Join Our Mission-Driven Team as a Test Engineer at Farfield Systems
At Farfield Systems, we have proudly supported the government contracting community for over 23 years, delivering impactful solutions for our customers' most critical missions. Our commitment to our team members has always been our priority, fostering a culture of collaboration that drives customer satisfaction. We believe in the power of being “employee driven…customer focused,” a guiding principle that shapes our core values and culture.
We are excited to announce an opportunity for a
Test Engineer to join our dedicated team in supporting a vital U.S. Government customer. In this role, you will play a key part in providing onsite incident response to civilian government agencies and critical asset owners facing cyber-attacks. Your expertise will help ensure immediate investigation and resolution of these incidents, making a real difference in our customers' operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define, plan, and execute test assignments for large-scale and complex software and hardware systems, ensuring mission readiness.
- Establish both automated and manual testing methods; develop comprehensive test plans, requirements, procedures, and reports while conducting thorough tests.
- Actively participate in test readiness reviews and design reviews to ensure alignment with customer needs.
- Leverage your software development experience to validate test integrity, quality, and execution.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define language, database, and computer requirements, as well as configuration management techniques.
- Implement state-of-the-art test planning and execution using modern technologies and frameworks, such as SAFe or similar methodologies.
- Develop and maintain detailed test documentation, including plans, procedures, and reports, to support ongoing project success.
- Analyze test results and effectively communicate findings with management and project teams.
- Keep program management informed of any deviations from customer requirements to ensure transparency and alignment.
At Farfield Systems, your work will matter, and you will be a vital part of a team that values your input and fosters your growth. If you’re ready to contribute to meaningful missions and support our customers in critical moments, we want to hear from you!
Apply today and help us continue to make a positive impact in the government contracting space!
Requirements:
Required Skills:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active Secret clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 6+ years of directly relevant experience, ideally in an agile environment
- 2+ years of automated and/or manual test experience
- Excellent and applicable experience with Agile Continuous Development / Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery along with hands-on experience with automated test tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Git, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Junit, JMeter, RSpec, Cucumber, and other industry-leading tools and techniques
- 2+ years’ experience developing software with Java, Cucumber, Gherkin or similar language in an agile environment
- Experience with requirements development and management along with associated
- Ability to plan, conduct and conduct security testing
- Meaningful and relevant experience in developing test procedures
- Experience with systems engineering and configuration management processes
- Able to generate test-related documentation as necessary
- Excellent teamwork skills including ability to work well with agile development teams, customers, and coworkers at all levels
- Ability to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations
Desired Skills:
- Experience with automated and manual testing processes
- Hands-on DevOps or DevSecOps experience
- Familiarity with following CISA practices:
o Securing the Software Supply Chain
o Cybersecurity Best Practices
o Open-Source Software Security
- Familiarity with NIST SP 800-218, Secure Software Development Framework V1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities
- Hands on experience with automated testing solutions such as: Selenium, Puppeteer, Cypress, WebDriverIO, Playwright, Cucumber or NightWatchJS.
- Manual and Automated Testing experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following program languages: Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript
- Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, NOSQL
- DHS experience
Required Education:
BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Systems Engineering or related discipline, or HS diploma and 7+ years of directly relevant experience.
Desired Certifications:
- DoD 8570.1 IAT Level II
- Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) or similar
- Certifications related to Agile development and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- AWS Certifications
Security Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
