Test Engineer

Job Title:

Test Engineer

Job Category:
Engineering

Time Type:
Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type:
Regular

Percentage of

Travel Required:

Up to 10%

Type of Travel:
Local

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* The Opportunity:

Join our team as a Test Engineer and play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and compliance of complex hardware/software systems. Your expertise will drive the development and execution of comprehensive test strategies, optimizing testability and delivering reliable, repeatable verification. If you're motivated by measurable outcomes and the challenge of delivering high-quality systems, we want to meet you.

Responsibilities:

As a Test Engineer, you will lead the test strategy for complex products, selecting the right mix of manual and automated methods to demonstrate compliance with specifications and standards. You will design for testability and recommend product and interface characteristics that enable reliable, repeatable verification. Partnering with systems, software, and product teams, you will translate customer and contractual needs into risk-based test plans, procedures, environments, and schedules that balance technical scope, cost, and timelines.

You will execute and refine the plan by instrumenting environments, analyzing results, and delivering clear readiness and risk reports to drive release and authorization decisions.

* Establish and maintain quality and evaluation processes for hardware, software, and documentation aligned to program requirements.

* Define and track quality metrics; report status, trends, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

* Identify and mitigate risks related to software quality and testing processes.

* Create risk-based test strategies and plans and oversee execution across unit, integration, system, and user acceptance levels.

* Provision and maintain test environments and simulators with controlled datasets to ensure deterministic, repeatable results.

* Design detailed test procedures for system, functional, regression, performance, load, installation, security, interoperability, stress, and boundary conditions.

* Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and customer acceptance; deliver test reports and communicate results, readiness, and risks for release decisions.

* Stay current with industry best practices in software testing and incorporate improvements into team workflows.

* Collaborate with stakeholders to align requirements and define test strategies and validation components, including automation candidates.

* Support Government authorization processes, including test planning, control validation, evidence collection, and system definition approvals.

* Participate in Change or Configuration Change Board (CCB) and Engineering Review Board (ERB) activities, providing test impact analyses, verification plans, and readiness evidence for changes, reviews, and release decisions.

Qualifications:

Required:

* BA/BS degree in computer science, software engineering, information management, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university.

* Minimum of five (5) years of related work experience.

* Strong knowledge of quality assurance principles, methodologies, and standards.

* Experience identifying, assessing, and mitigating software quality risks across the lifecycle.

* Experience creating and executing risk-based test strategies.

* Experience provisioning and maintaining test environments.

* Experience acquiring client requirements and resolving workflow problems through automation optimization.

* Excellent communication skills, with the ability to convey complex test results and technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

* Experience with workload/project management tools (e.g., Jira).

* Experience with Git-based version control and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines (e.g., Git Hub or Git Lab) to support automated build, test, and verification activities.

* Proficiency with scripting tools (e.g., Python, Power Shell) and containerization/orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) to support integration and testing.

* Familiarity with the software life cycle, including requirements, design, development, integration, testing, and deployment.

* Experience maintaining requirements-to-test traceability and managing compliance evidence.

* Must be a US citizen with an active Top Secret/SCI DoD Security clearance with polygraph.

Desired:

* Certifications preferred but not required:
Software testing (ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL), Certified Tester Advanced Level (CTAL)), Agile delivery (Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Professional Scrum Developer (PSD), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)), and security (CompTIA Security+, (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) or Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP)).

* Experience applying security and compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO/IEC, NIST) and translating controls into system requirements, design constraints, and verification…