Senior Test Engineer

Type of Requisition:
Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None Public Trust/Other Required:
NACI (T1)
Job Family:
Professional Engineering Job Qualifications:
Skills:
AI Prompting, Automation, PostgreSQL, SQL Query Writing, Test Automation Development Certifications:
None Experience:
4 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required:
No
Job Description:
Own your opportunity to ensure high quality outcomes for our customers' most complex challenges. As a Test Engineer at GDIT, you'll power innovation to drive mission impact and grow your expertise to power your career forward.
HOW YOU WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:
As a Senior Test Engineer, the work you'll do at GDIT will be impactful to the mission of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Program Integrity (CPI) on the Unified Case Management (UCM) system. As a software automation tester, you will play a crucial role in testing interactive and dynamic user-interface solutions that enhance the investigative capabilities against fraud, waste, and abuse within CPI.

- Integrate with a cross-functional, remote team to execute risk-based test coverage and meet sprint goals delivering high quality software both in a collaborative team environment and independent assignments.

- Use your expertise in QA test execution and test automation to validate front-end web application functionality, back-end data, and reporting/ETL data.

- Be an instrumental player of a SAFe scrum team throughout the life cycle of the software implementation processes.

- Validate the development of system solutions to satisfy customer’s business needs.

- Analyze, document and communicate system and business processes as it relates to testing.

- Provide technical support to existing and prospective customers for UAT testing.

- Provide inputs for and execute against test plans.

- Assist with design, creation, automation, and execution of test cases and scenarios.

- Perform functional, non-functional, regression, system, and performance testing.

- Record actual results and compare to expected results

- Document and perform root cause analysis of relevant defects and issues

- Work independently and interact regularly with government and non-government stakeholders at multiple levels of authority

- Produce the evaluated test/defects reports and take part in software walkthroughs.

- Become knowledgeable in the UCM application and functionality to allow you to support requirement analysis, provide accurate estimates, and develop test coverage to reduce risk and delays on the program deliverables.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

Bring your expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. A successful Test Engineer must have: ​

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Education : Bachelor’s degree

- 5+ years of relevant manual and automated Software Quality Assurance experience.

- Experience testing systems with complex data and/or workflow structure

Required Technical Skills :

- Ability to write and modify PostgreSQL or SQL scripts for testing

- Experience with CodeCept or similar JavaScript or Playwright automation tools and frameworks.

- Experience using AI tools such as Copilot or Claude

Preferred Experience and Skills :

- Experience with defect tracking tools such as JIRA and/or TestRail

- Functional testing for an IT system or database

- Agile or SAFe experience

- Test automation

- Problem-solving mindset

- Previous experience working with CMS or medical data systems or tools

- Familiarity with large, complex data sources using PostgreSQL or SQL and experience with data migration and/or maintenance activity

- Experience testing in both on-premise and AWS cloud environments

- Knowledge of web scripting languages

- Demonstrated ability to advance technical skills to support testing

- Experience testing ETL, Reporting, and/or APIs.

- Experience testing for Section 508 Compliance using JAWS or other similar tool(s)

- Excellent analyt