M9 Solutions is seeking a Senior Functional & Automation Tester to work remotely in support of a government contract for a client located in Washington, DC. An active Public Trust clearance is required.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Work Authorization: US Citizenship is required.
• An active Public Trust level clearance is required. 
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent practical experience.
• Minimum 5 -10 years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or software development with significant testing/automation responsibilities.
• Demonstrated experience owning test strategy and automation for complex, distributed, or cloud-based systems.
• Strong experience leading and executing functional testing and test automation across the software development lifecycle.
• Proven ability to define and implement an effective test strategy for distributed/cloud applications, including regression planning and release readiness.
• Experience with automated testing tools for unit, API, and user interface testing; familiarity with test-driven development (TDD) concepts and automation-first approaches.
• Experience working in CI/CD pipeline environments using source code management and build/deployment tooling (for example: GitLab, Jenkins) within a DevSecOps/SecDevOps culture.
• Working knowledge of secure coding and secure engineering expectations, including risk identification and validation of security controls.
• Experience validating message/event-driven systems, including Kafka-based workflows and asynchronous processing behaviors.
• Experience testing API-centric architectures such as microservices and serverless applications, including contract validation and integration testing.
• Cloud and data pipeline familiarity, including one or more of the following: Dataflow, Pub/Sub, Redis.
• Strong troubleshooting skills, including analyzing logs/metrics/traces, isolating failures across components, and supporting defect triage.
• Solid technical fluency in one or more languages used for test automation and validation, such as Java, Python, SQL, and/or JavaScript (and familiarity with modern web stacks such as React is a plus).
• Knowledge of performance and reliability concepts, including performance tuning, multi-threading awareness, and validation of high observability principles.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to explain quality risks and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Experience working in Agile delivery teams and applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices.
• Familiarity with change/configuration management and lifecycle tooling (for example: VersionOne, ServiceNow) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (for example: Docker, Kubernetes), including security and environment considerations.
• Experience with Kubernetes security practices and testing in containerized production-like environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development/testing tools such as OpenCode, Claude Code, and Gemini Vertex AI to improve efficiency in test creation and analysis (within approved governance).
• Experience producing test evidence and documentation suitable for audit or compliance reviews.

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