Software Test Engineer

BT-296 – Software Test Engineer Location: McLean, VA (fully on-site, no remote option) Please do NOT apply if you do not have an active Poly clearance. Those without a Poly will not be considered. Technical Requirements Ensure that all development and modifications to existing Sponsor applications comply with Sponsor’s security and architectural policies and regulations. Work with a variety of individuals, including key stakeholders and other development teams in adjacent organizations. The Sponsor Project Manager (PM) will manage priorities. Communicate technical concepts to non-technical audiences. Be responsible for identifying, documenting, and communicating risks and mitigations across the designed system. Review the existing and designed system to identify gaps and minimize overlaps, analyze project needs for alternative solutions, and identify needed layers and modules and how they work together for the system. Review technical implementation strategies and plans, identify inconsistencies and opportunities for improvement and communicate those results to the Sponsor PM. Document and maintain code and workflows such as version control systems/code repositories, task management tools, and open source-style contribution models and issue tracking. Manage, with Sponsor oversight, the developed systems’ lifecycle (to include operating system upgrades, updates, patches, security scans, and configuration changes) and other duties requiring in-depth knowledge of server hardware and software technologies. Be responsible for setting user permissions (including roles) and troubleshooting permission issues. Provide operations and maintenance of applications in the cloud infrastructure. Support Sponsor’s representatives in cloud environment provisioning, engineering, and architecture related activities as applicable to applications. With Sponsor concurrence, implement changes to current applications and data pipelines based on Sponsor requirements. Provide support to manage the Sponsor Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) process. Continuously evaluate progress and evaluate incoming information to ensure the schedules are met. Assist the Sponsor’s product owner with the assessment of program requirements. Assist the Sponsor’s product owner with mitigating or avoiding risks. Use a Sponsor-approved tracking system for issues and problems. Assist the Sponsor’s product owner in alleviating program issues. Interface with stakeholders to ensure user stories are recorded. Coordinate stakeholder engagements, such as user requirements sessions and training. Prepare meeting agendas and meeting minutes. Track work requirements and action items to meet program deadlines. Support tasks requiring collecting, compiling, evaluating, and publishing information and statistical data included in documents, records, forms, reports, plans, policies, and regulations. Deliver development requirements as requested by the Sponsor. Provide applications development and programming support to develop software to implement system-level requirements. Maintain and enhance software solutions based on changing partner requirements, legislation, and policy. Stay current with emerging technologies and industry best practices. Conduct functionality testing for existing applications. Create and maintain an automated test environment in the Sponsor’s AWS environment using technologies such as Selenium or comparable testing tools. Assist in the technical documentation of and design for meeting security requirements, ensuring compliance with Sponsor A&A processes. Develop applications and modifications to existing and new Sponsor applications in compliance with the Sponsor’s architectural guidelines and Authorization and Accreditation (A&A) process. Critical Core Competencies Cloud Services Deploys, operates and maintains web services within the Sponsor’s AWS cloud environment (and potentially other cloud service providers in the future). Demonstrated experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) technologies including AWS Cloud Formation. Web Application Programming Strong problem-solving skills including debugging, testing, and troubleshooting complex web applications; Develops modern web applications using JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks (Angular, React, or Vue); Strong understanding of web application security best practices and usability principles. Scripting Shell scripting such as Bash. Database Technologies Using SQL and database technologies such as MySQL, DynamoDB, or SQL server. Operating Systems Experienced with Linux operating systems. 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) Demonstrated experience with strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing. Demonstrated experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g., Python + pytest, Java + JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript/TypeScript + Playwright/Cypress/Selenium). Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild). Demonstrated experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum). Demonstrated experience with strong defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes. Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience Test Engineering Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis). Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS or CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes. Demonstrated experience with container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads. Demonstrated experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; ability to validate status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling. Demonstrated experience with logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g., CloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK). Demonstrated performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS. Demonstrated experience with test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or epoxy environments). Demonstrated AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, SysOps Associate, or DevOps Engineer). Demonstrated experience in complex, high security, regulated environments. Demonstrated experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences. #J-18808-Ljbffr Bespoketechinc