Remote QA & Disaster Recovery Engineer (AWS GovCloud)

CAI; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 150,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

CAI is seeking a QA/Disaster Recovery Test Engineer to execute test plans and lead DR test cycles for an AWS GovCloud hosting environment supporting a state government health and human services client. This role focuses on validating failover and data integrity across multi-region environments, with ownership of disaster-recovery testing.

The position is full-time and fully remote, offering ongoing engagement during initial build and recurring semi-annual test cycles at steady state. U.S.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of QA or test engineering experience in cloud environments.
• Hands-on AWS GovCloud (US) experience — not commercial AWS alone
• Experience validating disaster-recovery failover against defined RPO/RTO targets
• Must be a U.S. citizen — this role has hands-on-keyboard access to the GovCloud environment.
• Experience with data validation and reconciliation at scale (checksums, referential integrity checks)
• Experience in HIPAA-regulated or PHI-scale environments
• AWS certification

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 — row counts, checksums, referential integrity, and dashboard output comparison against the source environment
• Support cutover rehearsals during transition, including rollback-procedure validation
• Partner with the Technical Development Lead and DevOps/SRE team on test environment setup

Skills

QA experience

AWS GovCloud

DR testing

Data validation

PHI environments

AWS certification

Tools

AWS GovCloud

Job description

CAI is seeking a QA/Disaster Recovery Test Engineer to execute test plans and lead DR test cycles for an AWS GovCloud hosting environment supporting a state government health and human services client. This role focuses on validating failover and data integrity across multi-region environments, with ownership of disaster-recovery testing.

The position is full-time and fully remote, offering ongoing engagement during initial build and recurring semi-annual test cycles at steady state. U.S.