Remote QA & Disaster-Recovery Engineer (AWS GovCloud)

CAI; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

CAI is seeking a QA/Disaster Recovery Test Engineer for a fully remote, full-time role supporting an AWS GovCloud hosting environment for a state government client. The role focuses on validating disaster-recovery failover, data integrity, and semi-annual test cycles, with ownership of test execution and results tracking.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years QA/test engineering in cloud settings, hands-on GovCloud experience, and U.S. citizenship.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of QA or test engineering experience in cloud environments.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud (US) experience — not commercial AWS.
• Experience validating disaster-recovery failover against defined RPO/RTO targets.
• U.S. citizen — this role has hands-on-keyboard access to GovCloud

Responsibilities

• Execute test plans validating disaster-recovery failover across two GovCloud regions against defined recovery-point and recovery-time objectives.
• Lead recurring DR test cycles, documenting results and tracking remediation items to closure.
• Validate data integrity after failover or migration events — checksums, referential integrity, and dashboard output vs source.
• Support cutover rehearsals during transition, including rollback-procedure validation.
• Partner with DevOps/SRE and Technical Development Lead on test environment setup

Skills

QA experience

Cloud environments

AWS GovCloud

Job description

CAI is seeking a QA/Disaster Recovery Test Engineer for a fully remote, full-time role supporting an AWS GovCloud hosting environment for a state government client. The role focuses on validating disaster-recovery failover, data integrity, and semi-annual test cycles, with ownership of test execution and results tracking.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years QA/test engineering in cloud settings, hands-on GovCloud experience, and U.S. citizenship.