Test Engineer

Test Engineer

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

Anticipated Posting End: 12/31/2024

The Opportunity:

CACI is seeking a Test Engineer to support our Makalu contract. If you are interested and passionate about working as part of a modern, fast-paced agile software development team, then this opportunity is for you!

On team Makalu, testing is an integral part of the development team. A test automation  engineer will lead the effort to set up automated testing of our products. As a new effort, the candidate should be experienced at using test automation tools. Test automation engineer is encouraged to work as part of the development team to influence system architecture, feature design, and security integration as it pertains to testability and meeting acceptance criteria.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute automated tests to be used in regression, acceptance, and useability testing to help support continuous software delivery. Continually improve test processes and practices based on inspection/adaptation of previous iterations.
• Execute/analyze test cases and communicate results.
• Report bugs/deficiencies/defects using a defect management system such as JIRA
• Troubleshoot and verify bugs/deficiencies and errors reported.
• Become a vital part of the agile Scrum team and participate in requirements review/story elaborations, and testing activities to deliver high quality products.
• Translate high-level business requirements into test scenarios
• Work with software developers and domain experts in designing, performing, and improving verification tests, to include performance and stress testing.
• Work collaboratively and effectively in a very agile, fast paced environment.
• Contribute towards predictable delivery of quality software releases.
• Proactively research, recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing automation.
• Ensure that all tests are executed and give regular feedback to the team lead on the status of quality.
• Be a creative thinker who can quickly identify and test for functional “edge cases” outside of expected functionality.
• Have the drive to become an expert in:
  • UX Testing
  • UI Testing
  • Integration testing of APIs
  • Performance and scalability testing
  • Security Penetration Testing
  • Automated Test maintenance

Qualifications:

Required: 

• An active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required
• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, or related field
• 5+ years of relevant Testing experience (or 7+ years without related degree)
• Familiarity working in Linux Operating Systems
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Current Security+ and/or CISSP Certification. If candidate is not certified, must commit to obtaining certification within 3 months of start date.
• Experience with API test tools (Postman, JMeter, Swagger, etc.)
• Experience with UI test tools (Cypress, Selenium, Jest, etc.)

Desired:

• Experience with DevOps concepts including Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Behavior and/or Test Driven Development (BDD / TDD).
• Understanding of microservices architectures, containerization, and cloud technologies.
• Ability to leverage scripting languages to support testing
• Experience with identity management, access, and authorization solutions (PKI, LDAP).
• Experience with web debuggers (e.g., Firefox debugger, Chrome Developer tools, etc.)
• Experience monitoring network activity and network traffic redirection. Familiarity with proxy implementations
• Demonstrated experience with agile development practices, including Agile Scrum methodology.
• Experience testing for performance, reliability, scalability and security.
• Knowledge of Intelligence Community (IC) processes, policies and guidance.
• Experience with automated front end testing tools.

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What You Can Expect:

 

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purp