Key Responsibilities:
• Estimating test case writing and execution effort and keeping track of own and team progress.
• Designing test strategies, test plans, and test cases from requirements, design documents and specifications.
• Estimating test case writing and execution effort and keeping track of own and team progress.
• Test case authoring and holding test case reviews with stakeholders.
• Execution of test cases including functional, regression, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database.
• Reporting defects, tracking, validating and closing.
• Recording test results and reporting them.
• 508 compliance test execution and documentation.
• Identifying regression test candidates for automation, planning automation activities across the team and automating test cases.
• Participation in daily scrum meetings, agile ceremonies and weekly test team meetings.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.
• Install, maintain, or use software testing programs.
• Supporting our metrics program by keeping track and gather metrics on all activities.
• Support UAT activities.
• Support end of sprint demos, user acceptance testing, and solicit feedback from peers, lead and others on test artifacts and processes, as appropriate.
Required Skills:
• Strong front end interface testing with emphasis on user personas.
• Experience with SQL server and experience with writing and executing backend tests using SQL is a MUST. Working experience on different relational databases is a MUST. This role requires the tester to handle SQL at a proficient level.
• Experience with drafting test plans and test cases
• Some experience with web services and API testing
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle and Agile-Scrum development methodology
• Experience with gathering metrics and monitoring progress
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience working in federal healthcare projects. Familiarity with CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) projects is a huge plus
Experience with HP Load Runner, jMeter, Selenium
Experience with section 508 testing
Experience with HP ALM, Subversion, JIRA, Confluence
Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree in a technical field: Computer Science, Engineering or related discipline.
Public Trust Clearance
This role requires the hired candidate to go through public clearance. A minimum of 3 years of stay in the U.S. within the last 5 years is a must to be eligible to qualify for public trust clearance sponsorship.
Benefits and Perks
· 65%-75% company sponsored (including dependents) premiums towards Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance. 100% employer sponsored STD, LTD & Life Insurance (min $100K). Voluntary Life insurance option available.
· Retirement 401(k) Plan with employer matching. Immediate vesting.
· Vacation & Sick leaves
· Discretionary Bonus, Spot awards, Gifts, Tenure based rewards.
· Company sponsored role based certifications/trainings.
· Monthly Doordash DashPass subscription.
· Group discounts via LifeMart ADP
Work Location
Softrams is a 100% remote at the moment and we expect some of our employees to be onsite (Woodlawn, MD) 2-3 times a week post-covid especially if they are customer facing or if there are important team meetings. Softrams works in eastern zone and standard work hours are 9 AM to 5 PM with flexibility around the start and end times based on the individual smaller teams. This role qualifies for 100% remote for the right candidate.
About Softrams
Softrams is a Maryland & Virginia-based small business information technology, consulting, and solutions provider specializing in emerging technologies for UX/UI, Mobile Apps, DevOps, Big Data Analytics, Data Science, and Cyber Security. We offer innovative technology implementations and build customer-centric services that are simple, intuitive, scalable, efficient and most importantly usable.
Softrams is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nation origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.
As a HUBZone certified business, we strongly encourage candidates who reside in a HUBZone area to apply. Click on the link here to check if you are in the HUBZone area (http://map.sba.gov/hubzone/maps/). 
