Test Engineer

Description Altamira Technologies has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities worldwide by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies. We are Looking for an experienced Automated Test Engineer to join our team. In this role you will support testing activities as a member of the test, development and deployment team. You will be supporting key activities in defense of emerging threats in the cybersecurity domain and work as part of a team that develops and tailors’ capabilities with the common goal to prevent and eradicate threats to critical U.S. systems. TS/SCI/FS Poly clearance only is required for this position . Qualifications:

• Work to develop and execute automated test and evaluation plans for custom software as a part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
• Coordinate and integrate Evaluation and Testing tasks and products
• Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving test and evaluation (T&E) status to help manage program risk: develop alternative courses of action, work arounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones
• Bachelor's Degree (BS) in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related discipline from an accredited college or university.
• Minimum Seven (7) years’ experience as a test engineer in programs of similar scope, type and complexity is required.
• Four (4) years of additional test engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. A master’s degree may be substituted for two (2) years of experience

Required Skills:

• Must have a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Seven (7+) years’ experience creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
• 5+ years of experience applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automated test scripts to validate new features, custom applications, configuration changes, and system upgrades.
• Experience managing regression testing including comprehensive coverage of all software/system patches, upgrades, releases.
• Experience writing/maintaining high-quality documentation for test plans, automation standards, and execution procedures.
• Experience working within cloud infrastructure in classified AWS environment.
• Scripting experience/Python is desired
• Ability to work version control systems (e.g. SVN, GIT), and experience with JIRA ticketing tool, and understanding of basic CM principles.
• Strong written and verbal communications with experience working as part of an Agile Development Team
• U.S. Citizenship
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph

Education and Experience:

• Applicant must have a Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or related discipline.
• Seven (7+) years’ experience creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
• 5+ years of experience applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.

Altamira is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. We focus on recruiting talented, self-motivated employees that find a way to get things done. Join our team of experts as we engineer national security!