Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Peraton Overview
Peraton 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 and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can't be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Responsibilities

Peraton is looking for a highly motivated Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Veterans Affairs VBA COE team to help develop and support Veterans Benefits Administration business stakeholders in a fast paced and high energy Agile development environment. As a Salesforce QA Engineer, you will work in a highly collaborative environment interfacing with Salesforce developers, Scrum masters and Product Owners to help test and deliver critical Salesforce solutions for our customer. Specifically, drive SaaS/PaaS solution delivery in support of customer workstreams, testing strategy as well as creating, maintaining, executing testing solutions. The selected individual will play a pivotal role in supporting our SaaS/PaaS capabilities, work with various business and technology stakeholders and be part of the VBA center of excellence.

What you'll do:

• Collaborate with the product owner, product analysts and the engineering team to identify the appropriate Functional and Regression test cases for the user stories in the SaaS/PaaS backlog.
• Responsible for creating the test data for the developer/analyst using automation scripts and assist Developer/Analyst and product owners in test execution activities.
• Responsible for test cases, test scripts, test plan, end to end test scenarios and assist in defining the acceptance criteria for the requirements.
• Work alongside a great team of engineers, delivery leads and business analysts who constantly strive towards developing each other and driving the organization's aspirations ahead.
• Participate in the product increment planning and document test plan and test scenarios in collaboration with the product owner, product analysts and engineers.
• Assist Test Leads/Peers in creating the overall test plan and strategy for each initiative and product rollout.
• Breakdown the complexity of the test scenarios into unit, system, and user acceptance categories
• Clearly document the test scenarios for all user stories in the product backlog
• Perform validation of Platform customization through the sprints - Integration and User environment
• Own the system integration testing and move the user stories ahead into user acceptance testing.
• Ensure business stakeholders are completing user acceptance testing and obtain approval to release to production.
• Coordinate and Assist UAT teams in validating that product enhancements meet intended requirements.
• Ensure that platform backlog is comprehensive with sized user stories, enriched with testing estimates for developing automation scripts where applicable.
• Track all dependent team's testing and ensure smooth sprint completion.
• Follow up with all engineers to ensure the stories are moved through the SIT, UAT environments in time.
• Assist in coordinating the go-live Quality Assurance activities including the test execution of the production specific test plans and checklists.
• Assist in ensuring that sprint goals are met each sprint.
• Own any production defects validation, test, and funnel them through sprints towards fixes as applicable.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• BS 2-4 Years, MS 0-2, or HS 8-10, 6 years of experience in lieu of degree
• Must be a U.S Citizen to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
• 2+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance, which includes Functional, Automation, Regression, System, Integration, Validation, UAT Coordination and End to End testing on Web based Applications.
• Experience in testing web services, UI and Mobile Responsive and native app testing
• Experience in developing test plans, test procedures, test completion reports, test metrics, test scripts, test cases and root cause analysis
• Experience with Regression testing including writing regression test scenarios and execution
Desired Qualifications:

• 2+ Years of experience in SaaS/PaaS testing, and experience in testing applications/platforms
• Knowledge of Salesforce Software QA methodologies, tools, procedures, and testing techniques.
• Experience in test data management tools for data retrieval from SQL/TDM tools
• Ability to Independently drive projects and outcomes, work with minimal supervision. Strong problem solving, critical thinking, organization, and communication skills. Must be flexible to learn / adapt new coding language as required. Develop new utilities to support test automation needs.
• Team player who can work with different teams in the organization in a seamless manner.
• Experience in test case management using ADO or Confluence
• Development experience will be a huge plus but not required.
Benefits:

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way

Target Salary Range

$51,000 - $82,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO
An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits
At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

•Paid Time-Off and Holidays
•Retirement
•Life & Disability Insurance
•Career Development
•Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
•Paid Parental Leave
•Additional Benefits
•Medical, Dental, & Vision Care

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