Software Engineer; Senior

Torch Technologies

Thank you for your interest in employment with Torch Technologies. We are a 100% employee-owned, Certified Great Place To Work and named Best Places to Work in Huntsville/Madison County, headquartered in Huntsville, AL. Our team provides superior research, development, and engineering services to the Federal Government and Department of War. As one of the nation’s top 100 defense companies, the services we provide directly support the men and women who serve our country.

Our corporate mission sums up the pride our employee-owners take in the work we do: "Lighting the Pathway of Freedom". And, as a Certified Evergreen ESOP, we have made the commitment to grow and sustain our company for the next 100 years! Come grow with us!

Torch Technologies is seeking a Software Engineer (Senior) with Test Automation Experience to join a team to support the testing of systems assigned to the Air Force Human Resources Systems Division (HRSD). The person that fills this position will apply their software engineering skills to test automation, tool engineering, and quality verification across the Military Personnel Data System (MilPDS) and broader legacy applications within the HRSD.

The ideal candidate will possess programming skills—enabling them to write maintainable automation code for use in test workflows, executing manual testing, support pipeline integration, and support agentic testing workflows using enterprise automation suites such as UiPath and Open Text UFT One. This position supports the AFLCMC/GB Business and Enterprise Systems Directorate (BES)/GBH Human Resources Systems Division
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This position requires a highly motivated individual. The Software Engineer (Senior) will perform work that applies a broad theoretical and practical knowledge of Agile-based software engineering with responsibilities such as, but not limited to:

• Preparing/creating, reviewing, and analyzing all types of documentation for:
  Planning, Requirements, Design, Coding, Support, and Test.
• Source code, configuration files and engineering resolution support.
• Determining operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, and code comments.
• Determining and designing system specifications, and standards, and programming/coding and installing solutions.
• Improving operations by conducting systems and process analysis plus recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Advising (licensed) software procurements by researching, analyzing, comparing, and documenting results of vendors and products, which may include installation, configuration and testing (of products).
• Providing information and recommendations by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing development and service-related issues;
• Developing software solutions by studying requirements/user stories, user/system/data needs, conferring with users, studying systems flow, data usage, and work processes, investigating problem areas, and following an Agile software development lifecycle.
• Evaluating software technologies such as containerization and the use of Kubernetes, infrastructure as code, configuration as code, micro services, standard application program interfaces (API), continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD), and maximizing the automation of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Ensuring the rigorous application of information security/cybersecurity policies, principles, and practices to the delivery of application software services.
• Practical software engineering and scripting experience with proven proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Java, VBScript,…