QA Automation Performance Engineer

Koniag Government Services, LLC•Washington, DC

9d•$148,000 - $175,000

About The Position

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is recruiting a QA Automation Performance Engineer to support its U.S. Army customer on a large-scale Army contracting systems modernization and automation program. The role engineers reusable automated test suites and performance evidence for releases, migration waves, and separate IL-5/IL-6 environments. It focuses on pipeline-integrated automation and load, stress, endurance, concurrency, recovery, and reliability testing rather than primarily manual functional testing. This is a contingent recruiting profile for a future new business opportunity; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing remain subject to final contract authorization. The engineer designs test architecture, integrates suites into approved CI/CD pipelines and release gates, evaluates and reuses Government-furnished scripts, and develops maintainable UI, workflow, API, integration, data, accessibility, smoke, and regression automation. The role also defines representative workloads and success criteria, runs tests independently within IL-5 and IL-6 boundaries, analyzes performance and reliability results, publishes evidence and recommendations, and coaches developers and QA staff. Work may occur remotely when authorized, at Government facilities, or in controlled office and data-center environments. Work involving classified information or SIPRNet must take place at a Government-approved secure location using authorized systems. The position generally supports Government business hours, with occasional release, incident-response, maintenance-window, or approved travel requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides an accommodation contact for applicants who need assistance applying. Koniag Government Services is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting Federal Government Agencies through enterprise solutions, professional services, and operational management.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
Five or more years of test automation or performance-engineering experience for enterprise web and API applications.
Hands-on experience with Selenium/WebDriver and one or more performance tools such as Locust, JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
Experience integrating automated tests with GitLab or comparable CI/CD platforms and analyzing performance and reliability results.
U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.
UI, workflow, API, and regression automation skills.
Load, stress, endurance, and recovery testing skills.
Selenium, FitNesse, Locust, and CI/CD integration skills.
Performance analysis and capacity evidence skills.
Test architecture, metrics, and coaching skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Appian, FitNesse for Appian, Appian Locust, Cypress, Postman, SoapUI, or accessibility automation.
Experience modeling high-volume, geographically distributed, fiscal year-end, or mission-critical user demand.
Performance-testing, cloud, Appian, or Agile testing certification.

Responsibilities

Design automated test architecture and integrate test suites into approved CI/CD pipelines and release gates.
Assess, repair, and reuse Government-furnished FitNesse/Selenium and Locust scripts before creating replacement automation.
Develop maintainable UI, workflow, API, integration, data, accessibility, smoke, and regression automation.
Create Locust or approved performance tests for load, stress, endurance, concurrency, soak, recovery, and fiscal year-end surge conditions.
Define representative workloads, user journeys, test data, thresholds, baselines, and pass/fail criteria with architecture and operations leads.
Execute tests independently within IL-5 and IL-6 using boundary-resident credentials, data, tools, and evidence repositories.
Analyze response time, throughput, error rates, queues, resource usage, memory behavior, scaling, and bottlenecks.
Publish raw results, trends, defects, and release recommendations to Government-visible dashboards and repositories.
Automate test evidence retention and traceability to requirements, changes, packages, environments, and releases.
Coach developers and QA staff on testability, automation standards, reliable selectors, data setup, and performance engineering.
Protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.