CDM Smith is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance and Quality Control Analyst to join our Digital Engineering Solutions team. This individual will be part of the Development group within the Digital Engineering Solutions team, helping design and implementation of cloud-based solutions facilitating CI/CD pipeline, and ensuring that software development and operations teams work collaboratively. An ideal candidate will be a critical thinker, proactive, and a highly interested in the application of new technologies and methods. This individual must showcase exceptional abilities in implementing solutions for AEC initiatives that involve cutting-edge technologies. As a member of the Digital Engineering Solutions team, the Development group will be engaged in research and development and provide guidance and oversight to the AEC practices at CDM Smith, engaging in new product research, and the incubation of innovative ideas that arise from around the company. The ideal candidate should possess an extensive background in application development, that includes security, scaling, integration, and application migration, along with a commitment to continuous advancement and interest that drives measurable results.

The following are the Key responsibilities for this position
• Take responsibility for the project and work independently in a collaborative environment.
• Good knowledge of the Agile/Waterfall approach and how Quality Assurance fits into it.
• Demonstrate an expertise of the principles of black-box and white-box testing and follow to the testing procedures.
• Ensure that the company's, federal, state, local, and other global enterprise solutions are following the industry testing standards and regulations.
• Analyze storyboards, wireframes, and mockups, and to design test cases, requires strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficient in the development of automated testing solutions from the ground up.
• Expertise in breaking down feature requirements to develop effective targeted and end-to-end testing scenarios, as well as estimating test effort.
• Contribute to the QAQC requirements of the globally distributed development team, including the creation of test plans.
• Track defects, analyze and communicate test results, and engage in daily QA activities.
• Reviews quality manuals, process procedures, design plans, and test procedures to gain insight into the problem's scope, requirements, and functionality.
• Experience with web-based apps, cross-browser testing, and mobile application testing.
• Hands-on execution of test cases and updating documentation with results as needed.
• A strong desire to solve issues and provide practical answers, as well as the willingness to master new technologies to satisfy business objectives.
• Competent at suggesting and creating testing frameworks.
• Prioritize the tasks on the project task list, manage it, and work with the offshore team to finish it as soon as possible.
• Collaborate with the technical, development, and project teams to resolve testing related issues and improve software QA methods and methodologies

Skills and Abilities:
• Take ownership of the project and work independently in a team environment.
• Knowledge of the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) methodologies include Agile methodology, Waterfall methodology, V-Model, validation, Iterative development, Continuous Integration, Failure testing, Automated testing, and Incremental methodology,
• Proficient in Black-box, White-box, Integration, Regression, System, Sanity, Smoke, Acceptance, Performance & Security testing.
• Proficient in testing Web and mobile-based applications, experience in dynamic testing tirelessly to identify bugs in all parts of your app’s UX.
• Proficient in developing and maintaining test plans, test scenarios, test cases, test defect tracking, summary reporting, and test scripts to perform thorough testing and validate the data, based on business requirements.
• Proficiency in test automation frameworks (Selenium, Appium or Tricentis Tosca etc.)
• Knowledge of programming skills required with any of Java, C#, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience testing the Modern interface patterns, Responsive, rendering technologies Web Design, Single Page Applications design, UI/UX prototype design, and backend architecture.
• Working knowledge of debugging tools (Fiddler).
• Proficiency with version control practices using git, including branching, collaboration, reviewing pull requests, and resolving merge conflicts (GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Experience with building servers. (Azure CICD Pipeline, Jenkins, and Cruise controls).
• Experience with Source controls systems (DevOps, GitHub, SVN, or TFS).
• Knowledge of MVC, MVVM, and SPA-based web applications, Microservices, and Monolith architecture.
• Knowledge of Object-Oriented Programming and Functional programming.
• Knowledge of development layers, including, Presentation, Business/Logic, Service, and Database layers.
• Working knowledge of development IDEs (Visual Studio, Eclipse, etc.).
• Working knowledge with OWASP security principles, understanding accessibility, and security compliance tools (e.g., Sonar Lint, SonarQube, Zap).
• Knowledge of security regulations and potential issues including Identity & Access Management (IAM), Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), and security authentication technologies (e.g., MSAL, OAuth2.0, JWT)
• Working experience in Release management, and Bug tracking tools (e.g., Zephyr, etc.).
• Knowledge of, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular Bootstrap, SQL, SharePoint, JSON, or XML objects.
• Knowledge of API Testing using Postman, Swagger UI.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud infrastructure and its capabilities.
• Willing to enhance skills with cutting edge technology and tools to stay competitive in the industry.