Security Verification Test Engineer (FS Poly Required)

Job Description

Job Description

Security Verification Test (SVT) Software Engineer
Location:       Annapolis Junction, MD 
Clearance:    FS Poly Required (poly must be within last 6 years)
Compensation: DOE (depends on experience)

Security Verification Test (SVT) Software Engineer

The selected individual will perform software development activities as a member of an agile development team focused on preparation and execution of verification tests of our software releases. Development includes the full range of turning agile stories into implementable concepts, through development, testing and deployment of the new capabilities in this large, complex system. Following the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) pattern, our developers are responsible for implementing robust testing leveraging DEVOPS automation and, where appropriate, use of test automation commercial tools. Developers will have the opportunity to focus on developing customer domain specific language code and there are a range of opportunities for Java, embedded C++, scripting languages, object-oriented modeling tools, low-level programming, serialization/deserialization, and dependency injection.

Primary Responsibilities
The  SVT Software Engineer will be responsible for software development activities both individually and as a member of an agile team. She/he will actively participate in Program Increment planning and related team activities, and will analyze and study complex system requirements, use design software tools, provide support using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, and other accepted design techniques with the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools, and will use sound software engineering principles to ensure that developed code is modifiable, efficient, reliable, understandable, fault tolerant, and reusable. The individual will provide software process management and control throughout the coding portion of the software development process. Additionally, the individual will promote code reuse and cross-program collaboration while reducing maintenance costs by creating common functions and shared actions for developers and testers. The selected individual will engineer, author, tune, and document automation scripts in a development environment and deploy to the test/production bench.

Basic Qualifications

• Must have demonstrated experience with Java.
• In-dept experience or familiarity with multiple the following: Java/JEE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, WADL, PERL, PowerShell, VBS, Eclipse, Postgres, Oracle, Jenkins.
• Experience with Web Application User Interface Development, knowledge of databases and structures, and/or experience working with JSON, HTML, XML, XSLT.
• Experience with technologies underlying cryptographic systems (symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, ASN.1 encoding, XML canonicalization, digital signatures)
• Experience developing on Windows, and/or Linux operating systems.
• Must have documented professional experience with web services.
• Must have a strong understanding of sound software development principles and practices.
• Must be able to plan and prioritize personal tasking and be able to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Must be an independent thinker, capable of performing high quality work, both independently and with a team in a fast-moving environment. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and at least 8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with high level requirements management including requirements decomposition, secure systems engineering and development, trade-off analysis, interface control, and testing and continuous integration.
• Experience in software development on Agile teams using Agile Developer practices such as Pair Programming, TDD, Refactoring, and ATDD.
• Developing/integrating with custom defined Domain Specific Languages (DSL).
• Implementing structures in a scripting language that can be interpreted by a DSL.
• Experience with Object Software Modeling tools.
• Experience with developing real-time embedded software.
• Experience with the following: JEE (EJB, JPA, JTA, JAX-B, JAX-RS, JAX-WS), SQL, application servers (Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss), scripting.
• Experience with FITNesse, Mockito, Cucumber, Unified Functional Tester (UFT), Selenium.
• Experience with Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
• Secure Software development (i.e., Layer 7 Policy).
• Experience with the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methodology, SAFe Agilest Certification, or experience as a member of an agile team.
• Additional experience in J2EE, Python, C/C++, SQL, SOAP, WSDL, Postgres, Oracle, Mongo, PowerShell a plus.​

Who we are...   
August Schell offers 30 years of experience in providing our customers innovative solutions and engineering services to their most challenging needs. We thrive on navigating complex IT difficulties and are driven to find the best solutions for our customers. Our team delivers expert knowledge in cyber security, big data, endpoint security and cloud solutions. Our ability to serve our customers with continued excellence is a direct reflection of our dedicated and exceptional people. At August Schell, we are not only a team, we are a family. 

Equal Employment Opportunity
August Schell Enterprises Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing a workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), national origin, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Accommodations
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact Human Resources at  View email address on ziprecruiter.com

Note
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) of this position. Employees will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by any person authorized to give instructions or assignments. All duties and responsibilities are essential functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities.

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