Remote QA & Disaster Recovery Test Engineer (AWS GovCloud)

CAI

Carson City (NV)

Remote

USD 150,000 - 165,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

CAI seeks a QA/Disaster Recovery Test Engineer to execute test plans for an AWS GovCloud hosting environment supporting a state government health and human services client. This full-time, remote role focuses on validating DR failover and data integrity across multiple regions, with close collaboration with DevOps/SRE teams during build, transition, and ongoing semi-annual cycles.

The candidate will validate failover objectives, oversee test cycles, and ensure data remains intact during

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.

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.