Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Rockville, MD
Full Time
Mid Level
ESI provides direct support to the Frederick National Lab (FNL) in its support of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and its mission to accelerate the prevention and treatment of cancer. FNL’s support of NCI includes the management and execution of IT projects sponsored by the NCI Center of Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT).
The Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC) and the Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI) are two of the highest-priority programs at the NCI. The CRDC is a secure, cloud-based data science infrastructure that accelerates cancer research by facilitating data submission, sharing, access, interoperability, and cost-effective analysis at scale. It has become a vital resource for the cancer community. The CCDI represents a national commitment to harnessing and sharing data to make faster progress specifically in childhood cancers. The CCDI Data Ecosystem is a dynamic and evolving infrastructure that brings together data from various collections generated or held at institutions across the country and worldwide. It ensures the quality of this data and aligns or standardizes the information so it can be presented consistently back to the community.
Both systems include:
  • Enhanced cloud-computing platforms.
  • Services that link disparate information, including clinical, image, and molecular data.
  • Standards and tools so that data are interoperable.
  • Essential underlying data science infrastructure, methods, and portals for the Cancer Data Ecosystem.
  • Sustainable data governance to ensure long-term health of the Ecosystem.
Roles/Responsibilities of the Sr. QA Engineer:
  • Develop and maintain test plans, test cases and test data.
  • Perform automated testing efforts for our application.
  • Execute automated regression tests.
  • Be a part of agile teams and responsible for testing and validating functionalities of web applications.
  • Design and development of end-to-end automated tests in Selenium.
  • Develop automated tests for RESTful API Endpoints.
  • Interact with application development teams to understand business technical requirements and design.
Basic Qualifications of the Sr. QA Engineer:
  • Possession of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university according to the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in related field.
  • At least 5 years of experience in the above role/responsibilities.
  • Experience working with testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver and JMeter.
  • Experience testing application with micro-services architectures.
  • Experience executing regression tests both manually and automated.
  • Experience with JIRA or other project management, issue-tracking or bug-tracking tools.
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills, including experience working directly with customers to discuss their requirements and objectives.
  • Ability to prioritize, status and multitask.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with strong ability to coordinate and collaborate tasks and activities within a team environment.
  • Ability to work in a busy and complex setting, including working with all levels of staff within the government and familiarity with the nuances of government practices and processes.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Job Type: Full-time

About Essential Software Inc. (ESI):
In a time when federal agencies rely on novel technology solutions, ESI stands as a trusted partner. We have built our success on our commitment to technology, teamwork, and trust. At ESI, we acknowledge and celebrate our dedicated, diverse staff, who consistently strive for and achieve excellence.
ESI offers a robust benefits package that includes health care, paid time off, 401(k) retirement savings, professional development and more.
Work Location: Hybrid (1 day in office, 4 days remote per week) in Rockville, MD 20850
 

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