Test Automation (SDET)

BCforward

Washington, District of Columbia, USFull-timeMidPosted Recently

SeleniumJUnitJenkinsJavaJavaScriptSQLJIRABDD

Best fit for

This role is best for mid-level QA engineers with hands-on experience in Selenium, BDD (Cucumber / SpecFlow), Jenkins, Java open to working from Washington, District of Columbia, US.

Skills you need for this role

Detected from the job title, description, and tags.

Automation skills

Selenium — Still the most-asked browser automation framework in QA interviews and legacy suites.
BDD (Cucumber / SpecFlow) — Used when product + QA collaborate on executable specs.

CI/CD and DevOps

Jenkins — Legacy CI still widely deployed — expect pipeline-as-code questions.

Programming languages

Java — Dominant language for enterprise QA + Selenium/RestAssured stacks.
JavaScript / TypeScript — Required for Playwright, Cypress, and modern front-end test tooling.
SQL — Data validation and back-office QA rely on solid SQL.

Domain & process

Agile / Scrum — You'll be expected to describe how you fit QA into short iterations.
Test management (Jira / Zephyr / TestRail) — Process fluency — writing test cases, tracing coverage, and reporting defects.

Job description

Company Description About BCforward BCforward began as an IT business solutions and staffing firm. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers' needs into a full service personnel solutions organization. BCforward's headquarters are in Indianapolis, Indiana and also operates delivery centers in 17 locations in North America as well as Hyderabad, India and Puerto Rico. We are currently the largest consulting firm and largest MBE certified firm headquartered in Indiana. With 14+ years of uninterrupted growth, the addition of two brands (Stafforward and PMforward) and a team of more than 1400 resources our teams deliver services for multiple industries from both public and private sectors. BCforward's team of dedicated staffing professionals has placed thousands of talented people over the past decade, with retention rates that are consistently higher than the industry average. Job Description SDET manager manages and leads QA and SDET resources during application analysis, test strategy development, test case creation, automation framework design and development, automated script development, test execution, defect tracking and reporting. The candidate will manage the effort to implement test engineering best practices and solutions and may also be required to train end users. Expertise in developing automated tests for Web, SOA/WS, DW/ETL, JAVA backend applications Proficiency in Agile and Waterfall software development models Expertise in automation tools: Selenium (primary), HP UFT Expertise in test frameworks: Cucumber, JUnit, Mockito Proficiency in applying TDD, ATDD/BDD Expertise in programming languages: JAVA (primary), JavaScript Proficiency with build tools: SVN, Crucible, Maven, Jenkins Strong SQL skills in Oracle Strong Unix and Windows skills Experience with project management tools: Rally, JIRA, HP ALM Strong analytical and problem solving. NOTE: only on W2 GC OR US-CITIZEN Thank you , Asma Khan Suri. 317-210-8729 Additional Information Must be able to pass a background and drug screen

Job highlights

•Role: Test Automation (SDET)
•Company: BCforward
•Location: Washington, District of Columbia, US
•Type: Full-time
•Experience: Mid
•Seniority: Mid
•Posted: Recently

Key skills: Selenium · JUnit · Jenkins · Java · JavaScript · SQL · JIRA · BDD

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Likely interview questions for this role

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Q1.Explain the Page Object Model and how you'd structure it in Selenium.
Q2.How do you handle dynamic waits without using Thread.sleep in Selenium?
Q3.What's the trade-off between BDD and plain unit-style automation frameworks?
Q4.Write a SQL query to find duplicates across two columns and how you'd fix them in test data.
Q5.Walk me through a bug you found that shipped anyway — how did you handle it?

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Salary context

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