QA Automation Performance Engineer

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company ,

is seeking a QA Automation Performance Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support TGS in supporting our government customer in the DC Metro area. This position is for a Future New Business Opportunity. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, Koniag Government Services (KGS) is seeking qualified candidates for this role supporting our U.S. Army customer on a large-scale Army contracting systems modernization and automation program. Engineers reusable automated test suites and performance evidence for releases, migration waves, and separate IL-5/IL-6 environments. This role focuses on pipeline-integrated automation, load, stress, endurance, concurrency, recovery, and reliability rather than primarily manual functional testing.

This is a contingent recruiting profile; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing remain subject to final contract authorization.

• Design the automated test architecture and integrate test suites into approved CI/CD pipelines and release gates.
• Assess, repair, and reuse Government-furnished Fit Nesse/Selenium and Locust scripts before creating replacement automation.
• Develop maintainable UI, workflow, API, integration, data, accessibility, smoke, and regression automation.
• Create Locust or approved performance tests for load, stress, endurance, concurrency, soak, recovery, and fiscal year-end surge conditions.
• Define representative workloads, user journeys, test data, thresholds, baselines, and pass/fail criteria with architecture and operations leads.
• Execute tests independently within IL-5 and IL-6 using boundary-resident credentials, data, tools, and evidence repositories.
• Analyze response time, throughput, error rates, queues, resource usage, memory behavior, scaling, and bottlenecks.
• Publish raw results, trends, defects, and release recommendations to Government-visible dashboards and repositories.
• Automate test evidence retention and traceability to requirements, changes, packages, environments, and releases.
• Coach developers and QA staff on testability, automation standards, reliable selectors, data setup, and performance engineering.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• Additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
• Five or more years of test automation or performance-engineering experience for enterprise web and API applications.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium/Web Driver and one or more performance tools such as Locust, JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
• Experience integrating automated tests with Git Lab or comparable CI/CD platforms and analyzing performance and reliability results.
• U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
• Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
• Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.

• Experience with Appian, Fit Nesse for Appian, Appian Locust, Cypress, Postman, SoapUI, or accessibility automation.
• Experience modeling high-volume, geographically distributed, fiscal year-end, or mission-critical user demand.
• Performance-testing, cloud, Appian, or Agile testing certification.

• UI, workflow, API, and regression automation.
• Load, stress, endurance, and recovery testing.
• Selenium, Fit Nesse, Locust, and CI/CD integration.
• Performance analysis and capacity evidence.
• Test architecture, metrics, and coaching.

Work may occur remotely when authorized, at Government facilities, or in controlled office and data-center environments. Work involving classified information or SIPRNet will be performed at a Government-approved secure location using authorized systems. The role generally supports Government business hours, with occasional release, incident-response,…