• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education, with 4-8 years of professional experience; or 2-6 years of professional experience with a related Master’s degree. 
• Experience in testing cloud tools and capabilities within a DoD environment. 
• 2+ years of systems engineering experience 
• 1+ years of hands-on experience in testing AWS infrastructure environments, test automation, and requirements verification, managing multiple environments 
• Experience with cloud-based AWS services- Experience with SecDevOps and CI/CD pipeline 
• Experience with cloud-based - specifically AWS - enterprise implementations 
• Experience working with Linux operating system and operating system commands 
• Knowledge of web services: API, REST 
• Strong awareness of networking and internet protocols 
• Experience with JIRA, Git repo and Confluence 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers and architects 
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience 
• DoD Secret clearance or ability to obtain interim Secret clearance prior to start date 
• Security+ certification or equivalent DoD 8570 IAT II certification within 60 days of start date 

Responsibilities:  

• Maintain a mapping of requirements and use cases to developed test cases. 
• Development of requirements and use case based test cases to ensure functionality innovations. 
• Create test plan, test engineering documents and manage test efforts to support the GSM-O Innovation deployments. 
• Support the design and implementation of test cases and testing framework for the instantiation of infrastructure as code innovations in an AWS environment to verify the quality of deployed code. 
• Write actionable test cases to verify testable product requirements derived from user stories based on input from development and operations teams. 
• Support the automation of test tooling and pipelines that enable secured and tested systems to be deployed across a variety of environments in the AWS Cloud. 
• Implementation and execution of interface integration test cases to ensure integration of the tools to external sources. 
• Author and execute User Acceptance strategies, plans and scripts for the innovations deployment 
• Ensuring that the test strategy is maintained and updated as needed in accordance with best practices throughout the development lifecycle. 
• Employing exceptional problem-solving skills. 
• Performing Regression, Integration, and Verification and Validation Testing of innovations being developed 
• Conduct troubleshooting/test execution in support of remediation efforts as required 
• Assist with identifying and supporting external dependencies where needed. 

Knowledge and Skills:  

• Understanding of ITIL foundation or ITIL certified 
• Experience with Ansible or Python scripting 
• Experience with Automated Test frameworks 
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD implementation 
• Experience with Xray Test Management 
• Experience developing test cases for system requirements across multiple subsystems/tools 
• Experience testing open-source and COTS technology 
• Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing 
• AWS cloud certifications 
• Experience with other database systems (Relational / Graph / NoSQL) and data models 
• 2-4 (or more) years of experience with systems and/or test engineering 

Clearance/Citizenship:  

• Top Secret 
• Must be US Citizen