ME-Automated Test Engineer

ME00602 — Automated Test Engineer

Location:

Annapolis Junction, Maryland, United States.

Momentum Engineering, Inc. fosters an employee‑centric culture. Our strength lies in our people. With a high percentage of employees holding advanced degrees in engineering, computer science, and related disciplines, we bring deep technical expertise to every mission. Our team includes professionals with security clearances and full‑scope polygraphs, ensuring trusted, secure support for the most sensitive national security initiatives. Additionally, our workforce is equipped with industry‑leading certifications, demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and excellence.

Most importantly, our exceptional employee retention rate reflects a culture of professional growth, mission focus, and dedication—ensuring long‑term stability and expertise for our customers’ critical needs.

• Serve as the primary liaison across engineering teams to support coordination of test and evaluation, ensuring system and capability performance requirements are met.
• Support testing activities as a member of the test, development, and deployment team.
• Assume key activities in defense of emerging threats in the cybersecurity domain and work as part of a team that develops and tailors capabilities with the common goal to prevent and eradicate threats to critical U.S. systems.

• Develop and execute automated test and evaluation plans for custom software as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Coordinate and integrate evaluation and testing tasks and products.
• Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving test and evaluation (T&E) status to help manage program risk: develop alternative courses of action, workarounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re‑evaluate risks at appropriate milestones.

• Must have active Top Secret/SCI clearance with NSA Full Scope Polygraph.
• Must have a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Seven (7+) years’ experience creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
• Five (5+) years of experience applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automated test scripts to validate new features, custom applications, configuration changes, and system upgrades.
• Experience managing regression testing including comprehensive coverage of all software/system patches, upgrades, releases.
• Experience writing/maintaining high‑quality documentation for test plans, automation standards, and execution procedures.
• Experience working within cloud infrastructure in classified AWS environment.
• Scripting experience with Python is desired.
• Ability to work with version control systems (e.g., SVN, GIT), and experience with JIRA ticketing tool, and understanding of basic CM principles.
• Strong written and verbal communications with experience working as part of an Agile Development Team.

• No desired qualifications listed at this time.

Exempt hourly position. 11 paid holidays, minimum of 3 weeks PTO, company‑sponsored group medical plan, company‑paid dental, vision, life insurance, and STD/LTD plans. Salary is dependent upon the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

Pay range: 175, USD per year (NBP).