Description

SAIC is looking for a Software Tester to provide testing support as a member of an integrated project development and
testing Team.  He/she will be working with other Developers and Testers to test custom developed software as required.
 
The Tester will be responsible for providing input to project release plans that cover project inception through delivery
and on-going operational maintenance.  They will be expected to analyze and solve complex testing related problems; review other developers and
tester’s work products for correctness, adherence to the project design concept and user standards.
The Tester will play a key role for a highly secured system for a government agency. To be successful in this role,
the Tester should be self-motivated and passionate about solving technical problems. The system facilitates high value financial transactions over the Internet. With this in mind, experience with
payment systems, trading systems or other highly secure transactional systems would be highly valuable.

Successful candidate will be responsible for:
Analyzing complex requirements and design documents to develop detailed step by step manual test cases
Executing manual test cases; documenting actual results during execution; reviewing the test results and reporting anomalies (if any) into the defect tracking database
Developing new automation scripts and updating existing scripts to meet the newly added functionalities
Executing automated test scripts; reporting execution results and identifying unsuccessful execution (if any)
Executing Load/Performance testing by running the load test scripts and generating the load test execution results reports
Tracking the defects from creation to closure; documenting detail description of defect and working with developers to reproduce
Deploying software to test environments and monitoring server logs during testing and identify errors and/or unexpected log entries
Participating and/or facilitating the test case peer review meetings and providing feedback making sure that developed test cases meet the client requirements and test conditions verifies the requested functionality
Assisting test lead with release test plan, generating RTM, maintaining regression test database, and creating test reports at the end of each testing phase
Assisting the test lead on performing an internal quality assurance check on all deliverables to ensure that all deliverables are complete, accurate, and adhere to the client’s standards
Providing assistance to business analyst with business/functional requirements and developers with technical requirements 

Qualifications