Staff / Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer (Clearance Required)

SciTec, a Firefly Aerospace Company, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.

Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. Applicants that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.

SciTec is seeking a Test Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain a continuous deployment pipeline (Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts, ArgoCD, Ansible Playbooks) of an integrated infrastructure, platform, and software service stack in RHEL factory and test environments. Additional tasking includes developing automated test cases to validate program releases.

This involves supporting the seamless integration of various data sources, processing pipelines, and infrastructure components to meet complex mission requirements. Duties performed in Aurora, CO and Boulder, CO.

Responsibilities:

• Requirements: Understand requirement decomposition as applicable to success criteria for feature releases, and at times support requirement verification events.
• Systems Integration: Collaborate on the integration of various systems, including internal and external tools and data sources, legacy systems, and modernized platforms. Define and help manage data flows, ensuring seamless data exchange.
• Documentation: Incorporate documentation and traceability to test plans & procedures and requirement verification records in daily activities; maintain clear test documentation, reports, metrics.
• Design, Implement, and maintain automated test procedures and test cases as well as traceability to program deliverable artifacts.
• Develop automated tests across multiple layers, including infrastructure and platform services, APIs and microservices, Data pipelines and messaging systems, user-facing applications.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipeline to support continuous integration and deployment to support release builds, checkouts, and new feature validation.
• Collaborate with IVT lead, development leads, and security engineers to ensure test coverage
• Identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements to increase reliability and reduce risk
• Support regression, performance, and integration testing efforts
• Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and work with engineers to resolve issues within process