Systems Engineer (Test Tool Development and Automation)

KBR, Inc. • Springfield, VA

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About The Position

KBR’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security. KBR is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support government customers in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The Systems Engineer for Test Tool Development and Automation provides the expertise and experience of a Systems Engineer to establish and maintain a development environment, incorporating industry standards and best practices, to enable management of development epics and support an agile sprint development schedule. This individual will also provide support, maintenance, and continued updates of the business process applications in use by the customer, while pursuing epics to consolidate disparate business processes into a single, cloud based capability.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative science field.
• Over 8 years of relevant experience related to test automation engineering.
• Hands-on Linux experience.
• Experience with Agile Software Development.
• Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).
• Hands-on experience with Selenium automated test tool or similar products.
• Ability to plan and conduct security testing.
• Experience with systems engineering and configuration management processes.
• Experience with requirements development and management.
• Experience and/or familiarity with programming languages: Perl, Ruby, Python, and/or JavaScript.
• Experience and/or familiarity with database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, NOSQL, etc.
• Experience and/or familiarity with automated test tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Git, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Junit, JMeter, RSpec, and/or Cucumber.
• Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative science field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance (with poly preferred).

Responsibilities

• Apply industry standards and best practices for managing test tool and software development, including discrepancy tracking, reporting, and resolution.
• Utilize industry best practices for dev, test, staging and production environments to include Infrastructure as Code, Platform as a Service, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment tools.
• Design for failure architecture approach and containerization of services where possible.
• Establish and maintain an agile sprint development environment in support of customer web tools, and test tool development and maintenance.
• Manage and maintain content for the customer web presence on multiple security domains.
• Perform physical installation, customization, support, maintenance, license updates, configurations, and monitoring of business process applications.
• Develop a consolidated business process tool, integrating and replacing the current project management capabilities.
• Provide automated and manual test management capabilities to identify, standardize and import test objectives, procedures, plans, and documentation.
• Provide database design, development and maintenance for Test related web and tools projects.
• Attend and support customer planning events and technical meetings.

Benefits

• Diverse, inclusive environments.
• Opportunities for growth and development.
• Commitment to safety and sustainability.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees