Job Description

Security Clearance required: Public Trust

Cognosante is on a mission to transform our countrys healthcare and national security systems. With our health and security-focused solutions, we help public sector organizations achieve the important task of providing the best possible public services to American Citizens. From Enterprise IT, Data Science, and Security Services, to full-scale Consumer Engagement and Interoperability solutions, we are moving government services forward with transformation and innovation. Learn how we are making a difference in peoples lives today!


Cognosante is looking for a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to design, create/implement, and maintain tests and test automation in support of product quality improvements across the development organization this includes building and maintaining Devops CI/CD pipelines. Candidates should have extensive experience with manual, black and transparent box testing, compressive understanding of open source tech stacks, cloud, hybrid and distributed computing systems in general. Also critical to this role is the ability to work with and in some cases test transactional databases, data warehousing and analytics in isolation from other constituent distributed components.

Key Responsibilities

• Define tests determined by story acceptance criteria (including functional, load and performance tests) and applicable project standards
• Create, implement, and maintain test automation frameworks and solutions
• Instruct QA Team members and other staff in test automation techniques and methods
• Assist release engineering in creating automated build verification and system integration test frameworks and tests
• Participate effectively in estimation, planning, cost-of-quality, and quality risk analysis
• Participate in project-wide reviews of requirements, system architecture, and detailed design documents
• Participate in a DevOps culture, working closely with developers, other SDETs and systems architects to design, build and maintain DevSecTestOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Additional duties may be assigned

Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors degree in computer science/Information and telecommunications system management or related IT degree OR 6 years relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience
• Experience in real-time systems, internet applications, data processing systems, database systems or distributed cloud and hybrid systems in general
• Must be proficient with at least one of the following programming languages: Java, C#, Python.
• Familiarity with with transactional databases such as MySql, Oracle or MS SQL and proficient with the ISO/IEC (ANSI X3.135) standard SQL language (implementation or brand agnostic)
• Experience with DevOps and CI/CD systems

Candidates that do not meet the required qualifications will not be considered.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in system architecture; DB and application design, architecture.
• Experience working with AWS Cloud Services stack and Amazon RDS
• Familiarity with AWS Identity and Access Management, Lamda and AWS Route 53
• Strong analytical capabilities to understand data sets to derive business conclusions while identifying anomalies based on business rules
• Experience or knowledge of Snowflake Data Warehousing platform
• Experience with Oracle and SQL to include programming experience developing stored procedures and functions
• Experience with unit-testing frameworks, mocking and code coverage frameworks such as PyTest, NUnit, MOQ, WireMock, DotCover
• Experience with JS unit-testing, mocking and code coverage frameworks such as Jest/Sinon.JS/Enzyme
• Experience with Selenium UI testing framework.
• Experience with the use of network analyzers such as Fiddler, Wireshark, Netmon or Microsoft Message Analyzer
• Employment is subject to the successful completion of multiple background investigations (CMS eQIP & Cognosantes), verification of qualifications, completion of onboarding forms, submission of required documents, and any other job-related requirement before or after appointment.

Compensation

$93,942.70 - $150,308.31

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may will be taken into consideration - contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of Cognosantes total compensation package for employees and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee.

Cognosante will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits for this position.

Like many other growing companies, Cognosante has been targeted by scammers attempting to make fraudulent job offers to potential candidates. Communication from Cognosante recruiting will only be sent with an official corporate domain email (e.g., @cognosante.com or @accurate.com) and not a commercial domain e-mail (e.g., @gmail.com or @yahoo.com). We will never request payment from you, nor will we send payment to you, prior to your start date. If you have been asked to send or receive any payment, or if you have any doubt about whether you have been contacted by a Cognosante employee, please contact us at . Thank you.

Cognosante is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.

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