Sr. Automation Engineer

About the job
Please Note:

Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of Federal Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD 
Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.

Position Description:

Lead the development of highly innovative products/solutions, achieved through collaboration and dialogue with other experts in the field. The candidate will continually assess advancements in technologies to gauge and recommend better solutions for the customer to improve the software developer experience and efficient delivery of software. 
Mentor and coach technical staff, proactively shape product vision, and support multiple internal/external initiatives to achieve mission success. The candidate will have past and proven experiences as the technical lead on large, complex projects, and enterprise solutions. 
Provide technical advice/input that impact strategic client outputs and the client business results. 
Impact functional strategy by developing new solutions, processes, standards, or operational plans that position the client competitively in the marketplace 
All other duties as assigned or directed

Key Required Skills:

Strong experience in:

Java 
Selenium 
BDD 
Cucumber 
API Automation 
Maven 
TDD 
Mockito 
Strong experience in building the Automation Testing framework for the Enterprise level complex applications.

Requirements Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field with 7+ years of experience 
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field. 
Masters or Doctorate degree may substitute for required experience 
Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.

Required Skills

Expertise in using Selenium for web application and automating regression test cases (Selenium WebDriver). 
Expertise in building Automation framework from scratch. 
Strong experience developing test scripts to implement Features, Test Scenarios and Step-Definition for BDD (Behavior Driven Development) using Cucumber (Gherkins format) using customized test automation framework 
Experience developing Selenium automation framework using Junit/TestNG frameworks and developing Maven targets to execute automation suites. 
Experience with JAVA, JavaScript-based technologies, such as node.js, angular.js, etc. 
Experience with automation technologies such as Jenkins, Maven, Junit, Mockito. 
Comprehensive knowledge of Scrum and Kanban Agile development process and ceremonies including scrums, planning events, backlog grooming, retrospectives, and demos. 
Strong communication and collaborative skills in providing technical direction and hands-on software development to include design, development, and testing

Desired Skills

Proficiency in using Selenium for web application and automating regression test cases (Selenium WebDriver/Selenium Box). 
Experience with Jenkins Auto jobs, Stash/Bitbucket 
Experience in configuring execution of automated regressions suite using Jenkins CI/CD pipeline. 
Experience maintaining resources in configuration management tools, such as GitHub repository. 
Experience with Version One management tool 
Automation test results debugging.