DevSecOps QA Engineer — Cloud & Automation Expert

Steampunk, Inc.; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk seeks a Quality Assurance Tester to join its DevSecOps practice in a government-focused environment. You will design test plans, automate tests, and validate cloud migrations, while collaborating with developers and product teams to ensure secure, reliable software delivery.

The role requires 3–5 years of QA experience, strong automation skills with Selenium/Appium/SoapUI/RestAssured/Postman, and hands-on experience in Agile environments using Docker and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain a U.S. government Security Clearance
• BS Degree in an IT field OR BS in a non-IT field and 2 years related IT experience
• 3 Years of Experience with Git SCM providers such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket
• 3 Years of Experience with one or more programming or scripting languages
• 3 Years of application DevSecOps Experience with actual/active development experience in an Agile environment
• Experience utilizing docker containers and utilizing platforms such as Kubernetes
• 3 Years of Experience implementing test automation, using tools such as Selenium, Appium, Soap UI, RestAssured, Postman
• Experience integrating test automation including performance, security, and functional tests into CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with performance and load testing
• Experience in one or more cloud computing environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Responsibilities

• Understand stakeholder needs and convey to developers
• Meet with product design team to determine testing parameters
• Write test plans, create test cases, test procedures, bug reports, QA reports
• Manage test data architecture definition and requests
• Troubleshoot errors and streamline test procedures
• Test and examine code and analyze results across data validation, functional, performance, usability, and accessibility testing
• Establish automated testing tools and infrastructure for test automation
• Provide validation testing for cloud migrations across datasets and systems
• Develop automated testing scripts considering parallelization and idempotency
• Automate and improve development, testing, deployment, and release processes
• Ensure systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Collaborate with developers to ensure processes are followed
• Document as-is state, perform gap analysis, produce options and recommendations
• Leverage virtualization and containerization to optimize testing systems
• Work with teams to improve DevSecOps processes and tools
• Engineer and implement solutions for continuous improvement
• Present status updates and provide cross-training to DevOps team members
• Act as individual contributor and mentor junior team members

Skills

Git

Programming scripting

DevSecOps

Cloud platforms

Test automation

Education

BS in IT

Tools

Selenium

Appium

SoapUI

RestAssured

Postman

Job description

Steampunk seeks a Quality Assurance Tester to join its DevSecOps practice in a government-focused environment. You will design test plans, automate tests, and validate cloud migrations, while collaborating with developers and product teams to ensure secure, reliable software delivery.

The role requires 3–5 years of QA experience, strong automation skills with Selenium/Appium/SoapUI/RestAssured/Postman, and hands-on experience in Agile environments using Docker and Kubernetes.