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Do you want to make a difference?

Cognosante employees are passionate about improving people’s lives. With an innovative mindset and an unwavering commitment to those we serve, we partner with healthcare, civilian and defense agencies to deliver exceptional public services and programs. Our multi-faceted technology and customer experience (CX) solutions achieve program outcomes, solve critical challenges and create meaningful change. Whether we are helping Veterans access healthcare faster, ensuring that members of the military complete their missions safely, or helping people obtain health insurance, our work touches millions of people. Are you ready to make a difference?

Come Join Our Team

Our work with the Dept of Veteran Affairs delivers clinical care to Veterans by managing the logistics and flow of supplies and equipment. Supply Chain Management (SCM) ensures that the right equipment and supplies are available when needed, and the Supply Chain Management Product Line (SCM PL) encompasses the activities to procure resources, manage supplies, and deliver goods and services to providers and patients.

What is the position?

The Test Engineer performs testing activities; coordinates the development and execution of test plans; documents, implements, monitors, and enforces all processes and procedures for testing; facilitates communications between the development and testing teams; verifies readiness of release through release review process; obtains customer signature on deliverables; reviews and approves contractor test plans; drafts testing reports and forwards to team members; and prepares QA reports for release ready builds. Excellent written and verbal communication and collaboration skills are essential to this role.

What will I get to do?

• Conduct functional, system, integration, regression testing of software applications to identify bugs and issues.

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on software requirements and technical specifications.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure product quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Participates in reviews of systems and elements under development to ensure traceability of requirement compliance through verification and validation.

• Record test results and prepare detailed defect reports for developers.

• Help improve the quality assurance process by contributing to process improvement efforts.

• Actively engage in user acceptance testing (UAT) in coordination with end-users.

• Analyze test results and provide recommendations to improve software performance.

• Conducts readiness for system integration, test, evaluation, and transition activities.

What qualifications do I need?

• 5 years of relevant experience, 8 years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education.

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related scientific or technical discipline

• Experience collaborating with developers, end users and organizations to create test plans and test scripts.

• Experience with configuring necessary hardware and operating environments as needed to complete assigned testing.

• Experience in writing or assisting in the development of test plans and test procedures.

Additional Minimum Quals

• Knowledge of VA VistA systems and VA financial systems

• Knowledge of testing functionality, matching to requirements, and having primary responsibility for individual projects and systems.

• Experience on Selenium with JAVA programming language in BDD framework

• Strong understanding of DevSecOps method and continuous integration & continuous delivery (CI/CD) concepts and practices.

• Experience working in an Agile scrum solution development and testing environment.

• Working knowledge in Automation frameworks, developing, designing, and executing test automation scripts (Selenium, API Tools (Postman), any one of behavior driven development (BDD) or Test-driven development (TDD frameworks like Cucumber).

• Familiarity with Confluence, JIRA, and test case management systems for creating test artifacts and reporting for leadership.

• Obtain and maintain a VA Public Trust (Moderate Risk) clearance.

What additional characteristics will help me thrive?

• Experience working with the Federal Government, to include military experience

• Experience working in the Dept of Veteran Affairs (VA)

• Experience working in a geographically dispersed project team environment

• Active VA Public Trust (Moderate Risk) clearance

What We Offer  

Our mission is to provide comprehensive and competitive pay, benefits, services, and programs to eligible employees and their dependents that: 

• Ensure optimal health and productivity of our employees  

• Support employee retention and attraction 

• Provide work/life balance to ensure our employees succeed inside and outside of the office 

Compensation

$96,760.98 - $154,817.56

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 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 Cognosante’s total compensation package for employees. It 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.

What We Promise  

Cognosante employees are inspired by our bold mission to improve lives. To achieve this mission, we put our people first. No matter where they're located around the nation, our innovative workplaces enable individuals to apply their skills and experience to work toward a greater good.

We foster a winning culture of solution creators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. And we invest in the next generation of diverse talent to foster an inclusive, progressive, adaptable workplace that prioritizes advancement for all. As an affirmative action employer, we are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.  

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At Cognosante, we innovate with purpose. Each day, we create meaningful change by delivering mission-driven solutions for healthcare, civilian, and defense government agencies. When you work at Cognosante, you’ll apply your talents and grow your career with an organization that believes in the missions of our customers – and the right every employee has to an inclusive, flexible, and collaborative workplace. Work with us, and you’ll be challenged and supported—and have the platform to elevate your career to wherever your professional aspirations lead.​

Get to know Cognosante employees

• We’re driven by our customers’ missions, and measure success by how we improve lives.

• We believe innovative solutions start with an innovative culture.

• We believe customer understanding is the key to creating innovative solutions.

• We know we are stronger together, and we value the diversity of our people.

• We believe growth should be a core job benefit.

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