Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer

bcore•Herndon, VA

19h

About The Position

Bcore is hiring a Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer for its Insight Solutions division in Herndon, Virginia. The role supports customer missions by serving 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 role works directly with government customers and the cloud development team to plan and execute testing, identify and track defects through resolution, lead user acceptance testing, and ensure the product is usable, documented, and effective for mission users. The position also validates geospatial data and REST APIs, develops user and release documentation, delivers end-user training, and supports documentation for accreditation, audits, and release approvals. An active TS/SCI clearance with CI poly is required to start.

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, and writing test plans, cases, and reports from requirements or user stories.
Proficiency with defect/test management tools such as Jira, Xray, Zephyr, or TestRail, and REST API testing using 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/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/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/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

Serve as the primary test and quality lead for a cloud-based geospatial data lake and its ingestion pipelines, data services/APIs, search interfaces, and GIS client integrations.
Work with government customers and the cloud development team to plan and execute testing, identify defects, lead user acceptance testing, and ensure the product is usable, documented, and effective for mission users.
Develop and execute test strategies, plans, cases, and traceability matrices mapped to requirements or user stories across ingestion, transformation, storage, API, and GIS client layers.
Identify, reproduce, document, and triage defects with developers and government stakeholders; track defects through resolution, verify fixes, and report defect trends and release readiness.
Plan, coordinate, and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) events with government customers, representing end-user needs within the development team.
Validate geospatial data quality, including geometry validity, coordinate reference systems/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.