Test Engineer (Senior)

Description

This is a full-time senior engineering role on a federal program that supports the Department of State.

The company holds a contract to provide IT support for the Department of State by modernizing and maintaining applications and infrastructure through an integrated IT service management approach.

You would work alongside experienced colleagues and lead a high-performing team.

Responsibilities

• Plan and run complete software test programs across the global CA IT estate, serving 40,000+ users.
• Test critical systems to confirm they keep running if physical infrastructure or hosting sites are lost.
• Check infrastructure designs, including redundant standby setups that run as active/active or active/passive.
• Lead testing of network upgrades that must work with 42+ outside partner agencies and government systems.
• Test cloud migrations for FedRAMP compliance and data sovereignty rules.
• Regularly test failover and Disaster Recovery (DR) procedures, checking Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) for critical systems.
• Confirm scalability against capacity plans, growth forecasts and performance analysis.
• Use DevSecOps tools such as Ansible, Terraform and SonarQube, and build advanced CI/CD pipelines that automate build, test, security checks and results analysis.
• Create test strategies, frameworks and quality assurance standards for enterprise infrastructure and applications.
• Act as a technical expert across several projects, leading major testing efforts, mentoring junior test engineers and supervising QA teams.

Requirements

• Required: a bachelor's degree plus 8 years in related areas such as test engineering, quality assurance, software testing, infrastructure testing or DevOps; equivalent experience is considered.
• Required: an active Secret clearance.
• Required: a track record of leading full test planning and execution for large, mission-critical infrastructure serving thousands of users.
• Required: strong skill in disaster recovery testing, failover checks, high-availability testing and FedRAMP compliance testing.
• Required: strong hands-on DevSecOps tooling and advanced CI/CD pipeline work, especially with Ansible, Terraform and automated test frameworks.
• Required: strong leadership, including planning and leading major testing work, serving as a subject matter expert and supervising QA teams.
• Desired: experience supporting federal agencies, especially the Department of State.
• Desired: certifications such as ISTQB Advanced Level, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional or CISSP.
• Desired: experience with cloud migration testing, FedRAMP validation and interoperability testing with partner agencies.
• Desired: knowledge of active/active and active/passive architectures, capacity planning validation and testing across 300+ geographically distributed facilities.

Conditions

Full-time, regular position with up to 10% local travel.

Minimum clearance needed to start: Secret.

Proposed salary range: $103,800 - $218,100.

Salary depends on factors including location, federal contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant prior experience, skills, education and certifications.

Competitive pay, benefits and learning and development options are offered, and the company supports flexibility so staff can balance work and personal life.

Benefits

• Flexible time off that you can take as you need.
• Access to robust learning resources to support career growth.
• Comprehensive benefits covering healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education and time off.