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SDET/Test Automation Lead
Herndon, VA

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Position Description:

CGI has an immediate need for an SDET/Test Automation Lead to join our financial services team in Herndon, VA. This is an exciting full-time opportunity to work in a fast-paced team environment supporting one of the largest leaders in the secondary mortgage industry. We take an innovative approach to supporting our client, working side-by-side in an agile environment using emerging technologies.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

* Lead application automation and testing of large scale mission critical systems.
* Apply significant automation architecture and test methodology expertise to ensure quality and reliability of our systems.
* Apply expertise in market and industry trends to further testing frameworks, accelerators and methodologies. Integrates engineering and product teams in designing and developing enterprise-level automated test methodologies. Leads product development team in writing actionable, testable product requirements in the form of user stories.
* Research market and industry trends in the development and maintenance of test tools and frameworks to validate unit, integration and functional tests of the system.
* Anticipate product development team needs for specialized test tools and frameworks.
* Evaluate and improve testing methodologies and enterprise frameworks for continuous improvement.
* Facilitate the design and development of automated test methodologies, collaborating with engineering and product teams to implement shift left techniques on test design and automation.
* Support test engineering efforts to implement enterprise frameworks to enhance overall testing capabilities. This includes developing automation frameworks to handle new and existing automation patterns for existing and future tech stack and platforms.
* Leverage leadership and coding expertise to leads product development team in the development and maintenance of test tools and frameworks to validate unit, integration and functional tests of the system.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

* 6+ years of related experience required.
* Minimum 8+ years enterprise IT application experience that includes at least 6+ years of experience to programmatically test the product, measure test coverage, develop the best automation practices, drive testability and diagnostic ability into the product, while promoting best practices in quality areas desired.
* Demonstrated leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices desired.
* Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment desired.
* Experience working with SDET teams on providing technical guidance for automation desired.
* 6+ years' experience hands-on technical lead, leading medium to large team(s)
* 5+ years application development experience using Agile methodologies
* 5+ years' experience working in Java/JEE, JPA/Hibernate, Web services (REST), Rules frameworks
* 2+ years' experience working in Angular and associated unit frameworks like Jasmin/Karma
* 5+ years' experience working in UNIX based environments.
* Expertise in automation tools: Selenium, Rest-Assured, Selenide, Responsive Web Testing Tools like Applitools/Galen, Saucelabs
* Experience using code quality/coverage tools like SonarQube, CAST etc.
* Experience with load and scalability tools such as JMeter, BlazeMeter or LoadRunner
* Experience developing automated tests using or executing on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Docker containers
* Expertise in test frameworks: Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito, TestNG
* Proficiency in applying ATDD/BDD, TDD
* Expertise in programming language: JAVA, JavaScript
* Proficiency with build tools: SVN, GIT, Crucible, Maven, Sonar, Jenkins, Nexus
* Strong SQL skills in Oracle
* Experience with agile management tools: JIRA, XRay
* Ability to work effectively as part of a team and mentor staff
* Strong analytical and problem solving skills
* Strong verbal and written communication skills

Education:

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent required

Skills:

* Application Development
* Leadership
* Test Strategies
* Java
* Java Enterprise Editions JEE
* Oracle
* Selenium
* SQL
* Unix

What you can expect from us: Build your career with us.

It is an extraordinary time to be in business. As digital transformation continues to accelerate, CGI is at the center of this change-supporting our clients' digital journeys and offering our professionals exciting career opportunities.

At CGI, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our professionals. As one team, we share the challenges and rewards that come from growing our company, which reinforces our culture of ownership. All of our professionals benefit from the value we collectively create.

Be part of building one of the largest independent technology and business services firms in the world.

Learn more about CGI at www.cgi.com.

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CGI is an equal opportunity employer.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, sex, religion, creed, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation or perceived sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, and gender expression, familial status, political affiliation, genetic information, or any other legally protected status or characteristics.

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