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Black Canyon ConsultingBlack Canyon ConsultingBethesda, MD

QA Platform Engineer

Develops and maintains QA platforms, compliance pipelines, and automated testing frameworks for NCBI's DevSecOps and observability tools. Requires strong coding in Python/JavaScript/Java, CI/CD expertise, and Linux skills in a containerized Kubernetes environment.

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HybridQA Engineering

About the role

Duties & Responsibilities

Platforms team:

  • Develops and continuously improves DevSecOps, DataOps, and Observability platforms.
  • Develops and maintains common tools and libraries.
  • Evaluates new technologies and practices.
  • Helps NCBI developers with adoption of platforms, tools, architectural patterns and best practices.
  • Ensures compliance with Federal application security regulations and standards by providing automated solutions and compliance pipelines.
  • Practices Agile development and continuous improvement.

Compliance and QA team:

  • Build and maintain compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates.
  • Continuously automatically gather metrics for application quality for the enterprise-wide portfolio of applications.
  • Provide QA services on a project basis.

Requirements

  • Proven software development skills using modern computing languages such as Python, JavaScript, and Java.
  • Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
  • Automating tests (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright).
  • Implement frameworks and utilities to support deployment, testing, and monitoring.
  • Strong coding skills in at least one programming language (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, Kotlin, Scala, Golang, Rust).
  • Adequate Linux command-line skills (sysadmin-level skills a bonus).
  • Familiarity with build tools and various web, RPC and other frameworks (bonus).
  • Experience with design patterns in coding and architecture (bonus).

Helpful but not required:

  • OpenShift, Anthos, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Hashicorp Nomad.
  • Observability tools: Prometheus, EFK (ElasticSearch, fluentd, Kibana), TIGK (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana, Kapacitor), DataDog, Sensu, Jaeger, Sentry, OpsGenie, PagerDuty.
  • Service mesh: Istio, Linkerd.
  • Messaging: Kafka, Apache Pulsar, RabbitMQ, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Flume, Apache Storm, Apache Spark Streaming, Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
  • Git tools: GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket, Teamcity, Artifactory.
  • Secret management: Hashicorp Vault, CyberArk, Azure Key Vault, Google Cloud Secret Manager.

Educational Requirements: B.S. in a STEM field (Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics) or equivalent industry experience in Systems Engineering.

Skills

PythonJavaScriptJavaCI/CDSeleniumCypressPlaywrightKubernetesLinuxGitOpsPrometheusGrafanaIstioKafkaGitLab

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