Cloud Software Tester Principal

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Cloud Software Tester Principal supporting The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

GDIT plays a leading role in managing and modernizing data warehouse infrastructure for the CMS. We architect, implement, modernize, and provide operations support for a large data repository in the cloud.

A Cloud Software Tester Principal will provide testing and analysis to support the program in addition to supporting the mission of migrating the IDR Teradata data and ETLs from Informatica to the Snowflake Cloud.

HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Review and analyze user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, system requirements and technical specifications.
• Develop test scenarios, document test cases, create test data/files, compile test summary documentation and provide work estimation for testing tasks.
• Design, develop and execute test cases for RESTful and SOAP APIs.
• Validate request/response payloads, headers, status codes, and error handling.
• Perform functional, regression, integration and performance testing of APIs.
• Automate API test suites using tools like Postman, JMeter and SoapUI.
• Implement API tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure that the final product satisfies the requirements and meets end-user expectations.
• Provide cross functional support to help resolve defects.
• Make recommendations to improve overall quality.
• Effectively communicates with management scrum masters on status and critical issues.
• Collect and communicate findings from test results to internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology and trends in IT quality assurance.
• Collaborate with team, resource manager, and scrum masters to identify risks and mitigation activities.
• Recommend and implement corrective actions as needed to address unplanned technical, functional and resource issues.
• Ensure new processes are documented and reviewed with team.
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality and compliance standards.
• Participate in agile meetings including the daily scrum, backlog grooming, sprint planning, program increment (PI) and retrospective meetings.
• Participate in special projects as required.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Education: BA/BS in a Computer Science or related technical discipline or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, or work experience
• Required Experience: 5 + years of software testing experience, such as data warehouse ETL testing and data quality management
• Required Technical Skills: Experience with Agile methodology; Solid back-end testing experience in writing and executing SQL queries; Knowledge of various software testing methods; Ability to review, test and evaluate the work of others by participating in Peer Reviews
• Security Clearance Level: Requires ability to pass CMS background check and meet the residency requirement for having resided in the US at least (3) three out of the last (5) five years
• Required Skills and Abilities: Excellent written and verbal communication; Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness, recommends improvement to support quality; Ability to be flexible to changing demands and priorities; Excellent teamwork and organizational skills; Ability to work independently and as a cooperative member of the team
• Preferred Skills: Bachelor's degree preferred; Prior experience developing healthcare IT solutions strongly preferred; Experience in Atlassian (Confluence, Jira), TestRail, Test Director, Informatica (PowerCenter, DEI), Snowflake, Datastage, AWS (S3, CLI, EMR, EC2, Glue, Cloudtamer), Databricks, Postman, SoapUI; Experience with automated testing and developing test scripts
• Location: Remote 100%

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

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