Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution.  Contract personnel perform investigations tocharacterize ofthe severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services.  Nightwing is seeking a Test Engineer to support this critical customer mission. 

Responsibilities Include:

• Defines, plans and performs test assignments for large scale, complex, software and hardware systems

• Establishes automated and manual test methods and techniques, develops test plans and requirements, writes test procedures and reports, and conducts tests

• Participates in test readiness reviews and design reviews

• Applies software development experience and knowledge to ensure test validity, integrity, quality, and execution

• Conducts tests which include collaborating closely with others in establishing language, database, and computer requirements along with configuration management techniques

• Performs test planning and implementation using state-of-the-art technologies, processes, and frameworks (e.g.SAFeor similar framework)

• Develops and maintains test documentation including plans, procedures, reports, etc.

• Analyzes test results and accurately discuss them with management and teams

• Documents andkeepsprogram management informed of deviations from customer 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 agileenvironment

• Experience with requirements development and management along with associated

• Ability to plan, conductand 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 orDevSecOpsexperience

• Familiarity with following CISA practices:

• Securing the Software Supply Chain

• Cybersecurity BestPractices

• 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 experiencewith automated testing solutions such as: Selenium, Puppeteer, Cypress,WebDriverIO, Playwright, Cucumber orNightWatchJS

• Manual and Automated Testing experience and/or familiarity withone of moreof the following program languages: Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

• Experience and/or familiarity withone of moreof the following database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, NOSQL

• DHS experience

Required Education:

BS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Computer Systems Engineeringor 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

Syndeo ESS-3428