases within a test management system for manual and / or automated testing.
• Execute manual and automated testing using documented test cases per the test plan.
• Work with modern automation frameworks for web and mobile application.
• Report / track bugs identified until they are closed for every software release.
• Work / Interface with various team members, teams, and customer counterparts. 
• Provide / maintain a customer service-oriented approach with colleagues / customer.
• Work with and train clients as required (testing, test plans, automation, etc.)

Qualifications

Required: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of relevant experience, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or other IT related discipline. Or, a Master's degree and 10 years of relavent experience. An additional 4 years may be considered in lieu of degree. 
• Minimum of 12 years of hands-on experience as a tester working with Agile software development teams.
• 5 years of experience using Selenium; performing automated scripting.
• Experience/expertise with Selenium, AWS cloud architecture, Java, JIRA, Postman, and Confluence tools.
• Software testing practices for web applications.
• Manual and automated testing experience; ability to write test scripts then be able to evaluate the results of those tests.
• Experience preparing test reports for senior leadership.
• Must have excellent communication skills, both in and with technical and business settings.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to pass and maintain a DoD security clearance.

Preferred:

• Master’s degree.
• Previous experience supporting the DoD.

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

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