Test Engineer II

Overview

VAE, Inc. is a full service IT Infrastructure Solutions Company focused on building, securing and supporting our clients' mission critical enterprises. We provide a distinctive array of design, integration and implementation services as well as fully managed service offerings. VAE is at the forefront of leveraging multi‑tenant capable technologies and shared IT services to create secure, reliable and cost‑effective end‑to‑end services and solutions.

We deliver exceptional infrastructure solutions with extremely talented employees using a client‑focused partnering approach.

Job Type: Full‑time

Location:

Pensacola, US (Primary)

• Support accessibility planning and testing to ensure all delivered systems, applications, and documentation comply with Section 508 requirements.
• Conduct accessibility evaluations using approved tools (e.g., ARC, AXE, WAVE, ANDI, JAWS/NVDA screen readers, keyboard‑only navigation).
• Validate compliance against WCAG 2.1 AA and DoD Section 508 standards for web applications, portals, dashboards, and documentation.
• Identify accessibility issues and document findings, remediation steps, and risk impacts in test reports and defect tracking systems.
• Collaborate with developers, UX teams, and system owners to ensure accessibility requirements are incorporated into design and development.
• Review vendor deliverables, VPATs/ACRs, and accessibility statements to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Participate in test planning activities to integrate accessibility testing into functional, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Support creation and maintenance of accessibility test scripts, checklists, and repeatable testing procedures.
• Verify remediation activities and retest corrected accessibility findings to confirm compliance.
• Provide recommendations and technical guidance on accessibility best practices across the development lifecycle.

• Support development of test plans, test procedures, and detailed test documentation for sensing capabilities under development.
• Contribute to Integration & Test Readiness Reviews (ITRR), System Requirements Reviews (SRR/SFR), and Design Reviews (PDR/CDR).
• Develop and maintain automated regression test suites aligned with Dev Sec Ops  pipelines.
• Prepare test data, test scripts, and environment configurations required for testing events.
• Document test results including issues, severity, impact, and recommended corrective actions.

• Execute integration and interoperability test events across multiple sensing platforms including OSP, FPCAP, ASV, and IDS.
• Validate sensor performance including throughput, response time, data integrity, and system stability.
• Conduct regression testing to ensure new code, patches, or configuration changes do not impact existing functionality.
• Validate data flows, metadata generation (e.g., Zeek logs), and data brokering integration with SIEM tools.
• Support performance testing by collecting system data under load, stress, or high‑throughput scenarios.

• Perform V&V testing to confirm compliance with system, functional, security, and operational requirements.
• Validate interoperability between sensors, cloud components, data brokering services, and DISA enterprise tools.
• Support Government IV&V, JITC coordination, and Operational Test (OT) activities as required.
• Assist with documenting discrepancies, defects, risk areas, and mitigation steps.

• Conduct testing in sensing lab environments, virtual/cloud environments, and operationally representative platforms.
• Support installation, configuration, and testing of hardware, VMs, sensing software, data brokers, and network components.
• Collaborate with engineers to troubleshoot, replicate, and resolve issues discovered during testing.
• Provide test support during deployment pilots, sustainment updates, and field validation testing.

• Work closely with systems engineers, software developers, cybersecurity personnel, and PMO staff to ensure accurate test coverage.
• Provide real‑time issue tracking, severity assessments, and status…