Automated Test Engineer
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
High value due to strong salary potential, involved work in critical defense technology, and opportunities for professional advancement.
- Salary range: $82.47-$87.47/hour
- Significant role in defense technology
- Opportunity for continuous professional development
Pros
- Attractive salary ($82.47-$87.47/hour) for highly skilled role
- Involvement in defense and space projects offers job significance
- Opportunity for continuous improvement and learning in advanced technologies
Cons
- Limited geographic flexibility due to security requirements
- High level of experience (8+ years) might exclude newer professionals
- Intensive work environment due to high stakes in projects
Who it's for
Senior / Expert • Full-time, office-based role
Good fit
- Senior I&T engineers with strong software backgrounds
- Professionals interested in defense and aerospace projects
- Collaborative individuals excited about agile methodologies
Not recommended for
- Individuals with less than 8 years of experience
- Those not interested in the defense sector
- Candidates who prefer remote work
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
Automated Test Engineer - Space Force
Scottsdale, AZ
Contract Position
Pay Estimated: $82.47-$87.47/Hour
This estimate represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors, (geographical location, etc.)
As a Space Force Golden Dome Automated Test Engineer, you’ll be a member of a cross-functional team responsible for building software and platforms that support our customers’ most important missions in the Space and Intelligence domains.
The ideal candidate is an I&T engineer with a strong software background and experience in large-scale solution programs. We highly recommend applying if you have any of the following job experience: working as an I&T Engineer on a complex software system. Or is someone who understands DOD domain/programs well, has a demonstrated capability to think at a Systems Level, and has a growth mindset. Space domain experience preferred.
Qualifications
- Design, build, integrate, test, deploy, and improve software services and platforms within a cross-functional agile team
- Work closely with the engineering leadership to ensure quality is built in early and is testable
- Develop and participate in the QA/test approach, methodology, and process for Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery.
- Delivery (CI/CD) environment
- Test applications through automated and manual back-end functions, as well as through UI
- Qualify all new features by testing on supported platforms and configurations
- Implement, execut,e and troubleshoot automated tests during the sprint cycles
- Verify installations with acceptance tests, track bugs, and participate in development meetings
- Apply the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products
- Support and develop our technical culture by being engaged, intellectually curious, friendly, motivated to solve complex problems, and inspired to deliver superior user-centered software solutions
- Participate in internal reviews of software components and systems
Requirements and Experience:
- Requires a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Mathematics field
- 8+ years of job-related experience, or a Master's degree plus 6 years of job-related experience
- Due to the nature of work performed within our facilities, U.S. citizenship is required.
- Deep knowledge of test methodologies, writing I&T plans, creating test cases, and debugging
- Working knowledge of application deployment tools such as Ansible
- Experience with DevSecOps and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Gitlab Runner
- Experience with Junit-Mockito, Apache HTTPD Server, and Spring Boot
- Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux Environments
- Expertise in Test Automation using Selenium, Test Complete, Cucumber, Apache JMeter, or similar tools
- Familiarity with Cloud Computing and IaaS environments such as the Red Hat Open Stack Platform (RHOSP), Microsoft Azure, or Amazon Web Services
- Familiarity with Container technologies such as Docker and/or Orchestration technologies such as Rancher/Kubernetes
Other Beneficial experience
- Familiarity with multiple DevSecOps tool chains
- Experience using Agile methodologies
- Detailed and fully proficient knowledge of technology trends and champions new ideas, and product and process improvements
- Memory and CPU profiling
- Experience building large-scale mission-critical applications
- Experience with distributed systems
- Information visualization
Moseley Technical Services, Inc. is an AA/EEO/Veterans/Disabled Employer.
Still have questions? Reach out to
Brian- (Phone) (256) 213-1261 (Email) brian.videtic@moseleytechnical.com
What to Expect
- Applicants selected for employment will be required to pass a pre-employment drug screening and background investigation which may include education, criminal and work history verifications.
- Accepted applicants will have the opportunity to be eligible for benefits, including medical and supplemental insurance and a 401K. Appreciation and gratitude for employees is a hallmark of organizations with low turnover.
- Final postion level and pay will be based on experience.
Resources
- To apply, send resume to: resumes@moseleytechnical.com
- For more active job openings: https://careers.moseleytechnical.com/jobs
- For more information about Moseley visit: http://www.moseleytechnical.com/about-us/
Moseley Technical Services, Inc. (Moseley) was incorporated in 1994 to provide engineering and professional services to the aerospace/defense, manufacturing, government, and commercial industries. Our Mission is to deliver superior service to our customers and employees. We have been successful in our vision by building long-term relationships with customers and employees through integrity, transparency, and appreciation.
We stand by our 30 year-old commitment of “World Class Service. World Class Company.”
