Halfaker and Associates, an award-winning high growth small business, creates innovative and customer-centric technology solutions in the areas of Digital Services, Data Analytics, Cyber Security and Cloud Services to improve the health, security and well-being of all Americans. Our commitment to excellence and our vision to “Continue to Serve” has resulted in steady growth and an expanding client base across government agencies in the health, defense, security and intelligence sectors. Our strong focus on internal culture has helped Halfaker achieve several workplace awards including Great Place to Work Certification™ and Tampa Bay Top Workplaces. Headquartered in Arlington, VA, we have employees nationwide. Please take a moment to browse through our website and learn more about what it means to serve with Halfaker.
Halfaker has an opening a SOFTWARE TESTER (API TESTER) to join our talented, dynamic team. The key responsibilities for this position include:
- Convert functional and technical requirements into manual and automated test scripts to validate cross-system data interchanges to support multiple CRM D365 applications
- Define and identify test data required for adequate testing of cross-system applications based on an Interface Control Document (ICD)
- Utilize automated test framework based, such as Selenium, to automate API use cases
- Utilize custom testing techniques, such as SOAP/UI and SQL, to validate interfaces with dependent systems
- Update system documentation, including user stories and requirements, to reflect changes resulting from enhanced CRM functionality or defect fixes
- Work closely with Development Team for test case preparation and manages the artifacts and process within the quality assurance framework
- Support to DevOps development teams test planning and execution as part of the Release Plan
- Communicate issues, problems, or risks to leadership with recommended solutions
- Meet with program personnel and VA stakeholders and support to reporting efforts
- Utilize professional judgement, critical thinking skills and research to resolve issues affecting system performance
Required Skills
- Experienced in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies -Traditional Waterfall Model and iterative approach to software development as per Agile (Scrum) methodology
- Knowledge of JIRA, Quality Center & ALM tools for defect tracking
- Expertise in Sanity and Regression testing
- Able to perform required testing during production deployments/ testing phase of any project
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as strong customer service and problem-solving skills
- Create and edit XML schema definitions (XSD), RESTful API Modeling (YAML) using Open API standards, should have worked on API testing
- Knowledge of the latest quality assurance techniques, and knowledge in creating test coverage
- Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
Required Experience
- Bachelor's in business, computer science, MIS or other four-year related degree
- 5+ years of defining and developing test plans, scenarios, test scripts and test cases
- 4+ years of QA / API testing , Integration testing on backend side
- At least 1 year of hands on experience with Oracle DB/SQL
- Strong experience with Azure environments
Halfaker and Associates, LLC, is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.