# QA Platform Engineer

**Company:** [Black Canyon Consulting](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/blackcanyonconsulting)
**Location:** Bethesda, MD
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Skills:** Python, JavaScript, Java, CI/CD, Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Kubernetes, Linux, GitOps, Prometheus, Grafana, Istio, Kafka, GitLab
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> 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.

## Job Description

## 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.

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