QA Engineer/Automation Architect (50898)

Position Objective: The Information Services Branch (ISB) of the Office of Intramural Management (OIM), NHLBI, is looking for a dynamic team member to work seamlessly within our organization for the implementation of innovative IT solutions. Utilize your technical expertise and bring your innovation and best practices in helping us solve these and other public health issues.

This is a full-time position located on the main NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland which is bus/bicycle/Metro (Red Line: Medical Center) accessible.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Project Execution

• Develop detailed and comprehensive test plans by thorough analysis of technical requirements
• Design, develop and execute automated test scripts to validate and verify that application functionalities meet requirements and business needs
• Smoke testing initial build, regression testing bug fixes, compatibility and conformance testing.
• Regression testing and collaborating with the development team on bug fix verification and validation.
• Design and implement manual testing framework and procedures.
• Identify and understand existing manual testing life cycle for custom agile in place.
• Align test case creation and execution with sprint-based development cycles
• Identify and document application defects and functional non-conformities with requirements
• Perform thorough manual and automated functional testing for features deployed in test, staging and production environments
• Design and develop regression test plans for all applications built by the branch
• Schedule and monitor the execution of automated regression tests for all application releases
• Maintain and support the UiPath testing and RPA automation framework
• Collaborate with infrastructure teams to support and upgrade the UiPath automation framework
• Design and build RPA to automate business processes for the user community
• Execute tasks and deliver projects through independent decision making, communication and collaboration as the situation demands.
• End-to-end support and follow through with tasks and customer requests
• Complete tasks independently and meets project milestones
• Deliver major projects and features, patches and bug fixes according to published timelines through comprehensive and timely test execution.
• Collaborate with other branch roles to share information and jointly deliver high quality solutions that meet customer requirements
• Provide timely and effective resolutions for DIR customers for third-party applications supported by the branch

Technical Leadership

• Take ownership and leverages test automation frameworks and best practices to ensure the delivery of high quality and zero-defect business applications
• Possess a deep understanding of industry best practices for application test planning, documentation, execution and automation
• Possess an advanced understanding of industry-trending tools and software used for test automation.
• Perform as a technical mentor to the QA Automation Engineer role

Branch Leadership

• Contribute to evaluating and defining branch priorities and driving towards branch goals

Organizational Awareness

• Develop and maintain a strong understanding of the NHLBI organization, mission, and roles
• Develop and build strong working relationships with NHLBI and NIH partners in the testing and automation domain
• Possess a strong understanding of OIM's processes and continually explores ways to leverage available tools, technologies and platforms to improve processes to meet business needs and organizational goals.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, MIS or related technical field
• 5+ years of experience in software test automation
• 2+ years of experience in UiPath
• Strong understanding of software engineering process and development lifecycle
• Experience in agile methodology and iterative development and testing practices
• Experience in best practices and tools for software testing
• Experience in independently setting up a test framework
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• QA Automation, Test Automation, UiPath, UiPath Test framework with POM(Page object model)
• Proficient in using Test Manager, Orchestrator and other UiPath tools and components for testing
• Expert in UiPath Automation Suite and deployment architecture
• UiPath deployment pipeline orchestration, infrastructure setup(on-premise or cloud), robot scalability and Robotic Enterprise Framework.
• Proficient in creating and documenting test cases, requirements, Traceability Matrix (RTM)
• Identifying and analyzing business processes for process automation, designing and building RPA bots to automate processes
• Proficient in creating attended and unattended bots for testing process automation
• Agile tools such as Jira, Confluence, Team Foundation Server (TFS)
• Configuration management tools such as Git, TFS, SubVersion, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in RPA development
• Test automation of web applications built on Microsoft Dynamics365/Power Platform
• This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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