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Test Engineer

Sterling, Virginia, United StatesOnsiteFull TimePosted 1 day ago

Are you a skilled and experienced test engineer who loves to ensure the quality and reliability of software products?

What You’ll Be Owning:

  • As a test engineer, you will be responsible for: Creating test plans, test cases, and test scripts based on the software requirements and specifications.
  • Performing functional, non-functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing.
  • Reporting, tracking, and resolving software defects and issues using bug tracking tools such as Jira and GitLab.
  • Supporting multiple development teams and tools.

What You Must Have:

  • Active TS/SCI with an ability to obtain a polygraph
  • A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 3 years of functional/system-level software testing, working in Linux environments.
  • Strong Linux command line proficiency. Including but not limited to ensuring software stability, performance, requirements validation, and forensics characterization.
  • Experience in creation and administration of virtual machines and docker containers
  • Analytical trouble shooting skills.
  • Work directly with the development team to understand software requirements and define test plans and test cases from the ground up.
  • Desire to work in a dynamic small team environment supporting multiple and disparate development efforts at the same time.

What Would Be Nice to Have:

  • A strong knowledge of software testing methodologies, tools, frameworks, and best practices.
  • Scripting with Bash, Python
  • Computer networking knowledge - wireshark, tcpdump
  • Linux-based software build systems - make, cmake, gcc
  • Debugging tools in Linux - gdb, valgrind, gprof, strace
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