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USM Business Systems Inc. is a quickly developing worldwide System Integrator, Software and Product Development, IT Outsourcing and Technology assistance supplier headquartered in Chantilly, VA with off-shore delivery centers in India. We offer world-class ability in giving most astounding quality and administrations through industry best practices planned to convey remarkable worth to our customers.

Utilizing our industry knowledge, administration service offering expertise and innovation abilities, we distinguish new business and innovation slants and create answers for help customers around the globe, giving top of the line solid and practical IT benefits which are cost effective services.

Established in 1999, the organization has corner qualities in building and dealing with a Business Oriented IT environment with rich involvement in technology innovation, ERP and CRM counselling, Product Engineering, Business Intelligence, Data Management, SOA, BPM, Data Warehousing, SharePoint Consulting and IT Infrastructure. Our other offerings include modified solutions and administrations in ERP, CRM, Enterprise architecture, offshore advisory services ,e-commerce, Social , Mobile, Cloud, Analytics (SMAC) and DevOps.

USM, a US ensured Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) is perceived as one of the fastest developing IT Systems Integrator in the Washington, DC zone. Most as of late, USM was positioned #9 on the rundown of the Top administrations organizations in the DC Metro Area - Washington Business Journal (2011). We are a project-driven firm that reliably meets the IT needs of our State and Government customers through development and business keenness.

Role : JUNIOR-MID LEVEL QA Test Engineer 

No of positions : 4 

Location: Reston, VA

Immigration status: EAD/GC/USC ONLY 

Length: 6 Months Contract to Hire

Client is looking for candidate to convert this after 6 months Contract to Hire. 

Only locals to VA/MD/DC who can do only F2F on 3/14 between 3-6 PM (No Skype)

4 open - contract to hire at client Location in Reston, VA. - building a software product supporting the healthcare exchange system. very diverse environment - quick process.  

Must be able to convert.  

Technical degree

REQUIRED SKILLS: 

Strong SQL, Unix and manual testing

Good understanding of OO languages, including foundation in C#/Java. (Not coding in this but able to read enough code to understand bugs.) Good UNIX command understanding and solid SQL skills, including inner/out joins, table indexing and ability to query a database.

Primary Responsibilities

Work in a cutting edge agile software development environment to ensure the quality of our enterprise web solutions

Design test plans, scenarios, scripts or procedures

Communicate with product analyst in creating acceptance tests as part of the requirements, and execute those tests manually, as well as automate them

Manage the agile team's test case inventory

Work proactively with members of an Agile team to find and fix defects in our product architecture

Produce and maintain test coverage reports for functional and automation coverage

Analyze defects / test results and be able to deduct the chain of events leading to a failure

Provide feedback on how to improve our product solutions, tools and other technical software features

Participate in the constant improvement of our Test Automation, and Continuous Integration practices

Write SQL code as part of data setup, as well as to verify test results in manual and automated testing

Talk directly with real customers to make sure your great products deliver real business value

Integrate customer feedback into our products

Requirements

Minimum 3 years of experience with Quality Assurance methodologies and software testing

3- 5 years of experience as a Software Test Engineer or Software QA Engineer

Knowledge of software test case design techniques like boundary value, decision table, pairwise, state transition, use case testing

Ability to write intermediate SQL code

Ability to write code in an object-oriented language, such as C#, Java,

Understand quality assurance methodologies and the principles of software design

Experience developing and executing test plans

Self-motivated team player with strong problem solving skills

Strong initiative to improve processes, tools, methodologies, and overall quality of the product

Experience developing your own testing tools to facilitate testing a plus

Knowledge of white box testing techniques like basis path using cyclomatic complexity, control flow and data flow

Experience creating a test automation framework or testing tool

Education/Certification/License: 

Bachelors Degree in the following fields: Computer Science, Information Systems or Software Engineering

Certified Software Tester (CSTE) preferred.

If you are interested in above position, please share your updated resume to taherm(at)usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703-349-4237.