Test Engineer

J5 Consulting; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid health coverage

6% 401(k) match

PTO

tuition reimbursement

bonuses

professional development

Job summary

J5 Consulting is a Maryland-based company delivering computing and consulting services for government and commercial clients. The Sponsor’s office is building a secure data ecosystem integrating enterprise search, digital forensics, and data analytics with cloud capabilities.

The position requires US Citizenship and an active Top Secret with Full Scope Polygraph; onsite in the Washington Metropolitan Area, with local travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment.
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in high-performing, cross-functional teams with multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated experience gathering requirements from stakeholders and translating into technical solutions with minimal oversight.
• Demonstrated experience with self-directed work, ownership, code quality, testing, and documentation.
• Demonstrated experience context-switching between projects and systems as priorities demand.
• Test Engineering experience across the software development lifecycle.
• Demonstrated testing of applications deployed on AWS using major services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or CloudFront.
• Strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing.
• Test automation experience using frameworks/languages (Python pytest, Java JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript Playwright/Cypress/Selenium).
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild).
• Version control with Git and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum).
• Strong defect isolation and debugging skills; collaborate with DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes.

Skills

Agile/Scrum

Cross-functional teams

Requirements gathering

Code quality/testing/documentation

Context-switching

Test Engineering

AWS testing (EC2/S3/RDS/Lambda)

QA fundamentals

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

Git/SDLC

Debugging

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CDK

Docker

ECS/EKS/Kubernetes

Postman/cURL

GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab CI

AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild

Job description

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise.

The Sponsor’s office is architecting and creating a coherent secure data ecosystem that is compatible and synchronized with the overall Sponsor’s data strategy and broader mission capabilities. These solutions and capabilities include a platform to conduct enterprise search, digital forensics, and data analytics. The Sponsor fuses modern, data-centric tradecraft and capabilities with other components in pursuit of extracting maximum value from existing data.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience

• Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment
• Demonstrated experience working effectively in high-performing, cross-functional teams with multiple concurrent projects
• Demonstrated experience working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand needs, and translate them into technical solutions with minimal oversight
• Demonstrated experience in self-directed work with a strong ownership mentality and commitment to code quality, testing, and documentation
• Demonstrated experience context-switching between projects and systems as priorities demand
• Test Engineering
• Demonstrated experience testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 1–2 major services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or CloudFront)
• Demonstrated experience with strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing
• Demonstrated experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g., Python + pytest, Java + JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript/TypeScript + Playwright/Cypress/Selenium)
• Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild)
• Demonstrated experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum)
• Demonstrated experience with strong defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience

• Test Engineering
• Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis)
• Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS or CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes
• Demonstrated experience with container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads
• Demonstrated experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; ability to validate status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling
• Demonstrated experience with logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g., CloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK)
• Demonstrated performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS
• Demonstrated experience with test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or ephemera environments)
• Demonstrated AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, SysOps Associate, or DevOps Engineer)
• Demonstrated experience in complex, high security, regulated environments
• Demonstrated experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences

US Citizenship

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed

Security Clearance

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment

Travel

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA). Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance

Join J5 Consulting and Grow Your Cybersecurity Career

At J5, we’re a team of innovators protecting organizations from evolving cyber threats. With 18+ years of success in government and commercial sectors, we offer meaningful opportunities to grow your career.

Enjoy comprehensive benefits, including:

• 100% employer-paid health coverage
• a 6% 401(k) match
• PTO
• tuition reimbursement
• bonuses
• professional development, and more