Systems Engineer – Test Tool Development and Automation
| Company | KBR |
|---|---|
| Location | Springfield, VA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Mid Level, Senior |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative science field.
- 4 – 7 years of relevant experience related to test automation engineering.
- Hands-on Linux experience
- Experience with Agile Software Development
- Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
- Hands-on experience with Selenium automated test tool or similar products
- Ability to plan and conduct security testing
- Meaningful and relevant experience in developing test procedures
- Experience with systems engineering and configuration management processes – Ability to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations
- Experience with requirements development and management
- Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following program languages: Perl, Ruby, Python, and/or JavaScript
- Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, NOSQL, etc.
- Experience and/or familiarity with automated test tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Git, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Junit, JMeter, RSpec, and/or Cucumber
- Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques.
Responsibilities
- Apply industry standards and best practices for managing test tool and software development, including: discrepancy tracking, reporting, and resolution.
- Utilize industry best practices for dev, test, staging and production environments to include (but not limited to): Infrastructure as Code, Platform as a Service Construct, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (Delivery) Tools for development, deployment and configuration management of the architecture, Design for failure architecture approach, Containerization of Services where possible, Continuous Monitoring and Inspection of health and compliance to policy of Services/Environments.
- Establish and maintain an agile sprint development environment in support of customer web tools, and test tool development and maintenance; adhere to agile processes and methodologies.
- Adhere to prescribed processes and guidelines for web/tool development workstations and the development environment to include: requesting approval for software download/installation, software configuration, and software version control.
- Manage and maintain content for the customer web presence on multiple security domains to include site design, content updates, collecting web metrics, and supporting access by external customers.
- Perform physical installation, customization, support, maintenance, license updates, configurations, and monitoring of business process applications that are part of the internal support environment.
- Develop a consolidated business process tool, integrating and replacing the current project management capabilities; provide installation, customization, support, maintenance, license updates, and monitoring of the consolidated business tool after implementation.
- Provide automated and manual test management capabilities to identify, standardize and import test objectives, test procedures, test plans, test documentation, releases and cycles structure, and design of overall and low level process flows.
- Provide database design, development and maintenance (Oracle, PostGRSQL, or other as specified) for Test related web and tools projects.
- Attend and support customer planning events and technical meetings to include Vendor product reviews and daily startup and wrap-up meetings.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative science field.