Senior Test Engineer

ANSER - Springfield, VA

- Senior

Springfield, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Senior-level Test Systems Engineers assist in leading Application, System and Integration Testing teams performing test and evaluation across the National System of Geospatial-intelligence (NSG), Allied System of Geospatial-intelligence (ASG) and Federal Agencies to ensure timely and accurate GEOINT. Duties may include guiding Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers, performing testing of applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) in DevOps pipelines, conducting independent integration testing on system software and hardware, planning and executing manual tests and automated test scripts, and supporting technical investigations for defects discovered during test activities.

Responsibilities

• Guide Mid-level and Junior-level system engineers performing test and evaluation across NSG, ASG, and Federal Agencies.
• Perform testing of applications and APIs in DevOps pipelines utilizing quality assurance measures established by the government and industry best practices.
• Conduct independent integration testing on system software and hardware to determine compliance with specified requirements.
• Plan and execute manual tests and automated test scripts using scripting and programming languages.
• Support technical investigations for defects discovered during test activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program, or related equivalent additional experience.
• Senior-level systems integration experience working in government or industry integrating large complex System of Systems or Service Oriented Architecture environments.
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools.
• Experience with traditional, Agile, and DevOps development practices and associated testing strategies.

Nice-to-haves

• Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Engineering Management, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree program.
• Experience with JMeter, Jenkins, Docker, Postman, Swagger, Nexus, Apigee or GitHub/GitLab, Java, Bash, Curl, XML, JSON, SQL, Python, Javascript, and AWS and C2S.
• Working knowledge of Model-Based Systems Engineering, processes, tools and languages.
• Working knowledge of Software Development Frameworks.
• Previous NGA and/or NSG/ASG program/project work experience.
• Previous IC or DoD program/project work experience.