Test Engineer (Senior)

CACI International • Ashburn, VA

21d • $103,800 - $218,100

About The Position

CACI is seeking a Senior Test Engineer for its Global Mission Operations Support (GMOS) contract supporting the Department of State. The role supports national security through advanced IT solutions and contributes to modernizing and maintaining applications and infrastructure using an integrated IT Service Management approach. The position provides technical leadership for testing across global CA IT infrastructure supporting more than 40,000 users, critical systems, cloud migration efforts, and network engineering upgrades.

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.
• Strong leadership abilities and demonstrated experience planning and leading major testing initiatives, serving 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 infrastructure testing for more than 300 geographically distributed facilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and execution of comprehensive software test plans across global CA IT infrastructure supporting more than 40,000 users.
• Test critical systems to ensure continued operation if physical infrastructure or hosting environments are lost.
• Validate infrastructure designs, including redundant synchronized standby infrastructure for active/active and active/passive operations.
• Lead testing for network engineering upgrades supporting interoperability with more than 42 external partner agencies and government systems.
• Test cloud migration efforts for FedRAMP compliance and data sovereignty requirements.
• Regularly test failover and Disaster Recovery procedures, validating Recovery Time Objectives and Recovery Point Objectives for critical systems.
• Validate scalability requirements and future growth projections using capacity-planning data and performance analysis.
• Use DevSecOps tooling, including Ansible, Terraform, and SonarQube, and construct CI/CD pipelines that 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 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.
• Healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

What This Job Offers

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