Senior Systems Engineer - Software Application Tester

Belay Technologies has been voted Baltimore Business Journal's (BBJ) Best Places to Work 2019, runner up in 2020 and a finalist in 2021!

Belay Technologies is seeking a Senior System Engineer (SE) to join our intel team. The SE shall write, execute and report test cases performed for web-based applications and create various regression testing scenarios to evaluate effectiveness, quality, and scalability performance of web-based tools used across the customer enterprise and across the broader Intelligence Community (IC). The SE shall will enable development teams to deploy quality products and support users by troubleshooting real-time use cases and help drive product improvement decisions in matters of national security. The SE shall with with our development and test teams, whom have built/created the following: A streamlined, collaborative User Interface (UI) that shares data across agencies within the IC; A UI that allows users to consolidate, organize, and reconcile and update data in real-time tabular, graphical, and map visualizations; A tool that allows analysts to quickly capture, document and access information.

Candidates should have the following qualifications:

• TS/SCI with polygraph is required.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university is required
  • OR Twelve (12) years of systems engineering and tester experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience with the following:
• Work as an individual contributor and in teams, communicate directions, and/or provide guidance to all levels of team testers, as required.
• Testing from web applications which use modern JavaScript front-end frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue) and/or backend run-time environment (Node.js).
• Testing applications interfacing with REST-based APIs/services.
• Software testing and troubleshooting of software issues for SIGINT systems using test-driven development frameworks .
• Experience testing applications for 508 compliance
• Full Systems Engineering Lifecyle (SELC) experience that includes seven (7) years or more of:
• Analyzing, translating, and managing user requirements and decompose into software requirements
• Participate in establishing and gaining approval of the definition of a system or component under development (requirements, designs, interfaces, test procedures, etc.) that provides a common reference point for hardware and software developers
• Developing simple data queries for existing or proposed databases or data repositories
• Software Integration (new and existing systems)
• Troubleshooting, debugging and defects correction.
• Creation and editing of software system documentation
• Assisting with development and execution of test procedures for software components

Candidates are required to have the following skills:

• Stay at the forefront of data visualization by staying current on trends, top tools and emerging technologies and recommend, advocate for, and implement solutions that are a fit.
• Be part of collaborative and diverse team of junior, senior and expert level developers and mission leaders allowing you to mentor and learn from others in multiple product teams.
• Provide direct test support to browser-based web applications written in JavaScript. Provide test support for REST APIs (or web services) between the web application and its related back-end data
• Unique opportunities to work with UI/UX designers who manage the design - look and feel - of the application, as well as Mission Outreach teams who provide direct user feedback for continuous product improvement.
• Review and test software components and gain experience developing comprehensive system, performance, and design plans.

Candidates are desired to have the following skills:

• Experience developing automated test scripts (e.g. Selenium, SoapUI, Katalon)
• Experience working with applications which use NoSQL (i.e. MongoDb, Elasticsearch), advanced key store (i.e. REDIS), and/or relational (i.e. Oracle, MySQL) databases.
• Experience with writing Linux based scripts to facilitate application integration using a one or more appropriate server-side languages (i.e. Shell, Python, etc.)
• Experience working in an Agile software development environment
• Experience managing software code using Git & MAVEN

Perks and Benefits:

• 8 weeks paid leave - 4 weeks of personal leave, 3 Yay! days, take off on your birthday,11 paid holidays and optional leave up to 6 days through Belay's volunteer program
• 10% matching in 401(k) contributions vested on day one
• $5,000 annual training/tuition
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• 100% company funded HSA
• Rich medical coverage (100% coinsurance)
• Dental coverage including orthodontia
• Up to $420,000 in life insurance, premiums 100% company funded
• Amazon Prime, gym reimbursement, monthly lunches, games and prizes
• Pet adoption program, generous referral bonus program, fun events, and more!

Belay Technologies is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business located in Columbia, Maryland (Baltimore/Washington area). Belay Technologies specializes in systems automation and full stack development. Belay Technologies provides leading technology and engineering solutions to the DoD, as well as state-of-the-art commercial products. We hire software engineers, web designers, test engineers, systems engineers, systems administrators, database engineers and other tech services. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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