Test Engineer (Senior)

CACI • Ashburn, VA

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About The Position

CACI is seeking a Senior Test Engineer for the Global Mission Operations Support (GMOS) contract supporting the Department of State. The role supports national security through advanced IT solutions and helps modernize and maintain applications and infrastructure using an integrated IT Service Management approach. The engineer will guide a high-performing team delivering IT support across a global environment serving more than 40,000 users.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience in related fields such as test engineering, quality assurance, software testing, infrastructure testing, or DevOps engineering; equivalencies are considered.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Proven experience leading comprehensive test planning and execution for large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure supporting thousands of users.
• Demonstrated expertise in disaster recovery testing, failover validation, high-availability testing, and FedRAMP compliance testing.
• Strong proficiency with DevSecOps tools and advanced CI/CD pipeline development, particularly Ansible, Terraform, and automated testing frameworks.
• Proven leadership experience planning and leading major testing initiatives, functioning as a subject matter expert, and supervising quality assurance teams.

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience supporting federal agencies, especially the Department of State.
• Professional certifications such as ISTQB Advanced Level, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional, or Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
• Experience with cloud migration testing, FedRAMP compliance validation, and interoperability testing with external partner agencies.
• Knowledge of active/active and active/passive architectures, capacity planning validation, and testing infrastructure for 300+ geographically distributed facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of comprehensive software test plans across global CA IT infrastructure supporting 40,000+ users.
• Test critical systems to ensure continued operation in the event of loss of physical infrastructure or hosting environments.
• Validate infrastructure designs, including redundant synchronized standby infrastructure supporting active/active and active/passive operations.
• Lead testing of network engineering upgrades supporting interoperability with 42+ external partner agencies and government systems.
• Test cloud migration efforts, including FedRAMP compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
• Regularly test failover and disaster recovery procedures, validating Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) for critical systems.
• Validate scalability requirements and future growth projections using capacity planning data and performance analysis.
• Use DevSecOps tooling such as Ansible, Terraform, and SonarQube to construct advanced CI/CD pipelines and automate continuous build, testing, security validation, and results analysis.
• Develop test strategies, test frameworks, and quality assurance standards for enterprise infrastructure and application testing.
• Serve as a technical expert across multiple project assignments, plan and lead major testing initiatives, mentor junior test engineers, and supervise quality assurance teams.

Benefits

• Flexible time off benefit.
• Learning resources and learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits.
• Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

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