QA Automation Performance Engineer

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, is seeking a QA Automation Performance Engineer with a Secret security clearance to support TGS in supporting our government customer in the DC Metro area. This position is for a Future New Business Opportunity.      Benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off, paid parental leave, life and disability insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement. Tuknik Government Services, LLC, Koniag Government Services (KGS) is seeking qualified candidates for this role supporting our U.S. Army customer on a large-scale Army contracting systems modernization and automation program. Engineers reusable automated test suites and performance evidence for releases, migration waves, and separate IL-5/IL-6 environments. This role focuses on pipeline-integrated automation, load, stress, endurance, concurrency, recovery, and reliability rather than primarily manual functional testing. This is a contingent recruiting profile; the opening, employing subsidiary, compensation, work location, and staffing remain subject to final contract authorization.   Essential Functions, Responsibilities & Duties may include, but are not limited to: Design the automated test architecture and integrate test suites into approved CI/CD pipelines and release gates. Assess, repair, and reuse Government-furnished FitNesse/Selenium and Locust scripts before creating replacement automation. Develop maintainable UI, workflow, API, integration, data, accessibility, smoke, and regression automation. Create Locust or approved performance tests for load, stress, endurance, concurrency, soak, recovery, and fiscal year-end surge conditions. Define representative workloads, user journeys, test data, thresholds, baselines, and pass/fail criteria with architecture and operations leads. Execute tests independently within IL-5 and IL-6 using boundary-resident credentials, data, tools, and evidence repositories. Analyze response time, throughput, error rates, queues, resource usage, memory behavior, scaling, and bottlenecks. Publish raw results, trends, defects, and release recommendations to Government-visible dashboards and repositories. Automate test evidence retention and traceability to requirements, changes, packages, environments, and releases. Coach developers and QA staff on testability, automation standards, reliable selectors, data setup, and performance engineering.   Education and Experience Required: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education. Five or more years of test automation or performance-engineering experience for enterprise web and API applications. Hands-on experience with Selenium/WebDriver and one or more performance tools such as Locust, JMeter, Gatling, or k6. Experience integrating automated tests with GitLab or comparable CI/CD platforms and analyzing performance and reliability results. U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter. Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems. Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.   Education and Experience Desired: Experience with Appian, FitNesse for Appian, Appian Locust, Cypress, Postman, SoapUI, or accessibility automation. Experience modeling high-volume, geographically distributed, fiscal year-end, or mission-critical user demand. Performance-testing, cloud, Appian, or Agile testing certification.   Required Skills and Competencies: UI, workflow, API, and regression automation Load, stress, endurance, and recovery testing Selenium, FitNesse, Locust, and CI/CD integration Performance analysis and capacity evidence Test architecture, metrics, and coaching   Work Environment and Travel: Work may occur remotely when authorized, at Government facilities, or in controlled office and data-center environments. Work involving classified information or SIPRNet will be performed at a Government-approved secure location using authorized systems. The role generally supports Government business hours, with occasional release, incident-response, maintenance-window, or approved travel requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy The company is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, ethnicity, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin or ancestry, age, disability, citizenship, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits, and all other privileges, terms, and conditions of employment.   The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants. If you require an accommodation to navigate or apply for a position on our website, please get in touch with Heaven Wood via e-mail at accommodations@koniag-gs.com or by calling 703-488-9377 to request accommodations.   Koniag Government Services (KGS) is an Alaska Native Owned corporation supporting the values and traditions of our native communities through an agile employee and corporate culture that delivers Enterprise Solutions, Professional Services and Operational Management to Federal Government Agencies. As a wholly owned subsidiary of Koniag, we apply our proven commercial solutions to a deep knowledge of Defense and Civilian missions to provide forward leaning technical, professional, and operational solutions. KGS enables successful mission outcomes for our customers through solution-oriented business partnerships and a commitment to exceptional service delivery. We ensure long-term success with a continuous improvement approach while balancing the collective interests of our customers, employees, and native communities. For more information, please visit www.koniag-gs.com.   Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Shareholder Preference in accordance with Public Law 88-352