Test Engineer, Junior

Ukpeagvik Inupiat Corporation - Stafford, VA

Full-time - Entry Level

Stafford, VA

501-1,000 employees

Construction of Buildings

About the position

The Junior Software Assurance Engineer at Bowhead is responsible for providing expert technical guidance and support throughout the software development lifecycle. This role focuses on evaluating operational feasibility, ensuring high-quality software development practices, and collaborating with teams to enhance system security and performance.

Responsibilities

• Advise teams on software architectures, design patterns, refactoring, security, and other best practices to build high-quality, robust systems.
• Conduct design and code reviews to conform with enterprise standards and provide improvement recommendations.
• Assist teams on strategies for automated testing, performance tuning, observability, and release management.
• Evaluate overall system quality, security, scalability, and readiness for production.
• Identify technology gaps, dependencies, risks early and provide options to address them.
• Share techniques for improving developer productivity, velocity, and engineering processes.
• Collaborate with leadership on policies, processes, team structures, and technology roadmaps.
• Remain updated on industry advancements and tools to provide relevant guidance.
• Demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Review system design, requirements, specifications, and standards.
• Conduct systems analysis and recommending changes in policies and procedures.
• Assure that the security best practices, design reviews, implementation, and software security concept development.
• Work closely with the system engineering team to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities, and risks in the system. Collaborate on a secure and robust solution covering software.
• Determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions.
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments, and clear code.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• BA/BS in a related discipline.
• Minimum of Two (2) years of professional technical experience.
• Experience in cloud software development and support is desired.
• Experience in software review, and documentation of cybersecurity compliance with DoD cybersecurity standards and requirements such as DoDI 5000.83, DoDI 5000.89, NIST SP 800-53 is desired.
• Experience in establishing and maturing software development practices is desired.
• Must have excellent verbal and written communications skills.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement plans
• Paid time off programs for eligible full-time employees
• 401(k) participation for eligible part-time employees