Job Description

Description

Discover careers that change the world and further advancements in defense, technology, and engineering today at Northrop Grumman. Use your experience to grow your career and support our global customers with the technology, systems, and solutions they need to enable their missions on the front lines and secure our world every day. With Northrop Grumman, you rsquo;ll discover a culture built on diversity, respect, and above all teamwork. Together with our group of experts across the technical spectrum, you rsquo;ll discover opportunities to make a difference in our world and start solving some of the world rsquo;s most critical problems in the most innovative ways.

Northrop Grumman Defense Systems is seeking a Software Development Analyst (Automation Tester) to support the Social Security Administration in Woodlawn, MD.

The Software Development Analyst (Automation Tester) researches, designs, develops, and/or modifies enterprise-wide systems and/or applications software. Involved in planning of system and development deployment as well as responsible for meeting software compliance standards. Evaluates interface between hardware and software, operational requirements, and characteristics of overall system. Documents testing and maintenance of system corrections.

Description of Work:

* Designs test plans for complex distributed systems in accordance with overall testing strategy
* Participate in the full life cycle of an agile project and design and execute manual and automated test scripts
* Develop and execute maintainable automation tests for acceptance, functional, and regression test cases
* Investigate and debug test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary and provide test coverage analysis based on automation results
* Regularly leads team through preparing and estimation sessions to define acceptance criteria, ensures that the team 39;s acceptance criteria for stories and tasks is appropriate and being met universally
* Quality Assurance to ensure full functional testing of new features being added every sprint, as well as full regression testing for all previously implemented functionality in every sprint
* Collaborate with development organization to understand how development changes affect ongoing Automation efforts
* Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test object developed and test environments used
* Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics and provide weekly and monthly status to management
* Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis

Qualification

Basic Qualifications:

* Bachelor rsquo;s degree and 4 years of relative experience, OR Master 39;s degree and 2 years of relative experience, in an IT field.
* 2 years of experience in developing and maintaining automated testing framework and infrastructure
* 1 year of experience with Selenium Web driver, Selenium Grid, and DB2
* 1 year of experience with Unit Testing tools such as Junit, TestNG, Cucumber and Protractor
* 1 year of experience in developing automated test plans, test scenarios, test scripts, acceptance criteria, test data, investigating, and debugging test failures, updating tests or reporting bugs as necessary
* 1 year of Core Java technical expertise including JEE, Frameworks (Struts, Spring), object oriented design and design pattern
* Must be US Citizen or US Permanent Resident (Green card holder)
* Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

* Prior experience with SSA or similar government agencies
* Experience in working in an Agile Development environment and automating application developed in Agile Development environment
* Experience in integrating project testing with continuous-integration process