Federal Quality Engineer (Tester)

Organization: Accenture Federal Services
Location: Washington, DC, San Antonio, TX, St. Louis, MO

We are:  
Accenture Federal Services brings together commercial innovation with the latest technology to unleash the potential for our federal clients. Operating in the nation’s Capital, we stay ahead of what’s coming next. Drawing from the power of Accenture, we deliver integrated, mobile, and interactive experiences that exceed our people’s expectations. Join us where ideas are freely exchanged, and concepts evolve into practical solutions.

You are: 
The musical conductor to our automation testing efforts. Your symphony? The project. Your audience? Our clients. “Testing 1-2-3” Your mic check responsibilities include applying business requirements, Testing knowledge and technical expertise in the implementation of test automation suites to validate software application functionality. You love performing hands on design, coding, enhancing, and testing of software applications in order to meet business process requirements.  Critics and audiences are wowed by how you apply your Testing knowledge and technical expertise in the automation and quality engineering efforts of every delivery. And of course, an in-depth understanding of testing, including theory and concepts are music to your ears.

The work:

• Enables full stack solutions through multi disciplinary team planning and ecosystem integration to accelerate delivery and drive quality across the application lifecycle.
• Performs continuous testing for security, API, and regression suite.
• Creates automation strategy, automated scripts and supports data and environment configuration.
• Participates in code reviews, monitors, and reports defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end to end testing process.

Here's what you need:

• Minimum 2 years of professional work experience with automated testing tools (Worksoft Certify, HP UFT/BPT, Tricentis Tosca, or Selenium framework)
• Minimum 2 years of experience working in the software development life cycle
• Hands on experience with Quality Assurance/Testing (application, product, system, regression testing)
• Experience with a programming language (VB, VBScript, Java, C#, Ruby, Python)
• Experience with having worked with the maintenance of an automation framework

Bonus points if you have:

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Engineering or Technical Science
• Previous consulting experience and understanding customer/business needs
• 508 compliance experience
• Experience developing test automation scripts in Selenium and/or Cucumber
• Experience conducting automation tools analysis, selection, and recommendation
• Experience supporting test automation assessments for multiple projects
• Experience mobilizing and managing test automation projects (tools, resources, & processes)
• Experience developing automation frameworks that are leveraged across multiple resources

Eligibility Requirements:

• US Citizenship required

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York City or Washington as set forth below and information on benefits offered is here

 Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role 

California: From “$93k-$138k” 

Colorado: From “$94k-$130k”

New York City: From “$95k-$150k” 

Washington: From “$93k-$138k”

Equal Employment Opportunity:

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process. Accenture Federal Services is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

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