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Equivalent relevant education and experience may be considered, subject to contract and customer requirements.\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience introducing automated testing into a software program that previously relied primarily on manual testing.\nExperience building an initial automation framework or establishing a maintainable automated regression suite.\nFamiliarity with one or more test automation frameworks, such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, JUnit, pytest, or equivalent tools.\nExperience testing applications with a combination of user interfaces, APIs, services, and backend components.\nExperience integrating automated tests into an existing CI/CD pipeline.\nFamiliarity with Linux, containerized applications, Kubernetes, or OpenShift environments.\nExperience with integration, end-to-end, performance, or load testing.\nFamiliarity with Agile software development practices and tools such as JIRA and Confluence.\nExperience supporting government software testing organizations or formal customer test events.\nRelevant industry certifications, such as Security+, when required by the customer.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nEstablishing a practical starting point for automated testing and expanding it as the application and team evolve.\nCreating a useful, repeatable regression suite that helps identify defects earlier and reduces repetitive manual effort.\nImproving test case quality, consistency, traceability, and documentation.\nCollaborating with the existing tester and development team to make testing a more integrated part of software delivery.\nProviding actionable feedback that improves application quality and confidence in each release.\nLocation: Customer Site\nUS Citizenship Required\nGDIT IS YOUR PLACE\nAt GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.\nGrowth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities\nSupport: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals\nRewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off\nCommunity: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITY Explore a career at GDIT and you’ll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your ambition to deliver your best work.\nThe likely salary range for this position is $113,900 - $154,100. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.\nScheduled Weekly Hours:\n40Travel Required:\nNoneTelecommuting Options:\nOnsiteWork Location:\nUSA VA SpringfieldAdditional Work Locations:\nTotal Rewards at GDIT:\nOur benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.Our Identity Verification Process:\nAs part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.About Our Work:\nWe are GDIT. 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