Job Title: Engineer, Customer Acceptance Tester III (SRS)
Location work will be performed: DCO026 - Washington, DC - Client Headquarters
Job Title: IT - Test Engineer III
Job Description: Resources #: 3
Location: HQ Washington, DC
Job Description:
Interacts with other engineering groups to define, document, analyze, perform, and interpret tests for products, systems, components, or modifications. Participates in final system integration and validation to identify functional problems. Defines internal quality control standards and the maintenance of reliability programs. Creates, documents, and analyzes the most complex test cases and provides feedback and recommendations for product or design changes. Ensures testing procedures are in compliance with any required industry specific standards. Identifies chronic or systemic problems in testing and develops and implements improvements to process. May coordinate with vendors or suppliers to modify or develop testing for components or other parts.
Works on advanced, complex technical projects or business issues requiring state of the art technical or industry knowledge. Works autonomously. Goals are generally communicated in solution or project goal terms. May provide a leadership role for the work group through knowledge in the area of specialization.
List of tasks to be performed:
8 year ‘s experience developing software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).
Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.
Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.
Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.
Automated test script development
Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.
Other related duties as assigned.
Required Experience Level:
Minimum of 5-7 years’ experience, in technology or software development preferred.
Mail.DAT and Mail.XML are fundamental to the electronic data exchange of mailing information. Experience with Mail.DAT, and Mail.XML specification is desired.
Experience eliciting and documenting business process and requirement.
Experience analyzing business processes and recommending improvements.
Experience creating manual and automated test scripts, performing customer acceptance testing or user acceptance testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
Experience performing production validation through smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing; document test results, and providing test artifacts.
Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.
Experience with MS O365 tools: MS Excel, Word, Project, Visio, Access, Workflow
Hands-on knowledge of scripting language such as SQL, Java, Python (optional)
Experience with software test management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodology.
Software Testing certification is preferred.
Education Requirements:
A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years’ relevant experience.
A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual’s degree is not in the applicable field, then four additional years of related experience is required.
Additional Provisions:
Pass a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check.
Once candidate’s resume is approved and interview passed, the agency is responsible for providing drug screening. Failure to submit the drug screening results will delay the security clearance process.
If a candidate is given an interim clearance, continuation of employment is then based on the candidate receiving a sensitive clearance.
All candidates must be a US Citizen.
Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last five years. Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members.) • All overtime must be pre-approved in writing by the client manager or his/her designated representative.
Agency will not be reimbursed for overtime charges without previous written authorization. Authorized overtime will be reimbursed at straight time.
The enforced dress code is business casual, i.e. collared shirt with slacks for men, no skirts above the knee for women. Place and Period of Performance
Hours of support:
The standard work week for contract staff will be 5 days a week and 8 hours per day preferable Monday through Friday.