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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Test Engineer - **Company:** J5 Consulting - **Location:** United States - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), JavaScript (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Software Quality, Software Debugging, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Github, JSON, Apache JMeter, Junit, Python (Programming Language), CURL, Load Testing, Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Regression Testing, Software Reliability Testing, Selenium, Test Case, Testng, TypeScript, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Postman, Delivery Pipeline, Cypress (Programming Language), Gatling, Git, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, Pytest, Containerization, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Playwright, Data Management, Functional Programming, Cloudwatch, Api Gateway, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Terraform, Splunk, Software Version Control, Docker, Jenkins, Microservices - **Published:** June 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=455ddee02ec97ea1 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Version control systems?, * Demonstrated experience with Agile/Scrum development methodologies in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment. * Demonstrated experience working effectively in high-performing, cross-functional teams with multiple concurrent projects. * Demonstrated experience working directly with stakeholders to gather requirements, understand needs, and translate them into technical solutions with minimal oversight. * Demonstrated experience in self-directed work with a strong ownership mentality and commitment to code quality, testing, and documentation. * Demonstrated experience context-switching between projects and systems as priorities demand. * Test Engineering * Demonstrated experience testing applications deployed on AWS (at least 1-2 major services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS/EKS, or CloudFront). * Demonstrated experience with strong knowledge of QA fundamentals: test planning, test case design, defect lifecycle, regression testing, risk-based testing. * Demonstrated experience with test automation experience using one or more frameworks/languages (e.g., Python + pytest, Java + JUnit/TestNG, JavaScript/TypeScript + Playwright/Cypress/Selenium). * Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild). * Demonstrated experience with version control (Git) and standard SDLC practices (Agile/Scrum). * Demonstrated experience with strong defect isolation and debugging skills; can collaborate with developers/DevOps to reproduce issues and validate fixes. Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience: * Test Engineering * Demonstrated experience testing distributed systems/microservices, including asynchronous/event-driven flows (e.g., SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Kinesis). * Demonstrated experience with Infrastructure-as-Code exposure (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS or CDK) and ability to validate deployments or config changes. * Demonstrated experience with container platforms and orchestration (Docker, ECS, or EKS/Kubernetes) and testing containerized workloads. * Demonstrated experience testing APIs (REST/JSON) using tools such as Postman, curl, or similar; ability to validate status codes, payloads, headers, auth, and error handling. * Demonstrated experience with logging or monitoring for troubleshooting test failures (e.g., CloudWatch logs/metrics; or Splunk/ELK). * Demonstrated performance and reliability testing experience (load/stress/soak) using tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust; familiarity with scaling behaviors in AWS. * Demonstrated experience with test data management in cloud environments (synthetic data, masking, seeding, or ephemeral environments). * Demonstrated AWS certification (Cloud Practitioner, Developer Associate, SysOps Associate, or DevOps Engineer). * Demonstrated experience in complex, high security, regulated environments. * Demonstrated experience with excellent written and verbal communication skills with both technical and non-technical audiences., * The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph. ## Related Videos - [Continuous testing - run automated tests for every change!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/190-continuous-testing-run-automated-tests-for-every-change) - [Tips and Tricks for Working with JSON](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1229-tips-and-tricks-for-working-with-json) - [Don’t Insert Crazy! 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