Staff / Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer (Clearance Required)

SciTec•Boulder, CO

About The Position

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace Company, is a non-traditional defense contractor supporting U.S. national security and defense through technologies for remote sensing and data exploitation. The Test Automation Engineer will design, build, and maintain a continuous deployment pipeline for an integrated infrastructure, platform, and software service stack in RHEL factory and test environments. The role also develops automated test cases to validate program releases and supports the integration of data sources, processing pipelines, and infrastructure components for complex mission requirements. Duties are performed in Aurora, Colorado, and Boulder, Colorado. U.S. citizenship is required because SciTec works exclusively on U.S. government contracts. A Secret security clearance is mandatory.

Requirements

At least 3 years of professional experience in test automation, software engineering, or systems engineering, with an 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 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.
A Secret security clearance is mandatory.
U.S. citizenship is required.
Demonstrated attention to detail.
Good verbal and written communication skills.

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.
Experience using Helm charts, ArgoCD, or Ansible Playbooks.

Responsibilities

Understand requirement decomposition and success criteria for feature releases, and support requirement verification events when needed.
Collaborate on integrating 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 documentation, reports, metrics, and traceability to test plans, procedures, requirement verification records, and program deliverable artifacts.
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 test coverage gaps 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 process.
Support the evolution to automated deployments and regression checkouts of the system 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.