Quality Assurance Automation Engineer

Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employees. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues, and our communities sets us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

Ardent is seeking a Quality Assurance Automation Engineer to join our team.  

This is an Onsite position located in Tysons, VA. Remote work is subject to the discretion/needs of the customer.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Automation Engineer who is responsible for designing testing procedures. This includes analyzing the functionality of applications and designing automated tests to validate their performance. The Quality Assurance Automation Engineer will serve as a backup to the Quality Assurance Automation Team Lead.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Responsible for designing testing procedures. This includes analyzing the functionality of applications and designing automated tests to validate their performance.
• The Quality Assurance Automation Engineer will serve as a backup to the Quality Assurance Automation Team Lead.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree with eight (8) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment OR No Bachelor’s degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience working on Agile Software Projects that used Agile Scrum or Kanban methodologies.
• DHS Section 508 Trusted Tester certification (must be obtained within six (6) months of contract award).
• Experience implementing test tools to support test automation, performance testing, and code coverage, such as Selenium and SonarQube.
• Experience identifying software application weaknesses and target areas for improvement.

Preferred Requirements:

• Experience meeting with the software design team to discuss verification protocols and collaborate on solving application faults.
• Experience sketching out ideas for automated software test procedures.
• Experience writing automation scripts and implementing software applications.
• Experience reviewing software bug reports and highlighting problem areas.
• Experience troubleshooting automation software and finalizing system procedures.
• Experience identifying quality issues and creating detailed test reports.

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government-issued background investigation process.

Ardent is an equal-opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and will take affirmative action measures to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.