Staff / Senior Staff Test Automation Engineer (Clearance Required)

SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, 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.

• →3+ years of professional experience in test automation, software engineering, or systems engineering with an emphasis on system delivery and acceptance
• →Strong experience developing automated tests using Python, JavaScript
• →Strong experience with deployment pipelines and integration with automated tests
• →Experience working in Linux environments
• →Experience with GitLab CI version control
• →Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including testability and modular design
• →Knowledgeable in systems engineering and IV&V engineering principles and work products for software programs
• →Secret Security clearance is mandatory
• →Demonstrated attention to detail
• →Good verbal and written communication skills

Candidates who have any of the following skills will be preferred:

• →Bachelors degree in a STEM or technical related discipline

• →Experience supporting infrastructure or platform teams (IaaS, PaaS, SRE, OpenShift)
• →Experience testing containerized systems (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• →Familiarity with networking, storage, or system-level testing
• →Experience working in DevSecOps environments
• →Experience using Helm charts, ArgoCD, Ansible Playbooks