Test Engineer

Introduction

The Sponsor’s office is architecting and creating a coherent secure data ecosystem that is compatible and synchronized with the overall Sponsor’s data strategy and broader mission capabilities. These solutions and capabilities include a platform to conduct enterprise search, digital forensics, and data analytics. The Sponsor fuses modern, data-centric tradecraft and capabilities with other components in pursuit of extracting maximum value from existing data.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience

• Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in high-performing, cross-functional teams with multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand needs, and translate them into technical solutions with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated experience in self-directed work with a strong ownership mentality and commitment to code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Demonstrated experience context-switching between projects and systems as priorities demand.
• Test Engineering
  - Demonstrated experience testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 1–2 major services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or CloudFront).
• Strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing.
• Experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g., Python + pytest, Java + JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript/TypeScript + Playwright/Cypress/Selenium).
• Experience with writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
• Experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum).
• Defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience

• Test Engineering
  - Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis).
• Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS or CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes.
• Container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads.
• Testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; ability to validate status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling.
• Logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (eCloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK).
• Performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS.
• Test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or ephemeral environments).
• AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, SysOps Associate, or DevOps Engineer).
• Experience in complex, high security, regulated environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

US Citizenship

This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph. Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel

This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA). Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.