- Work Full Time
Journeyman Test Engineer
- Springfield, Virginia
- hr@unitycompass.com
- Job Type: On-site
- Pay Range: $75,000 -$150,000
- Clearance Required: Top Secret with SCI eligibility
- I'm looking for a mid-level tester with a salary around $140k to $150k. Location: Springfield VA. Clearance: TS with SCI eligible. Type: Full-time.
Job Overview:
We’re seeking a skilled Journeyman Engineer who thrives on solving complex problems and improving processes in a collaborative, DevOps-driven environment. You’ll contribute to testing and evaluation (T&E) efforts for cloud-based and software-intensive systems—helping ensure reliability, scalability, and performance across AWS, DevOps, and Java/Python environments.
Primary Responsibilities:
Analyze system requirements, concepts of operations, and acquisition plans to developtest strategies, procedures, and reports.
Plan and execute test events—collecting, analyzing, and interpreting results to ensure system readiness.
Support development of T&E documentation including Test & Evaluation Master Plans, Event Test Plans, Readiness Assessments, and Reports.
Collaborate with other test organizations tointegrate T&E programs across functional and technical domains.
Provide specialized testing capabilities tailored to system maturity, performance, and risk.
Maintain transparency on progress, blockers, and results to stakeholders and leadership.
Execute automated and manual tests; confirm and validate system results.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree; or Associate’s degree plus 4 years of experience; or minimum 6 years of related experience.
Demonstrated ability to follow established processes and perform self-guided work.
Seeks guidance only for new or undefined tasks.
Strong understanding of AWS cloud services, DevOps practices, and Java/Python development.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and automated testing frameworks.
Proactive team contributor; able to lead tasks and mentor junior staff over time.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum environments.
- Experience integrating testing across multi-cloud or hybrid systems.
- Solid communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical findings.
| Primary Skill / Tool | Experience (Years) |
| AWS (EC2, IAM, S3, CloudWatch) | |
| Python | |
| Java | |
| Selenium (Automation) | |
| pytest / JUnit | |
| CI/CD Pipelines (Jenkins / GitLab CI) | |
| Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation) | |
| Docker | |
| Kubernetes | |
| Functional & Integration Testing |