Staff / Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer

SciTec • Boulder, CO

2d

About The Position

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace Company, is seeking a Staff / Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain a continuous deployment pipeline for an integrated infrastructure, platform, and software service stack in RHEL factory and test environments. The pipeline uses Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, ArgoCD, and Ansible Playbooks. The role also develops automated test cases to validate program releases and supports integration of data sources, processing pipelines, and infrastructure components for complex mission requirements. Work is performed in Aurora, Colorado, and Boulder, Colorado.

The engineer will develop and maintain automated test procedures and cases, establish traceability to program deliverables, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for release builds, checkouts, and feature validation. The role supports regression, performance, and integration testing, analyzes results and troubleshoots failures, and works with engineering teams to resolve issues. The position also contributes to requirements verification, test documentation, and the evolution toward automated deployments and regression checkouts within a year.

SciTec supports U.S. government contracts that require all employees to be U.S. citizens; applicants who do not meet this requirement will not be considered.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of professional experience in test automation, software engineering, or systems engineering, with emphasis on system delivery and acceptance.
• Strong experience developing automated tests using Python and JavaScript.
• Strong experience with deployment pipelines and integration with automated tests.
• Experience working in Linux environments.
• Experience with GitLab CI and version control.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including testability and modular design.
• Knowledge of systems engineering and IV&V engineering principles and work products for software programs.
• Demonstrated attention to detail.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship is required because the work supports U.S. government contracts.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM or technical-related discipline.
• Experience supporting infrastructure or platform teams, including IaaS, PaaS, SRE, or OpenShift.
• Experience testing containerized systems such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.
• Familiarity with networking, storage, or system-level testing.
• Experience working in DevSecOps environments.
• Active Secret security clearance.
• Experience using Helm charts, ArgoCD, and Ansible Playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Understand requirement decomposition in relation to feature-release success criteria and support requirement verification events when needed.
• Collaborate on integration of internal and external tools and data sources, legacy systems, and modernized platforms.
• Define and help manage data flows to ensure seamless data exchange.
• Maintain test plans, procedures, requirement-verification records, documentation, reports, and metrics, including traceability to program deliverables.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test procedures and test cases.
• Develop automated tests across infrastructure and platform services, APIs and microservices, data pipelines and messaging systems, and user-facing applications.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and deployment, release builds, checkouts, and new-feature validation.
• Collaborate with the IVT lead, development leads, and security engineers to ensure test coverage.
• Identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements to increase reliability and reduce risk.
• Support regression, performance, and integration testing.
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and work with engineers to resolve issues within established processes.
• Support evolution toward automated deployments and system regression checkouts within a year.
• Promote best practices for test automation, maintainability, and reliability.
• Participate in Agile development processes and planning activities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 4% Safe Harbor 401(k) match.
• Company-paid HSA medical insurance, with a choice of two buy-up options.
• 80% company-paid dental insurance.
• 100% company-paid vision insurance.
• 100% company-paid life insurance.
• 100% company-paid long-term disability insurance.
• Short-term disability insurance.
• Annual profit-sharing plan.
• Discretionary performance bonus.
• Paid parental leave.
• Generous paid time off, including holiday, vacation, and sick pay.
• Flexible work hours.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed