Geospatial Data Scientist & QA Lead — Cloud Data Lake

teKnoluxion Consulting LLC; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Bcore is seeking a Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer in Herndon, VA, to lead testing for a cloud-based geospatial data lake. You will partner with government customers and the cloud team on test plans, cases, and defect resolution, ensuring mission-ready, secure APIs and data services.

The role requires TS/SCI with CI poly, 3+ years in software testing/QA for geospatial or data-intensive systems, and strong technical writing.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance with CI poly required to start.
• Hands-on experience planning/executing integration, end-to-end, regression, and UAT testing; writing test plans, cases, and reports from requirements or user stories.
• Proficiency with defect/test management tools (Jira, Xray, Zephyr, TestRail, or similar) and REST API testing (Postman, curl, or scripted tests).
• Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and back-end verification.
• GIS fundamentals: coordinate reference systems, projections, datums, vector/raster data models; common formats (GeoJSON, Shapefile); desktop GIS (Esri ArcGIS Pro and/or QGIS).
• Familiarity with AWS-hosted applications and services (Lambda, ECS, SQS/SNS, Aurora PostgreSQL) sufficient to isolate failures; multi-environment release pipelines and Git.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with government/end-user customers, run test events, and communicate technical issues to non-technical audiences; strong technical writing.
• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Systems, GIS, Geography, Engineering, or related field; typically 3+ years of software testing/QA for data-intensive or geospatial systems.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary test and quality lead for a cloud-based geospatial data lake and its components; plan and execute testing with government customers and the cloud team.
• Develop and execute test strategies, plans, cases, and traceability matrices across ingestion, transformation, storage, API, and GIS client layers.
• Identify, reproduce, document, and triage defects; track to resolution; report trends and release readiness to leadership and customers.
• Plan, coordinate, and lead UAT events with government customers as end-user advocate.
• Validate geospatial data quality and test REST APIs/data services for correctness, error handling, security, and performance.
• Build and maintain data dictionaries, user guides, release notes; deliver end-user training and support accreditation, audits, and releases.

Skills

Test planning

UAT testing

Defect management

Technical writing

SQL validation

GIS fundamentals

AWS familiarity

Customer liaison

Data quality basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

Jira

Xray

Zephyr

TestRail

Postman

curl

Git

ArcGIS Pro

QGIS

Job description

Bcore is seeking a Geospatial Data Scientist & Quality Assurance Engineer in Herndon, VA, to lead testing for a cloud-based geospatial data lake. You will partner with government customers and the cloud team on test plans, cases, and defect resolution, ensuring mission-ready, secure APIs and data services.

The role requires TS/SCI with CI poly, 3+ years in software testing/QA for geospatial or data-intensive systems, and strong technical writing.