Key skills
JavaCypressJUnitAWSPostmanAgileCommunication
About this role
Nava is a consultancy and public benefit corporation focused on improving government services through technology. The Backend Test Engineer will work on cross-functional teams to develop scalable systems for government partners, modernizing legacy platforms to enhance user experiences and accessibility.
Responsibilities:
- Working with fellow Nava engineers to design, review, and build well-crafted software
- Collaborate with government partners and other contractors to architect, implement, and deploy new systems and improvements to existing systems
- Working in an agile manner to efficiently ship new features that meet user needs
- Write and maintain documentation for test plans, test cases, and test results
- Monitor and analyze test results, and report defects and performance issues to development teams
- Ensure compliance with security best practices in all testing activities
- Participating in an on-call rotation to support production systems and investigate issues when they occur
- Taking part in hiring activities (e.g., submitting referrals, conducting interviews, and attending interview debriefs), as needed
Requirements:
- Open to Backend engineers
- At least 5 years of experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team environment, preferably designing and building medium to large-scale on AWS
- Experience developing and maintaining test frameworks and scripts to validate server-side logic, data integrity, and API responses
- Experience with developing APIs in Java
- Proficiency in automated testing tools and frameworks including JUnit, Postman, Cypress, TestRail, StaticQube
- Strong understanding of APIs, databases, and server-side architectures
- Familiarity with security testing and data protection best practices
- Highly resourceful, reliable, and detail-oriented
- Ability to think strategically around trade-offs and short term vs. long term benefits
- An adaptive, empathetic, collaborative and positive mindset
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, technical and otherwise
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- Ability to meet any other requirements for government contracts for which candidates are hired
- Work authorization that doesn't require visa sponsorship, now or in the future
- May be subject to a government background check or security clearance, depending on the contract