SciTec, a wholly owned subsidiary of Firefly Aerospace, is a dynamic non-traditional defense contractor that delivers advanced technologies in support of U.S. National Security and Defense. For the past forty-five plus years, we have supported Department of Defense customers by developing innovative remote sensing algorithms, tools, and techniques to deliver world-class data exploitation capabilities supporting missile defense; intelligence, surveillance, & reconnaissance; space domain awareness; and aircraft survivability missions.
Important Notice: SciTec exclusively works on U.S. government contracts that require U.S. citizenship for all employees. Applicants that do not meet this requirement will not be considered.
We are seeking a Test Automation Engineer to design, build, and maintain automated testing frameworks that support a broad portfolio of infrastructure, platform, and software systems. This role enables quality, reliability, and release confidence across IaaS, PaaS, networking, storage, security, and application teams by embedding test automation throughout the development and delivery lifecycle.
The ideal candidate has strong engineering fundamentals, experience testing distributed systems, and the ability to collaborate across disciplines to create scalable, maintainable test solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain automated test frameworks supporting infrastructure, platform, and application systems
- Develop automated tests across multiple layers, including: Infrastructure and platform services, APIs and microservices, Data pipelines and messaging systems, User-facing applications
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to support continuous integration and delivery
- Collaborate with software, platform, infrastructure, and security engineers to define test strategies and coverage
- Create and maintain test harnesses, mocks, simulators, and stubs for complex or external system dependencies
- Support testing of distributed, real-time, and high-availability systems
- Identify gaps in test coverage and propose improvements to increase reliability and reduce risk
- Support regression, performance, and integration testing efforts
- Analyze test results, troubleshoot failures, and work with engineers to resolve issues
- Maintain clear test documentation, reports, and metrics
- Promote best practices for test automation, maintainability, and reliability
- Participate in Agile development processes and planning activities
- Perform other duties as assigned