Senior Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer

Clearance: TS/SCI, CI poly

Location: Herndon, VA

Job Type: Full‑time, 100% onsite

Target Salary Range
: $180,000 - $210,000

• This represents the potential salary range for this position depending on education level, years of experience and/or certifications in addition to other position‑specific requirements which may impact salary.

Seeking an experienced Test Engineer to join our SITE III Directorate Operations (DO) team supporting the U.S. Intelligence Community. This role supports web applications focused on CI/HUMINT for the worldwide IC.

• Standard Setting:
  Establish and uphold integration and testing standards.
• Test Strategy:
  Develop and implement test strategies to ensure system reliability.
• Stakeholder Coordination:
  Coordinate with various organizations for integration and testing activities.
• System Readiness:
  Prepare and assess readiness for system activities.
• Process Implementation:
  Ensure compliance with testing processes and track metrics.
• Discrepancy Management:
  Evaluate reports and validate fixes affecting systems.
• Test Procedures:
  Prepare system test procedures and user acceptance procedures following defined standards.
• Agile:
  Operate in a fast‑paced, Agile development environment as part of the scrum team.

• A Bachelor’s degree in an area applicable to the position with 10+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree in an area applicable to the position with 8 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.
• Active TS/SCI or SCI eligibility and active polygraph or ability to obtain a polygraph.
• Experienced tester, front end, back end, middle tier. Development environments include Java, Wildfly, Openshift, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Redmine, Artifactory, Postgres, some Cloud technologies (such as S3 and Elasti Cache), and Oracle.
• Knowledge of Agile processes is required.
• The candidate must have recent experience in some of these key areas and be willing/able to be in lead tester positions for Agile scrum teams.

• Extensive knowledge and experience with software testing Experience using Gitlab.
• Experience with Agile.
• Experience interacting with the end users and functional customer in support of sprint reviews, sprint demos and In‑Plant Acceptance testing is preferred but not required.