Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer

Serve as the primary test and quality lead for a cloud-based geospatial data lake and its components (ingestion pipelines data services/APIs search interfaces and GIS client integrations). Work directly with government customers and the cloud development team to plan and execute testing find and track defects through resolution lead user acceptance testing and ensure the product is usable documented and effective for mission users.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test strategies plans cases and traceability matrices mapped to requirements/user stories across the ingestion transformation storage API and GIS client layers of the geospatial data lake
• Identify reproduce document and triage defects with developers and government stakeholders; track to resolution verify fixes and report defect trends and release readiness to program leadership and customers
• Plan coordinate and lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) events with government customers acting as the end-user advocate within the development team
• Validate geospatial data quality (geometry validity coordinate reference systems/projections attribute completeness spatial query accuracy) and test REST APIs/data service for correctness error handling security controls and performance
• Build and maintain data dictionaries user guides release notes and test reports; design and deliver end-user training; and support documentation required for accreditation audits and release approvals

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance
• Bachelors degree in Data Science Information Systems GIS Geography Engineering or a related field (or equivalent experience); typically 3 years of software testing/QA including data-intensive or geospatial systems
• Hands-on experience planning/executing integration end-to-end regression and UAT testing; writing test plans cases and reports from requirements or user stories
• Proficiency with defect/test management tools (Jira Xray Zephyr TestRail or similar) and REST API testing (Postman curl or scripted tests)
• Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and back-end verification
• GIS fundamentals: coordinate reference systems projections datums vector/raster data models; common formats (GeoJSON Shapefile); desktop GIS (Esri ArcGIS Pro and/or QGIS)
• Familiarity with AWS-hosted applications and services (Lambda ECS SQS/SNS Aurora PostgreSQL) sufficient to isolate failures; multi-environment release pipelines and Git
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with government/end-user customers run test events and communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences; strong technical writing

Desired Skills

• Test automation
• PostGIS and spatial SQL
• Performance/load testing (JMeter Locust k6)
• Experience supporting software in DoD/IC accreditation environments (RMF ATO documentation)
• Certifications such as ISTQB (Foundation or Advanced) CSTE AWS Cloud Practitioner or Esri technical certification
• DoD 8140 baseline certification (e.g. CompTIA Security)

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