Overview

• Tier One Technologies has an immediate need for a Sr. Functional & Automation Tester to support our US Government client.
• This will be a 100% remote position.
• SELECTED CANDIDATES WITHOUT REQUIRED CLEARANCE WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION TO RECEIVE IT.

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, and execute functional and automated testing for modern applications, with a focus on quality, security, performance, and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with Product, Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) teams to ensure solutions meet business requirements and quality expectations.
• Lead sprint and release planning activities by identifying testing scope, test data requirements, and required test environments under the guidance of senior team members.
• Lead or contribute to project planning by identifying testing scope, risks, environment needs, test data requirements, and testing tools required to support delivery timelines.
• Translate business and technical requirements into test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and security validation.
• Review business and technical requirements and assist in developing test cases, test scripts, and test data to validate workflows, edge cases, and error handling.
• Execute hands-on functional, manual, and exploratory testing and document results clearly, including reproduction steps and supporting evidence.
• Build and maintain automated tests, including unit, API, integration, and user interface (UI) tests, using established team frameworks and coding standards.
• Validate event- and message-based services and distributed workflows, including systems utilizing message queues such as Apache Kafka, to ensure correct processing, resiliency, and traceability.
• Test and validate API-centric and cloud-ready architectures, including microservices and serverless applications, with a focus on backward compatibility, contract requirements, and integrations with internal and external partners.
• Log, track, and retest defects; participate in defect triage discussions and support root-cause analysis by providing clear observations and comprehensive test evidence.
• Follow secure testing and data-handling procedures and escalate potential security or privacy concerns to the appropriate team members.
• Contribute to Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) testing by executing automated test suites, reviewing results, and helping maintain reliable and maintainable test automation.