Security-Cleared QA Automation Performance Engineer

Koniag Services, Inc.

Washington (District of Columbia)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement

Paid time off

Parental leave

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Commuter benefits

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Tuknik Government Services, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a QA Automation Performance Engineer with a Secret clearance to support our government customer in the DC Metro area. This is a contingent recruiting profile.

The role focuses on automated test architecture, performance testing, and CI/CD integration using Selenium, Locust, and related tools. Five+ years of enterprise web/API test experience and US citizenship are required.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field; additional relevant experience may substitute for education.
Five or more years of test automation or performance-engineering experience for enterprise web and API applications.
Hands-on experience with Selenium/WebDriver and performance tools such as Locust, JMeter, Gatling, or k6.
Experience integrating automated tests with GitLab or comparable CI/CD platforms and analyzing performance and reliability results.
U.S. citizenship and the active security clearance or eligibility required for the assigned work by the start of performance, with ongoing eligibility thereafter.
Ability to communicate clearly with Government, technical, and business stakeholders and to maintain accurate work records in approved systems.
Ability to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and classified information, when assigned, and comply with required access, training, and handling procedures.

Responsibilities

Design the automated test architecture and integrate test suites into approved CI/CD pipelines and release gates.
Assess, repair, and reuse Government-furnished FitNesse/Selenium and Locust scripts before creating replacement automation.
Develop maintainable UI, workflow, API, integration, data, accessibility, smoke, and regression automation.
Create Locust or approved performance tests for load, stress, endurance, concurrency, soak, recovery, and fiscal year-end surge conditions.
Define representative workloads, user journeys, test data, thresholds, baselines, and pass/fail criteria with architecture and operations leads.
Execute tests independently within IL-5 and IL-6 using boundary-resident credentials, data, tools, and evidence repositories.
Analyze response time, throughput, error rates, queues, resource usage, memory behavior, scaling, and bottlenecks.
Publish raw results, trends, defects, and release recommendations to Government-visible dashboards and repositories.
Automate test evidence retention and traceability to requirements, changes, packages, environments, and releases.
Coach developers and QA staff on testability, automation standards, reliable selectors, data setup, and performance engineering.