QA Specialist Virtual

Job Title: QA Specialist

• Location: Lexington MA (Virtual)
• Job Type: W2 Contract

Background/Need:

The Group is looking for a Quality Assurance/Test Engineer. In this role you will need to have software development skills quality assurance testing skills automation and orchestration skills computer administration skills network administration skills hardware skills and the ability to adapt to the needs of a growing and evolving team. Youll need to be flexible motivated and able to quickly learn new technologies to meet requirements. Candidates will need to be able to work in a fastpaced and challenging environment. They must also possess a love for technical challenges a desire to constantly learn and be able to establish themselves as a critical player within a team.

Resposibilities:

The position shall be responsible ensuring quality assurance of a highavailability server and network infrastructure composed of numerous software components. The position is responsible for the design and implementation of software quality assurance best practices in order to ensure reliable software releases into production. The ability to document test methodologies (e.g. creating test plans) and to develop automated testing capabilities to ensure time critical testing is conducted on a rapid schedule is required. The position is responsible for testing software components in a variety of server and network configurations troubleshooting issues and identifying software defects. The position shall proactively identify applicable quality assurance best practices and recommend process and technology improvements to testing approach and test infrastructure. The position shall work closely with project managers and other developers engineers and research staff to manage capacity and carry out quality assurance testing duties.

Must Have:

Experience with generating automated tests.
Experience with static and runtime analysis tools.
Experience with Selenium / python for web UI test automation.
Experience with testing idiomatic Rust code with Clippy Lints.
Experience with NSA certification process.

Nice to Have:

Bachelors Degree.
DoD/NSA Policies & Technologies (COMSEC).
Support of DevSecOps environments.
Scripting Experience: Python Ansible TCL or Bash.
System programming languages (e.g. C/C Rust or Go).

Gitlab CI/CD.
Virtualization technology.
Containerization (Docker podman etc.)
Orchestration (Kubernetes/k8s Tanzu OpenShift Rancher)
Experience with DevOps workflows and common CI/CD tools.

Education & Experience: 5 Years of relevant work experience.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.