Test Engineer (Top Secret Clearance Required)

North Point Technology•Saint Louis, MO

14h

About The Position

North Point Technology is seeking a Test Engineer to provide Agile DevOps support for mission-critical systems. This role requires a Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph. The position involves working within a High Performance Computing and mission software program, contributing to the design, development, and execution of comprehensive test strategies across cloud-based environments.

Requirements

DevOps practices applied to develop, maintain, and continuously improve test automation assets, including configuration control, traceability, and repeatability.
Experience with Jira and Confluence used to manage requirements, tasks, test artifacts, and project documentation.
Experience with software development, testing, and integration activities within cloud development environments.
SAFe Agile participation including daily standups, sprint reviews, and functional testing.
Collaboration with Product Owners, Software Developers, and QA Teams to develop test approaches with emphasis on automation of regression testing.
Creation, maintenance, and evaluation of automated test suites to validate application functionality and improve test coverage.
Execution and documentation of testing activities for Jira-tracked development efforts.
Analysis of testing results with actionable feedback provided to development teams.
Testing within commercial cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and OpenShift with DevOps tooling.
Testing of both back-end and front-end application processes.
Scripting with Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
CI Pipeline test execution including JEST, Cypress, and/or Playwright.
Experience with software performance testing practices.
Creation, authoring, execution, and documentation of test cases and result sets in an Agile cadence.

Nice To Haves

Tracking test failures back to code changes that introduced defects.
Reviewing code check-ins to assess the impact of changes on system functionality and potential bugs.
Software development or integration experience in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web Services) or virtualization environment.
Experience with unit testing, continuous integration tools, and Git version control.
SQL queries and database analysis techniques to validate application data, investigate defects, and ensure data integrity.
Experience with DoD Aeronautical Datasets.
Experience with AWS CloudFormation templates.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Product Owners, Development Teams, Architects, and QA Managers to design, develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test strategies that support mission objectives and product requirements.
Practice a SAFe Agile workflow by participating in daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
Review and implement test requirements, support test case execution, and contribute to release validation activities.
Apply testing methodologies and troubleshooting experience to identify defects.
Maintain test automation frameworks.
Participate in test plan reviews.
Document test results and quality metrics.
Ensure overall system code coverage remains above 80%.
Support software quality, performance, and continuous improvement through rigorous testing practices.