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 25%

Type of Travel: Outside Continental US

Anticipated Posting End: 3/1/2025

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a meticulous and skilled Test Engineer to join our team working on the Makalu contract. This role involves ensuring the quality and reliability of highly used and critically important cloud-native applications that provide Situational Awareness and Collaboration capabilities. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software testing, excellent documentation skills, and experience with test management tools.

On team Makalu, test engineers are an integral part of the development team. Test engineers are expected to be flexible and adaptive to supporting the needs of the program. Test engineer is encouraged to work closely with 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 regression, acceptance, and useability testing to help support continuous software delivery. Continually improve test processes and practices based on inspection/adaptation of previous iterations.
• Create, document, and maintain comprehensive test plans and test cases
• Execute/analyze test cases and document 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
• Maintain testing database with up to date test procedures.
• Coordinate testing efforts across networks, browsers, etc.
• 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.
• Proactively bring issues and problems to the attention of the team; generating, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them.
• Be meticulous about documentation and maintaining a robust log of all test cases and test results.
• 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 CI Poly
• Bachelor's degree in systems engineering, electrical engineering, information technology, or related field or at least a minimum of 3 years experience
• 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.

Desired:

• Experience with DevOps concepts including Continuous Delivery (CD), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Behavior and/or Test Driven Development (BDD / TDD).
• Experience with API test tools (Postman, JMeter, Swagger, etc.)
• Experience with UI test tools (Cypress, Selenium, Jest, etc.)
• 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 purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI takes pride in fostering a diverse and accessible culture where every individual feels supported to chart their own path. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality.

A focus on continuous growth.

Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy.

Your potential is limitless. So is ours.

Learn more about CACI here.

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Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Learn more here.

Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position.

The proposed salary range for this position is:

$57,500-$117,900

CACI is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.