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# Software Test Engineer

- **Company:** Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
- **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $86,800.0 - $198,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Unix, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Linux, Python (Programming Language), Log Analysis, Systems Development Life Cycle, E2e Testing, SoapUI, Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Postman, Gitlab, Legacy Systems, Jenkins
- **Published:** August 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.localjobnetwork.com/apply/add/88172862/1

## About the Role

* 5+ years of experience with manual and automation software testing
 * Experience with test planning, execution, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
 * Experience with Linux or UNIX environments and troubleshooting system or data issues
 * Knowledge of SDLC or STLC, and Agile methodologies
 * Ability to analyze requirements, develop test scenarios, and document results
 * Ability to work effectively in cross-functional, fast-paced environments
 * TS/SCI clearance
 * HS diploma or GED
 * Ability to obtain a Security+ CE, SSCP, CCNA-Security, or GSEC Certification within 6 months of hire date

Nice If You Have:

 * Experience with Postman, SoapUI, SQL, and log analysis
 * Experience with Zephyr, Jira, and Confluence
 * Experience with GitLab, Java, Python, JavaScript, and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Azure DevOps
 * Experience with the Cloud, including AWS, Azure, or GCP
 * Knowledge of government contracting environments
 * Possession of excellent communication, organizational, and analytical skills
 * Bachelor's degree

## Description

At a certain point, experience-based system design can start to look like clairvoyance. When you've developed so many systems that you can not only orchestrate the best solution for any technology-based challenge, but you can also anticipate and preempt future issues, you're a solutions architect.

You've evolved your skills into strategy through a long path of software development accomplishments and the curiosity to understand how all the pieces of an IT ecosystem fit together. Are you ready to use your combination of knowledge, skill, and experience to tackle the toughest challenges in the Intelligence Community?

As a solutions architect on our team, you'll translate your customer's IT needs and future goals into a plan by crafting design specifications, requirements, scripts, and test cases. Through your leadership, we'll help transform the way the Intelligence Community uses technology, including cloud migration, integrating advanced technology, and modernizing legacy systems. What do you do next in a career where you've reached this level? You mentor the next set of developers to help them grow into tomorrow's solutions architects.

Join us and build the future of technology in the Intelligence Community for the better.


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