Software Developer

Software Developer

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

• Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work:
  Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

This is a contingent position based upon contract award.

K  is seeking a mid-level Software Developers to support government customers in Springfield, VA. The Software Developer provides software development and technical expertise to support and enable a test and evaluation program’s modernization goals. The software engineer will work closely with the scientists and engineers in the image quality domain to identify manual and analytic tasks for automation. Through market research and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA), the Software Developer will propose new epics or additions to existing epics to accomplish automation goals.

Task automation services will include code and script generation, code testing, support to code security accreditation, and documenting. In support of the Dev Ops environment, this role will support decomposing existing business process and test tool capabilities into micro-services capable of deployment through a Dev Ops infrastructure. Additionally, this role will provide the expertise to effectively analyze the output of Dev Ops tools and assist the customer in incorporating the results into overall assessments.

• Conduct engineering analysis to identify all tasks (both manual and analytic) associated with assessment of system capabilities and interfaces, sensor parameters or functions, or GEOINT services.
• Conduct engineering analysis to identify candidate tasks for automation.
• Conduct market research to identify automation technologies available on the commercial market that align with mission needs.
• Automate selected tasks through code/script generation, or by identifying existing in-house or commercially available solutions (including open-source alternatives); identify opportunities to consolidate tasks or processes to maximize efficiency or minimize cost.
  • Developed tools shall support objectives such as: functionality testing, step automation, continuous integration automation, automated system monitoring, load testing, service virtualization, performance profiling, etc.
• Implement accepted automation solutions in the Dev Test environment or internal test environment as directed.
• Design and develop automation scripts, tools, or applications, and appropriate test scenarios to verify the performance, capacity, and scalability of services and capabilities.
• Provide expertise to analyze output of automated test tools, scripts, applications, and processes to evaluate against established criteria and develop a recommendation to the government and product vendor.
• Provide expert level support of test automation capable of creating and running scripts within government furnished automation and testing tools (e.g. HP ALM, CA Service virtualization, etc.) development.
• Provide web application design, development, and maintenance for test-related web and tools projects, including those for the Intelligence Community (IC) Common Operating Environment (COE) Test Environment (IC CTE).
  • test-related web and tools projects
  • IC CTE-related web and tools projects
• Provide support and expertise to develop custom product quality assessment tools for the full range of traditional and non-traditional imaging systems, products, and data formats.
• Collaborate with image quality engineers and image scientists to develop custom product quality assessment tools, and to understand and support…