Systems Engineer - Test Automation Architect

CACI International•Sterling, VA

23h•Hybrid

About The Position

CACI is currently looking for an experienced, highly skilled, and driven Systems Integration & Automated Test Engineer to perform verification and validation of multiple integrated software applications for a national customer in the Mission Management domain. You’ll join our SHIV integration test team located in Sterling, VA and the Denver Tech Center, CO. The ideal candidate will have broad experience in Full Lifecycle Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) of mission software applications and the ability to assess requirements and derive acceptance criteria. As a self-starter using that knowledge, you will design automated end-to-end (E2E) mission test strategies that satisfy real-world user stories. As a member of the SHIV team, you will learn and analyze several third-party software applications that deploy new features on an agile basis, and you will work closely with the SHIV team’s software developers to perform troubleshooting when implemented tests find software bugs, defects or changes. Join this passionate team of systems engineers and software developers as we help our customer transition from heavily manual testing practices to automated integration tests in a constantly changing agile environment.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with polygraph (or willingness to obtain a polygraph)
BA/BS in STEM field or related experience
Expertise in the Mission Management domain and willing to learn more
7+ years of systems engineering experience with planning and scheduling software
Understanding of federal government operational environments
A self-starter and self-directed with a user-centric mindset when developing testing of processes across multiple software applications
Experience in Full Lifecycle Systems Engineering and Integration and end-to-end multi-segment testing
Ability to act as a bridge between software developers and project stakeholders.
Ability to communicate effectively and collaboratively in a team environment
The candidate must exhibit professionalism, flexibility, and tolerance to change

Nice To Haves

Experience in agile software development, systems integration and verification skills
Experience with crafting acceptance criteria for functional requirements
Experience with JIRA and Confluence for task organization and tracking
Familiarity with test automation frameworks, SQL for data verification, and API testing tools, coding experience can be helpful but is not required

Responsibilities

Partner with the applications’ engineers to learn and understand their applications, interconnections, mission threads, functional requirements, and dependencies
Trace legacy and new functional requirements to third-party apps in development
Write testable and understandable acceptance criteria for the automated tests
Track the completion dates for an application’s internal and external dependencies
Develop E2E autonomous systems testing strategies using real-world user scenarios and realistic, dynamic test data in an agile-based test environment
Design scripts for automated tests that exercise UI-based and API-based functionality and satisfy the test’s acceptance criteria
Collaborate with developers to implement test scripts for automation that verify functional requirements across multiple cloud-based applications
Maintain and enhance existing tests to exercise newly deployed and/or updated software features developed by third-party agile programs