API Test Automation Engineer in Silver Spring, Maryland at General Dynamics Information Technology

Location: Any Location / Remote
Full Part/Time: Full time
Job Req: RQ226610
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
None

Public Trust/Other Required:
BI Full 6C (T4)

Job Family:
Professional Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Agile Methodology, Automation Testing, Manual Testing, Oral Communications, Written Communication
Certifications:
None
Experience:
8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Test Engineer supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. GDIT, supports CMS's FFE program with new functionality development for Plan Management, Eligibility & Enrollment (E&E), Financial Management, Marketplace Consumer Record, and other Marketplace Health Exchange functional areas. As a Senior Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided for this position.

Our work depends on a Senior Test Engineer joining our team to perform continuous testing for security, API, and regression suites. You will participate in scrum meetings, run test case execution, create reports, and document defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process. In this role, a typical day will include:

• Perform continuous testing across security, API, and UI layers, including manual regression execution as needed.
• Conduct functional test execution for RESTful services and APIs.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with developers, SMEs, and testers to resolve issues.
• Document test cases, test results, and validation data in JIRA.
• Validate test environments across multiple environments and report findings.
• Support test scenario planning, test data preparation, and database query activities.
• Provide estimates for new functionality or enhancements.
• Maintain and enhance regression test cases to ensure data integrity.
• Expand and update regression test suites across releases.
• Track and report test case additions for each sprint and release cycle.
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities and perform effectively under strict deadlines.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Bachelor's degree (candidate résumé should include names and graduation date(s) from institutes of hirer learning) plus 8+ years of experience designing and developing tests and test requirements for products, systems, software, and/or related components.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and enhancing automated test frameworks using Java or Scala for REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience validating RESTful APIs and working with NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Gatling, including creating/updating simulations, adding test scripts to automated regression suites, and enhancing Gatling frameworks to support functional design changes.
• Experience building, updating, and maintaining Scala/Selenium frameworks for UI and API integration.
• Experince with end-to-end Agile automated software testing, including Technical Test Execution, Test Management, participating in code reviews, and monitoring, reporting, and documenting defects to support continuous improvement.
• Experience maintaining regression test cases to ensure data integrity and expanding regression test beds across releases.
• Ability to document and report new test cases across sprints and release cycles.
• Must consistently deliver work that meets or exceeds established standards, demonstrating accuracy, attention to detail, thoroughness, and adherence to specifications.
• Candidate must have established residency in the U.S. for at least 3 out of the last 5 years.
• Candidate must be able to obtain a Federal Public Trust.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience supporting data and test suite configuration with tools such as Jenkins/GitHub.
• Experience with AI test case creation.
• Ability to adapt to quickly changing priorities.
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Strong organizational, attention-to-detail, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Produce estimates for new functionality or enhancements.
• Strong organizational, attention-to-detail, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Agile certification in SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, CSM or other agile certifications.
• Ability to perform in high pressure environment and under strict deadlines.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

The likely salary range for this position is $97,750 - $132,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
None

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:
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