Prin. Software Test Architect (Contingent)

Job Description

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, seeks Engineers to be part of an engineering team for the AF DCGS High Band Mission Applications Software (HBMAS) Sustainment and Development program. The team will oversee/perform software development and sustainment for cloud-enabled systems that ingest, tag, and audit data sets, while maintaining security, integrity, and availability of data. The team will focus on developing and fielding operationally relevant system capabilities in the most effective and efficient manner. The team will apply best practices across the engineering continuum, with a focus on improved software quality and process efficiency.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting test strategies and automated test frameworks for cloud-native, microservice-based applications
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and testing distributed systems deployed in modern CI/CD environments
• Expertise in validating security requirements, enforcing security gates in CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring compliance with DevSecOps best practices
• Demonstrated success driving code quality through automated testing, continuous integration, API validation, and contract-testing patterns
• Skilled in identifying system-level defects, diagnosing complex issues, and driving long-term quality improvements through root-cause analysis
• Proficiency with observability and distributed tracing tools to evaluate system behavior, resiliency, and performance (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, OpenSearch, etc.)
• Experience supporting both new feature development and sustainment activities, ensuring test coverage evolves with changing architecture and requirements

What You Will Do

• Architect, maintain, and optimize automated test frameworks for cloud-native applications running in Kubernetes environments
• Design and implement automated testing across CI/CD pipelines, including integration, regression, API, contract, performance, and security testing
• Integrate security, resiliency, and quality controls directly into the pipeline to support secure and reliable software delivery
• Collaborate daily with software engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, and product teams to ensure alignment with architecture and product objectives
• Use observability and distributed tracing tools to validate system behavior and diagnose issues within microservices and distributed systems
• Identify systemic quality gaps, lead root-cause analysis, and drive long-term improvements in reliability, scalability, and performance
• Support both sustainment and new feature development by ensuring test coverage evolves with changing architecture and requirements