Software Quality Assurance Specialist​/Applications Tester

Introduction

The Sponsor serves as the principal conduit between CIA and former CIA officers (alumni) to facilitate continued contributions to mission, mitigate counterintelligence risks, honor service, and streamline communications. The Sponsor seeks to enhance and refine the Alumni Relations TS and Unclassified Ecosystem to further meet ongoing and developing requirements. This ecosystem, once fully operational, will meet mission requirements for alumni engagement, provide a secure bidirectional communication to enable the Sponsor to disseminate important guidance, reduce alumni security concerns, and enable the alumni to comply with reporting requirements.

• Demonstrated experience developing and conducting software compatibility tests with programs, hardware, operating systems, or network environments.
• Demonstrated experience preparing documentation such as program-level, user-level, and security documentation.
• Demonstrated experience performing as an Agile Scrum Master.
• Demonstrated experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and MS Azure cloud technologies.
• Demonstrated experience with Jenkins, Github, Docker, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Cloud Formation, or Terraform.
• Demonstrated experience with Linux administration and scripting languages including Bash and Python.
• Demonstrated experience with full ELK stack such as Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, and Filebeat.
• Demonstrated experience with JavaScript/HTML/CSS web user interfaces.

• Demonstrated experience analyzing customer requirements and providing technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies.
• Demonstrated experience working with systems analysts, engineers, programmers and others to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical support during software installation or configuration.
• Demonstrated experience designing and customizing software for client use in a cloud environment with the aim of optimizing operational efficiency.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 100% employer-paid health coverage
• a 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• bonuses
• professional development, and more.