Test Engineer, Junior

Bowhead - Stafford, VA

Full-time - Entry Level

Stafford, VA

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

Bowhead is seeking a Junior Software Assurance Engineer to provide expert technical guidance and support throughout the software development lifecycle. This role focuses on evaluating operational feasibility, ensuring high-quality software development, and implementing best practices in security and system design.

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 recommend changes in policies and procedures.
• Assure that the security best practices, design reviews, implementation, and software security concept development are followed.
• Work closely with the system engineering team to identify potential threats, vulnerabilities, and risks in the system.

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.