Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer

Bridge Core (BCore)•Herndon, VA

2d•$180,000 - $225,000

About The Position

Bcore is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer to support customer missions in Herndon, Virginia, within its Insight Solutions division. The division delivers intelligence analysis, advanced data science, and strategic decision support. The role serves as the primary test and quality lead for a cloud-based geospatial data lake and its components, including ingestion pipelines, data services and APIs, search interfaces, and GIS client integrations. The engineer works with government customers and the cloud development team to plan and execute testing, track defects through resolution, lead user acceptance testing, and ensure the product is usable, documented, and effective for mission users.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance with CI poly required to start.
Hands-on experience planning and executing integration, end-to-end, regression, and UAT testing; writing test plans, cases, and reports from requirements or user stories.
Proficiency with defect and test management tools such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, or TestRail, and REST API testing tools such as Postman, curl, or scripted tests.
Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and back-end verification.
GIS fundamentals, including coordinate reference systems, projections, datums, vector and raster data models, and common formats such as GeoJSON and Shapefile.
Experience with desktop GIS, such as Esri ArcGIS Pro and/or QGIS.
Familiarity with AWS-hosted applications and services, including Lambda, ECS, SQS/SNS, and Aurora PostgreSQL, sufficient to isolate failures.
Familiarity with multi-environment release pipelines and Git.
Ability to work directly with government and end-user customers, run test events, and communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences.
Strong technical writing skills.
Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, GIS, Geography, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Typically 3+ years of software testing or QA experience, including data-intensive or geospatial systems.

Nice To Haves

Test automation experience with Python/pytest, Selenium, Playwright, or similar.
PostGIS and spatial SQL experience.
Performance or load testing experience with JMeter, Locust, k6, or similar.
Experience supporting software in DoD/IC accreditation environments, including RMF or ATO documentation.
Certifications such as ISTQB Foundation or Advanced, CSTE, AWS Cloud Practitioner, or an Esri technical certification.
DoD 8140 baseline certification, such as CompTIA Security+, if the role requires privileged system access.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute test strategies, plans, cases, and traceability matrices mapped to requirements and user stories across ingestion, transformation, storage, API, and GIS client layers.
Identify, reproduce, document, and triage defects with developers and government stakeholders; track defects to resolution, verify fixes, and report defect trends and release readiness.
Plan, coordinate, and lead User Acceptance Testing events with government customers, representing end-user needs within the development team.
Validate geospatial data quality, including geometry validity, coordinate reference systems and projections, attribute completeness, and spatial query accuracy.
Test REST APIs and data services for correctness, error handling, security controls, and performance.
Build and maintain data dictionaries, user guides, release notes, and test reports.
Design and deliver end-user training.
Support documentation required for accreditation, audits, and release approvals.