Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Test Engineer to own and evolve the test strategy for a cloud-native data and analytics platform. The role involves designing and implementing automated testing frameworks while ensuring quality and reliability across various components of the platform.
Responsibilities:
- Experience designing and executing comprehensive test strategies for complex software systems
- Experience creating and maintaining automated test frameworks and reusable test libraries
- Experience testing cloud-based architectures, including data platforms and distributed systems
- Experience with Python-based testing frameworks such as PyTest
- Experience with API testing and backend validation
- Experience validating data pipelines, ETL processes, and data quality
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or SAFe environments
- Ability to clearly document expected versus actual results and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Top Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience in software testing, or 14+ years of experience in software testing in lieu of a degree
Requirements:
- Experience designing and executing comprehensive test strategies for complex software systems
- Experience creating and maintaining automated test frameworks and reusable test libraries
- Experience testing cloud-based architectures, including data platforms and distributed systems
- Experience with Python-based testing frameworks such as PyTest
- Experience with API testing and backend validation
- Experience validating data pipelines, ETL processes, and data quality
- Experience working in Agile, Scrum, or SAFe environments
- Ability to clearly document expected versus actual results and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Top Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 10+ years of experience in software testing, or 14+ years of experience in software testing in lieu of a degree
- Experience with AWS services supporting data and analytics such as S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, or Step Functions
- Experience testing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or Terragrunt
- Experience with Playwright or similar UI automation frameworks
- Experience validating CI/CD pipelines such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar
- Experience testing security-constrained or IL-level cloud environments
- Experience with performance and load testing for data-intensive systems
- Experience with data governance, metadata, or analytics platforms
- IAT Level II Certification such as CompTIA Security+ certification
- Computing Environment Certification, such as AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certification