Test Engineer

Altamira Technologies Corp. • Annapolis Junction, MD

8d • $160,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities worldwide by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies. We are Looking for an experienced Automated Test Engineer to join our team. In this role you will support testing activities as a member of the test, development and deployment team. You will be supporting key activities in defense of emerging threats in the cybersecurity domain and work as part of a team that develops and tailors’ capabilities with the common goal to prevent and eradicate threats to critical U.S. systems. TS/SCI/FS Poly clearance only is required for this position.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (BS) in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum Seven (7) years’ experience as a test engineer in programs of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Four (4) years of additional test engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• A master’s degree may be substituted for two (2) years of experience
• Must have a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Seven (7+) years’ experience creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
• 5+ years of experience applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automated test scripts to validate new features, custom applications, configuration changes, and system upgrades.
• Experience managing regression testing including comprehensive coverage of all software/system patches, upgrades, releases.
• Experience writing/maintaining high-quality documentation for test plans, automation standards, and execution procedures.
• Experience working within cloud infrastructure in classified AWS environment.
• Ability to work version control systems (e.g. SVN, GIT), and experience with JIRA ticketing tool, and understanding of basic CM principles.
• Strong written and verbal communications with experience working as part of an Agile Development Team
• U.S. Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph
• Applicant must have a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Seven (7+) years’ experience creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
• 5+ years of experience applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.

Nice To Haves

• Scripting experience/Python is desired

Responsibilities

• Work to develop and execute automated test and evaluation plans for custom software as a part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Coordinate and integrate Evaluation and Testing tasks and products
• Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving test and evaluation (T&E) status to help manage program risk: develop alternative courses of action, work arounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones
• Creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
• Applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automated test scripts to validate new features, custom applications, configuration changes, and system upgrades.
• Managing regression testing including comprehensive coverage of all software/system patches, upgrades, releases.
• Writing/maintaining high-quality documentation for test plans, automation standards, and execution procedures.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior