Overview

Overview

Are you a Senior Functional Tester who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? If so, we may have an opportunity for you!

TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

Responsibilities

• Manage project deadlines, as well as your time and schedule in a fast-paced federal environment

• Work directly with the business analysts and developers to translate functional requirements into executable test cases

• Review and generate complex test plans, generate test case data, build procedures and testing scripts based upon functional specifications

• Execute test cases, coordinate and execute tests, log, validate defects, and debug

• Document test plans and test cases

• Perform 508 functional testing on applications/systems utilizing various 508 compliance tools such as JAWS, ZoomText and Dragon Naturally Speaking

• Must be able to work well within a team environment and have exceptional collaboration skills with all levels of business and technical staff

• Interact with Federal and contractor functional leads to clarify requirements and scenarios

• Assist test lead/manager to define and refine functional testing approaches, tools, automation and documentation

• Create, update and maintain application/system, integration and regression test cases

• Perform full cycles of sprint, regression, and integration testing

• Generate test summary reports after each testing cycle to show testing progress, actual testing results, and pass/fail status

• Serve as a functional testing subject matter expert to assist other test engineers as needed

• Participate in regular project status meetings, track and communicate testing progress, issues and risks

• Assist the Federal and contractor resources to conduct User Acceptance Testing

• Utilize software testing tools and develop software test automation

• Respond to developers' questions regarding test results, bugs and defects

• Communicate frequently with customers and team members, facilitating discussions and exercising professional judgment as required

Qualifications

• 5 + years’ experience in testing software applications

• Experience working in Agile and SDLC work environments

• Proficient with Microsoft Office tools (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Visio)

• Experience in test automation including the development and execution of automated test scripts

• Experience with 508 functional testing

• Experience with defect tracking/requirements management tool, desired technologies include: IBM Rational Suite, (ClearQuest, Requirements Pro, Functional Test)

• Experience in all phases of software testing including test planning, functional testing, and regression testing

• Experience testing all layers of the application, including web-based user interface, service layer, data migration, integration layer, data layer, and performance testing

  Education:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related scientific /technical discipline and 5+ years’ experience

  Clearance:

• Must be US Citizen or US Lawful Permanent Resident

• Must be Federal Tax Compliant

• The ability to pass a Tier 2/Modest Background Investigation

• Current IRS clearance a plus

TISTA Science and Technology Corporation,a CMMI Maturity Level 3 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. TISTA is recognized in 2019 by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. TISTA is also a recipient of 2019 Top Veteran-Owned Companies by the Washington Business Journal. TISTA also received a 2018 Moxie Award in the GovCon category.

Here at TISTA Science and Technology, we value Veterans and encourage all to apply!

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Employment Transparency:

TISTA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of TISTA to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. TISTA will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.

The EEO is the Law poster is available here, and the poster supplement is availablehere. (https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf)

The Pay Transparency Policy is availablehere. (https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ofccp/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf)

Tista is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail torecruiting@tistatech.comor call (301) 968-3420 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

TISTA is a federal contractor and is subject to the federal contractor COVID requirements under the new FAR/DFARS clauses and must comply with the incorporated Guidance.

If the candidate is hired to perform work on or in connection with one of TISTA’s federal contracts, TISTA is contractually obligated to ask the candidate to verify and show proof of vaccination status and the candidate will be required to comply with mask and social distancing requirements imposed by the FAR/DFARS as well as any additional requirements imposed by TISTA’s customers for any required onsite work.

Job ID2024-5256

Job LocationsUS-MD-Lanham