Test Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Test Engineer with Security Clearance
Overview As a Test Engineer, you will work with our growing Dev Sec Ops  practice delivering quality assurance services to support application, cloud, and data systems development. We are looking for candidates with 3-5 years experience with experience with quality assurance and test automation practices in an Agile/Dev Sec Ops  work environment. Contributions
* Understand stakeholder and business needs and convey requirements clearly to developers, data engineers, and delivery teams
* Partner with product design, engineering, and data teams to define testing scope, parameters, and strategies
* Write and maintain test plans, test cases, test procedures, defect reports, and final QA artifacts to support traceability and auditability
* Manage test data requirements, including test data architecture definitions and requests
* Troubleshoot issues, analyze test results, and continuously streamline and improve testing procedures
* Test and examine code, data pipelines, and system components written by others and analyze results, including three or more of the following:
* Data validation testing
* Functional testing
* Performance and load testing
* Usability testing
* Accessibility (Section 508) testing
* Support quality assurance for modern data platforms, including data ingestion pipelines, transformation workflows, analytics layers, and data-serving interfaces
* Validate data accuracy, completeness, consistency, and business logic across the full data lifecycle (ingest → transform → store → serve)
* Develop and execute test cases for ETL/ELT pipelines, batch and streaming workflows, and data integrations across cloud and on-prem environments
* Perform data reconciliation and source-to-target validation to ensure expected outcomes and correctness
* Participate in testing of analytics, dashboards, and reports to ensure metrics, calculations, and aggregations align with documented definitions
* Collaborate with data engineers and architects to understand data models, schemas, transformation logic, and schema evolution, ensuring changes do not introduce regressions or break downstream consumers
* Establish, enhance, and maintain automated testing tools, infrastructure, and scripts, including automation for functional, performance, security, and data validation testing
* Support automation of data tests, including regression tests, pipeline checks, and validation scripts integrated into CI/CD pipelines
* Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes in collaboration with Dev Sec Ops  teams
* Support testing of cloud-native platforms and services, including storage, compute, orchestration, containerized environments, and managed platform components
* Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
* Document the current ("as-is") state of systems, perform gap analyses, and produce artifacts that articulate options and recommendations
* Leverage virtualization and containerization technologies to optimize testing of software and data systems
* Work with cross-functional teams to continuously improve QA, Dev Sec Ops  processes, testing strategies, and tools for complex, data-intensive systems
* Provide regular status updates, test reporting, and knowledge sharing, including cross-training with Dev Ops and delivery team members
* Act as an individual contributor while mentoring more junior team members Qualifications Required
* Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
* BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
* 3 Years of

Experience with Git SCM providers such as Git Hub, Git Lab, Bitbucket
* 3 Years of

Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
* 3 Years of application Dev Sec Ops  

Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
* Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
* 3 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, Rest Assured, Postman
* Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD…