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North Point Technology

Recruits and retains defense mission engineers

Test Engineer

Test Automation EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSt. Louis, MO, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • DevOps practices applied to develop, maintain, and continuously improve test automation assets, including configuration control, traceability, and repeatability.
  • Experience using Jira and Confluence to manage requirements, tasks, test artifacts, and project documentation.
  • Experience with software development, testing, and integration activities within cloud development environments.
  • Participation in SAFe Agile workflows, including daily standups, sprint reviews, and functional testing.
  • Ability to collaborate with Product Owners, Software Developers, and QA Teams to develop test approaches, emphasizing regression test automation.
  • Experience creating, maintaining, and evaluating automated test suites to validate application functionality and improve test coverage.
  • Experience executing and documenting testing activities for Jira-tracked development efforts.
  • Ability to analyze testing results and provide actionable feedback to development teams.
  • Experience testing within commercial cloud platforms such as AWS and OpenShift using DevOps tooling.
  • Experience testing back-end and front-end application processes.
  • Scripting skills using Python or similar languages to automate tasks.
  • Experience with CI pipeline test execution, including JEST, Cypress, and/or Playwright.
  • Knowledge of software performance testing practices.
  • Bachelor's degree or Master's degree with relevant experience, or equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
  • DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 or Level 3 certification compliance, such as Security+.
  • Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI and CI Polygraph.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with Product Owners, Development Teams, Architects, and QA Managers to design, develop, execute, and maintain comprehensive test strategies that support mission objectives and product requirements.
  • Participate in a SAFe Agile workflow, including daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
  • Review and implement test requirements, support test case execution, and contribute to release validation activities.
  • Use testing methodologies and troubleshooting experience to identify defects, maintain test automation frameworks, participate in test plan reviews, and document test results and quality metrics.
  • Help ensure overall system code coverage remains above 80%.
  • Support software quality, performance, and continuous improvement through rigorous testing practices.

Desired Qualifications

  • Track test failures back to code changes that introduced defects.
  • Review code check-ins to assess the impact of changes on system functionality and potential bugs.
  • Software development or integration experience in a service-oriented environment, such as cloud, SOA, or web services, or a virtualization environment.
  • Experience with unit testing, continuous integration tools, and Git version control.
  • Experience using SQL queries and database analysis techniques to validate application data, investigate defects, and ensure data integrity.
  • Experience with DoD Aeronautical Datasets.
  • Experience with AWS CloudFormation templates.
  • Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

About the Company

North Point Technology

Recruits and retains defense mission engineers

North Point Technology is a woman-owned small business based in Reston, Virginia, that supports the U.S. government’s defense missions by recruiting and retaining highly skilled technologists. It addresses the challenge of assembling and keeping top engineers for critical mission programs by offering competitive compensation and benefits, which helps attract and keep the best people. The company’s approach combines a lean, efficient business model with a culture of focused, mission-driven work to supply capable teams to federal programs. Unlike larger firms with high overhead, North Point Technology concentrates on attracting and retaining talent to meet government needs. The company’s goal is to provide a steady supply of skilled engineers who can work on essential defense systems, ensuring mission success for federal clients.

Company size
11-50
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Reston, VA
Founded
2005

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