Test Engineer

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

Introduction
The Sponsors office is architecting and creating a coherent secure data ecosystem that is compatible and synchronized with the overall Sponsors data strategy and broader mission capabilities. These solutions and capabilities include a platform to conduct enterprise search digital forensics and data analytics. The Sponsor fuses modern data-centric tradecraft and capabilities with other components in pursuit of extracting maximum value from existing data.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

• Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies in a fast-paced collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in high-performing cross-functional teams with multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements understand needs and translate them into technical solutions with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated experience in self-directed work with a strong ownership mentality and commitment to code quality testing and documentation.
• Demonstrated experience context-switching between projects and systems as priorities demand.
• Test Engineering
• Demonstrated experience testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 12 major services such as EC2 S3 RDS Lambda API Gateway ECS/EKS or CloudFront).
• Demonstrated experience with strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning test case design defect lifecycle regression testing risk-based testing.
• Demonstrated experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g. Python pytest Java JUnit/TestNG JavaScript/TypeScript Playwright/Cypress/Selenium).
• Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions Jenkins GitLab CI or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
• Demonstrated experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum).
• Demonstrated experience with strong defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

• Test Engineering
• Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g. SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis).
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform AWS CloudFormation AWS or CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes.
• Demonstrated experience with container platforms and orchestration (Docker ECS or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads.
• Demonstrated experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman curl or similar; ability to validate status codes payloads headers auth and error handling.
• Demonstrated experience with logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g. CloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK).
• Demonstrated performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6 JMeter Gatling Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS.
• Demonstrated experience with test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data masking seeding or ephemeral environments).
• Demonstrated AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner Developer Associate SysOps Associate or DevOps Engineer).
• Demonstrated experience in complex high security regulated environments.
• Demonstrated experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences.

US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification:This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel:

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA). Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis within the local place of performance.

Join J5 Consulting and Grow Your Cybersecurity Career

At J5 were a team of innovators protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats. With 18 years of success in government and commercial sectors we offer meaningful opportunities to grow your career.

Enjoy comprehensive benefits including:

• 100% employer-paid health coverage
• a 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• bonuses
• professional development and more.

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