Senior Test Engineer - Cloud & DoD, Remote

Aether Aerospace; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness

Paid leave

Retirement plan

Learning & development

Job summary

Aether Aerospace is seeking a Test Engineer to support the development, integration, and maturation of complex digital engineering solutions for U.S. DoD and related customers.

The role focuses on planning and executing verification and validation across cloud platforms, IaC, cybersecurity controls, and end-to-end engineering workflows, with an initial prototype in Azure Government and future multi-cloud support. Remote work options are available.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field with 5+ years of software/testing experience.
• Experience testing applications, services, or infrastructure in cloud environments (Azure or others).
• Experience developing and executing formal test plans, test cases, and test reports.
• Experience validating Infrastructure as Code and automated deployments.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Experience testing web apps, APIs, and system integrations.
• Understanding cloud security concepts, RBAC, authentication, logging, and config management.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevSecOps practices and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, cases, procedures, and scripts from requirements.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing across prototype environment.
• Validate cloud services, networking, IAM, RBAC, logging, and environment provisioning.
• Develop testing approaches for future multi-cloud deployment models.
• Support automated testing and DevSecOps integration.
• Test IAC deployments to ensure repeatability and deployment integrity.
• Validate CI/CD deployments and configuration changes with platform teams.
• Test application functionality, workflows, APIs, and system integrations for secure collaboration.
• Conduct security-focused testing of authentication, authorization, logging, and vulnerabilities.
• Support data lifecycle, access controls, and data movement testing across the ecosystem.
• Test AI/LLM-enabled services and their interactions with prototype capabilities.
• Maintain traceability and evidence demonstrating verification and validation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Agile experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/SE or related

Master's degree with 3+ years experience

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Playwright

Selenium

Robot Framework

Cypress

Postman/Newman

pytest

Pester

Vitest

Job description

Aether Aerospace is seeking a Test Engineer to support the development, integration, and maturation of complex digital engineering solutions for U.S. DoD and related customers.

The role focuses on planning and executing verification and validation across cloud platforms, IaC, cybersecurity controls, and end-to-end engineering workflows, with an initial prototype in Azure Government and future multi-cloud support. Remote work options are available.