Jr Test Engineer at Cognosante, LLC

Cognosante is seeking an experienced Jr Test Engineer with a strong track record of delivering high caliber results with high client satisfaction. The successful candidate must be energetic, communicative, intelligent, passionate, and motivated.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree (Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business, or related scientific /technical discipline)
• 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education
• 2 years of relevant experience
• Experience in the coordination and execution of test events in accordance with approved test plans, procedures, and scripts
• Experience setting up test environments accurately
• Experience in testing IT hardware, software, systems, and networks
• Experience in writing or assisting in the development of test plans and test procedures
• Experience with Jira and GitHub
• Experience with diverse IT projects both large and small
• Well versed in full systems development life cycle, enterprise-wide network engineering, strategic information planning, business process reengineering, structure, and management practices
• Able to identify and mitigate risks to the program, manage to cost, schedule and performance
• Candidates that do not meet the required qualifications will not be considered.

Additional Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to demonstrate solution features to stakeholders, share knowledge, and provide tool and process guidance
• Strong ability to foster collaborative work in dynamic team environment
• Able to manage multiple competing deadlines
• Passionate and motivated self-starter that excels in a dynamic, fast-paced environment requiring only limited supervision
• A team player and a consistent, dependable performer, with an excellent work ethic, flexible “can-do” attitude, and a results-driven commitment to success
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication, skills
• Strong prioritization skills, for both individual and teamwork
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to multi-task, with strong delegation and follow through
• Strong creative, analytical, customer service, problem solving, and trouble-shooting skills
• Basic understanding of healthcare system to include patients, providers, payers, pharmacy, hospitals and their associated business processes and operations
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, MS Teams, MS Project, GoToMeeting, and SharePoint
• Experience with Jira and GitHub
• Availability to work flexible hours, including some evenings and weekends as required
• Open to occasional travel (~10% to VA and Cognosante locations)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Tier 2/Moderate/MBI clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a CMMI-DEV or CMMI-SVC environment at Maturity Level 3 or above
• International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) Agile Tester Certification or equivalent
• Experience with Selenium, Java, TestNG, Maven, BDD(Cucumber), SQL, API(Postman), Soap AI, Page-Factory, Jenkins, and JAWS or equivalent technologies
• Knowledge of VA’s health program and systems
• Active VA Tier 2/Moderate/MBI clearance with access to VA systems, PIV, and GFE

Able to obtain Public Trust

Cognosante is on a mission to transform our country’s healthcare and national security systems. With our health and security-focused solutions, we help public sector organizations achieve the important task of providing the best possible public services to American Citizens. From Enterprise IT, Data Science, and Security Services, to full-scale Consumer Engagement and Interoperability solutions, we are moving government services forward with transformation and innovation. Learn how we are making a difference in people’s lives today!

Job Description

Cognosante is seeking an experienced Jr Test Engineer with a strong track record of delivering high caliber results with high client satisfaction. The successful candidate must be energetic, communicative, intelligent, passionate, and motivated. This role will be a part of a large Veteran’s Administration support effort, coordinating with strategic customers and partners, supporting a program delivery vision. The position is fast paced on a complex, high priority project requiring both hard and soft skills and focused dedication.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to influence and build strong relationships across multiple teams and with VA. Candidates must be comfortable working with junior to senior team members and multiple levels of managers and executives within Cognosante, VA, and our partners. The candidate must be an effective communicator and collaborator, and a mature and empathetic employee. This role requires a passion and commitment to supporting VA in meeting the needs of our Veterans and their families.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate with test sites and other team participants to plan test events and create test data
• Creating and running automation test cases
• Tracks problems and report on errors/issues that are identified
• Create/manage test plans/reports and perform testing such as unit, regression, and smoke testing adequate to ensure the released coding changes meet the requirements
• Triage issues to determine if the problem is traceable to requirements, design, configuration, testing, code defect, documentation deficiency, or knowledge gap, and to determine whether further analysis is required
• Ensure all acceptance criteria are agreed to by stakeholders and are testable and automated to the maximum extent practicable
• Assist in the testing and documentation steps for each part of the testing process
• Evaluate existing test artifacts and design test cases/scripts for new releases independently
• Work closely with the developers, business analyst, scrum master, project manager and other stakeholders to understand product specifics and to create corresponding test strategies
• Ensure all requirements’ data is under change control and is fully linked to work items that show traceability to design changes, configurable items, test cases, and test results
• Ensure test plans specify the type and scope of testing to be conducted during each product build (for example, unit, functional, accessibility, system, reliability, usability, interoperability, regression, security, and performance)
• Execute testing on both frontend and backend systems
• Participate effectively in estimation, planning, cost-of-quality, and quality risk analysis
• Be an advocate for our VA customer stakeholders and the ultimate beneficiaries of our solution - our Nation’s Veterans
• Develop a keen understanding of program goals and requirements and develop a vision to both meet the customer’s current needs, and for evolution of the program to meet changing client needs
• Collaborate with project leadership and client stake holders to deliver the project on time, with high quality, and in alignment with the customer’s expectations
• Ensure targets for contractual performance metrics/SLAs are met or exceeded, and provide analysis and communication to ensure appropriate focus on critical attention areas
• Anticipate project challenges and technical risk scenarios
• Identify and execute on opportunities for process improvements
• Escalate key issues and recommend solutions to project and client leadership
• Serve as a subject matter expert to ensure successful implementation of all the project’s solutions
• Understand and comply with Cognosante’s COMPASS and SDLC methodologies and with the Agile methodology used for the project
• Ensure compliance with client-driven management and development methodologies/standards including VA DevSecOps (DSO) processes
• Develop and deliver internal and client-facing program reviews, status reports, performance reports and other communications
• Work with VA and Cognosante security leaders to ensure security compliance of the product and project, including supporting evidence, controls, and auditing
• Interact effectively and professionally with clients, stakeholders, partners, sub-contractors, and vendors recognizing you will be the face of Cognosante in many conversations
• Other duties as assigned by project leadership

Compensation

$72,268.51 - $115,627.49

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may will be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosante’s total compensation package for employees and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee.

Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

Like many other growing companies, Cognosante has been targeted by scammers attempting to make fraudulent job offers to potential candidates. Communication from Cognosante recruiting will only be sent with an official corporate domain email (e.g., @cognosante.com or @accurate.com) and not a commercial domain e-mail (e.g., @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at

[email protected]

. Thank you.

Cognosante is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.