Test Engineer

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Position: Test Engineer

Location: Arlington, VA (Hybrid)

Clearance Required: Secret

Qualifications

• Active DOD Secret Clearance required
• Minimum of 4+ years of experience as a Test Engineer or QA Engineer
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks (Selenium/Cypress, Postman/Newman, JUnit/NUnit, and/or Jest)
• Experience testing REST APIs and web applications across .NET, Java, and/or Node/NestJS stacks
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Azure DevOps and/or Jira)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) and shift-left quality practices
• Exposure to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform or other enterprise integration testing
• Exposure to containerized test execution (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Exposure to observability tooling (OpenTelemetry, App Insights)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to triage complex failures and drive root-cause analysis
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to clearly document findings and collaborate across development, BA, and platform teams
• Demonstrated ability to learn and adapt quickly in evolving technical environments

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automated test suites for functional, regression, and smoke testing targeting web UIs and REST APIs (Selenium/Cypress, Postman/Newman, JUnit/NUnit/Jest)
• Automate validation of service contracts, error handling, and data transformations; verify MuleSoft flows across System/API/Process layers
• Log, prioritize, and validate defect fixes using Azure DevOps/Jira; provide clear reproduction steps and supporting evidence
• Create deterministic test data, xevrcyc stubs/mocks, and environment configurations; manage secrets securely and ensure test repeatability
• Maintain living test plans, suites, and dashboards; publish sprint quality reports and release readiness summaries
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions) and contribute to pull-request quality gates (coverage, static analysis, linting)
• Author test runners and Docker files; execute suites inside Docker and assist with Kubernetes job orchestration for parallel test runs
• Capture structured logs and traces (OpenTelemetry/App Insights), triage failures, and support root-cause analysis with engineers