USAF - Software Test Automation Engineer

cFocus Software Incorporated•Linthicum Heights, MD

1d•Onsite

About The Position

cFocus Software is seeking a Software Test Automation Engineer to join our program supporting the United States Air Force (USAF). This position is on-site in Linthicum Heights, MD and requires an Active TS/SCI clearance. The role involves analyzing requirements, developing and maintaining automated tests, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the quality and security of enterprise applications and services.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI clearance
B.S. Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
Experience developing and maintaining automated tests for enterprise applications or services.
Proficiency in scripting or programming applicable to the assigned test automation environment.
Experience with functional, integration, regression, and API testing and repeatable test execution.
Ability to integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines and manage versioned test artifacts.
Ability to interpret requirements, define expected results, and maintain requirements-to-test traceability.
Experience investigating failures, documenting defects, verifying fixes, and evaluating test coverage.
Understanding of secure software delivery, configuration control, authorized test data, and environment management.

Responsibilities

Analyze approved requirements, technical designs, and acceptance criteria to define test scenarios, expected results, and automation priorities.
Develop and maintain automated functional, integration, regression, and smoke tests for assigned applications and services.
Create reusable test scripts, libraries, and execution workflows using approved tools and languages.
Integrate automated tests into Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and provide results supporting release readiness decisions.
Develop and execute tests for Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), data-sharing interfaces, and approved cloud/on-premises integrations.
Validate data exchange, error handling, and application behavior under approved interface requirements and applicable interagency agreements.
Coordinate repeatable test environments and authorized test data with developers, administrators, and cybersecurity teams; maintain alignment with approved configurations.
Track test artifacts and configurations in version control and approved repositories; coordinate Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code support where applicable.
Execute tests, investigate failures, document reproducible defects, and coordinate triage with development teams. Retest fixes and assess regression impacts.
Maintain lifecycle traceability among requirements, test cases, results, defects, changes, and releases.
Support automated cybersecurity controls and pipeline guardrails; coordinate vulnerability scanning and remediation verification with cybersecurity personnel.
Validate application configurations and deployment changes against approved baselines; support testing before Government review and authorized production deployment.
Prepare test plans, procedures, execution reports, defect summaries, and release evidence. Supply technical records supporting RMF, ATO, and continuous ATO activities.
Evaluate coverage and automation reliability; improve maintainability and investigate inconsistent results.
Research and test approved opportunities for agentic AI or other AI capabilities in CI/CD; recommend options and support integration following Government approval.
Support incident investigation and corrective-action validation by supplying test results, application logs, and reproduction scenarios as directed.