Staff / Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer
About The Position
SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace Company, is seeking a 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 includes 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. Duties are performed in Aurora, Colorado, and Boulder, Colorado. SciTec is a non-traditional defense contractor delivering advanced technologies for U.S. National Security and Defense. Its work supports Department of Defense customers in missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability. Because SciTec works exclusively on U.S. government contracts requiring U.S. citizenship, all employees must be U.S. citizens.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of professional experience in test automation, software engineering, or systems engineering, emphasizing system delivery and acceptance.
- Strong experience developing automated tests using Python and JavaScript.
- Strong experience with deployment pipelines and integrating 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.
- Demonstrated attention to detail.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Nice To Haves
- Bachelor's degree in a STEM or technical-related discipline.
- Experience supporting infrastructure or platform teams (IaaS, PaaS, SRE, or OpenShift).
- Experience testing containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift).
- Familiarity with networking, storage, or system-level testing.
- Experience working in DevSecOps environments.
- Secret Security clearance.
- Experience using Helm charts, ArgoCD, and Ansible Playbooks.
Responsibilities
- Understand requirement decomposition as applicable to feature-release success criteria and, at times, support requirement verification events.
- 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.
- Incorporate documentation and traceability to test plans, procedures, and requirement verification records; maintain test documentation, reports, and metrics.
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test procedures and test cases, with traceability to program deliverable artifacts.
- 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 process.
- Support the evolution to 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.
- 100% 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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