Test Engineer

J5 Consulting•Cedar View, VA

30d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sponsor’s office is architecting and creating a secure data ecosystem that is compatible and synchronized with the overall Sponsor’s data strategy and broader mission capabilities. These solutions and capabilities include a platform to conduct enterprise search, digital forensics, and data analytics. The Sponsor fuses modern, data-centric tradecraft and capabilities with other components in pursuit of extracting maximum value from existing data.

Requirements

Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
Demonstrated experience working effectively in high-performing, cross-functional teams with multiple concurrent projects.
Demonstrated experience working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand needs, and translate them into technical solutions with minimal oversight.
Demonstrated experience in self-directed work with a strong ownership mentality and commitment to code quality, testing, and documentation.
Demonstrated experience context-switching between projects and systems as priorities demand.
Demonstrated experience testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 1–2 major services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or CloudFront).
Demonstrated experience with strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing.
Demonstrated experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g., Python + pytest, Java + JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript/TypeScript + Playwright/Cypress/Selenium).
Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
Demonstrated experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum).
Demonstrated experience with strong defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes.
US Citizenship required.
Active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph required.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis).
Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS or CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes.
Demonstrated experience with container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads.
Demonstrated experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; ability to validate status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling.
Demonstrated experience with logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g., CloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK).
Demonstrated performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS.
Demonstrated experience with test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or ephemeral environments).
Demonstrated AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, SysOps Associate, or DevOps Engineer).
Demonstrated experience in complex, high security, regulated environments.
Demonstrated experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

Testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 1–2 major services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or CloudFront).
Applying strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing.
Writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
Performing defect isolation and debugging; collaborating with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes.
Testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis).
Validating deployments or configuration changes with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS or CDK).
Testing containerized workloads on container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes).
Testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; validating status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling.
Utilizing logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g., CloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK).
Conducting performance and reliability testing (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS.
Managing test data in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or ephemeral environments).
Communicating effectively in writing and verbally with both technical and non-technical audiences.