QA Platform Engineer
Black Canyon Consulting7 months ago
Bethesda, MD, USAIntern / Entry Level / Mid Level / Senior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain compliance pipelines with built-in quality gates.
- Automatically gather enterprise-wide application-quality metrics.
- Provide QA services on a project basis.
- Implement frameworks and utilities supporting deployment, testing, and monitoring.
- Develop and continuously improve DevSecOps, DataOps, and observability platforms, common tools, and libraries.
- Help developers adopt platforms, tools, architectural patterns, and best practices while supporting application security compliance.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science in a STEM field such as engineering, computer science, mathematics, or physics, or equivalent industry experience in systems engineering.
- Proven software development skills using at least one modern programming language.
- Experience or expertise with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Java is valued; familiarity with additional listed languages is helpful.
- Experience automating tests with Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright is valued.
- Adequate Linux command-line skills are required; system administration-level skills are a bonus.
- Familiarity with CI/CD, web technologies, build tools, RPC frameworks, coding and architecture design patterns, or the listed platform and observability technologies is helpful but not required.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k) plan with employer contribution.
- Paid holidays and vacation.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Full-time position with onsite/remote options in Bethesda, Maryland and/or remote.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaApache SparkApache StormC++CypressDatadogElasticsearchGoGrafanaInfluxDBIstioJavaJavaScriptKibanaKotlinKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPrometheusPythonRabbitMQRustScalaSeleniumTeamCityTypeScript
About Black Canyon Consulting
Black Canyon Consulting is a privately held, woman-owned IT and program management services firm that delivers contract support to U.S. federal research and health agencies. The company provides systems engineering, custom software, bioinformatics, and project management through government contracts and IDIQ vehicles; it was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia. Recent roles support the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the NIH/NLM.