Manual Quality Assurance Analyst

Salary: $80-$115k plus 10-20% bonuses and full benefits

We are hiring for a Manual Quality Assurance Analyst in Arlington, VA. This role will need to sit onsite Monday- Thursday and work remotely on Fridays.

This role will be a key member of our growing and sizable product development team — working with the existing quality assurance team to ensure the timely and thorough testing of web applications. Working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, you will need to collaborate with managers, engineers, and other members of the Quality Assurance team to continually build, refine, and execute test plans. Utilizing manual and automated test methods you and the team will need to review web applications, as well as native Android and IOS applications. 

To be considered, candidates must be creative, passionate about process improvement, and strong technical ability in the following areas: 

  • A strong understanding of testing and development life cycle methodologies
  • Ability to take initiative, work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, high pressure environment
  • Thorough understanding of software development and significant exposure to Agile methodology
  • A strong attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
  • Work well with cross-functional organizations

What You Will Do In Your Role

  • Working collaboratively with developers, product managers, and other quality assurance professionals to verify new features, test bug fixes, and maintain test cases

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering or engineering or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years application testing experience; working knowledge of dynamic web-based environments
  • 2+ years working in an Agile environment 

What Will Put You Ahead

  • SQL and .NET experience
  • Configuration Management and deployment experience
Data Engineer (remote)

Salary: $125-$150k plus 15-20% bonuses and benefits

We are looking for a remote Data Engineer to work on our growing, dynamic Engineering team. We are seeking someone with a technical background who enjoys solving complex problems and has professional experience owning ETL processes. The Data Engineer will be primarily responsible for building out new pipeline components and maintaining existing ones for a complex technology stack that spans a variety of languages and frameworks.

The Engineering team is responsible for data health and quality in every step of the pipeline process, from initial ingestion to deployment and visualization. As a result, debugging can require a deep dive into several interfacing pieces of software, and on any given day a Data Engineer can expect to work on multiple components that perform very different functions.

You will be tasked with the following:

  • Manage, modify, and maintain our proprietary software responsible for data storage and transformation of data from a wide variety of sources and delivery methods
  • Design and build new components that scale to efficiently ingest, normalize, and process data from a growing number of different sources
  • Run distributed computing jobs using Databricks/Spark to prepare and transform terabytes of time-series and event data for modeling
  • Integrate external APIs into current products and utilize their data to streamline and add value to current offerings
  • Assist DevOps with optimization of company infrastructure

Qualifications & Skills

  • 2+ years of experience using Python 3 to leverage its strong data science libraries, including Pandas and Spark/Databricks
  • Strong in at least one other language other than Python; experience shell scripting, especially Bash
  • Proficient with different flavors of SQL, especially PostgreSQL, including understanding of under-the-hood concepts like indexing and analysis of query plans
  • Experience with automation of DevOps processes in cloud environment
  • Experience extracting data from, and pushing data to, a variety of sources including relational and non-relational databases, RESTful APIs, flat files, FTP servers, and distributed file systems
  • Experience with Agile / Scrum development methodologies
  • Experience with “XaaS” cloud services — we are an AWS shop but will consider candidates with similar experience on other cloud platforms
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, especially when explaining difficult technical concepts to people in non-technical roles
  • Strong analytical skills, especially when working with multiple large datasets

ETL Developer

We are hiring for a remote ETL Developer working with a government organization. This role will require a MBI clearance or Public Trust. This could be either a full time, permanent position or a contract role with a salary of $90K or $45/hr on 1099.

Responsibilities:

  • Solid ETL experience with Informatica PowerCenter development and related components technologies (ETL Designer, etc.)
  • Experience in creating, maintaining, and optimizing stored procedures, functions, inline SQL, and ETL processes
  • Familiarity with Informatica performance tuning of sources, mappings, targets, and sessions
  • Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle, specifically Agile, and able to independently participate in each phase
  • Experience working with Greenplum (PostgreSQL) and/or Oracle SQL/PLSQL
  • Previous experience in monitoring, supporting, and resolving issues for applications with technologies such as Informatica, Greenplum, etc.
  • Preferred: Previous government experience with active MBI clearance. Informatica developer certification.
  • 5+ Years of Experience
SQL Developer

We are hiring for a remote SQL Developer working with a government organization. This role will require a MBI clearance or Public Trust. This could be either a full time, permanent position or a contract role with a salary of $90K or $45/hr on 1099.

Responsibilities:

  • Experienced in PL/PGSQL, SQL code development, maintenance, and migration 
  • Experience in creating, maintaining, and optimizing stored procedures, functions, inline SQL, and ETL processes
  •  In depth knowledge of the PostgreSQL architecture and application data lifecycle management 
  • Knowledge of database design, query optimization, index management, integrity checks 
  • Familiarity with Software Development Life Cycle, specifically Agile, and able to independently participate in each phase
  • Previous experience in monitoring, supporting, and resolving issues for applications with Database technologies
  • Willing to work during Production maintenance hours & provide on call support
  • Preferred: experience in working with Greenplum (PostgreSQL) and Oracle SQL/PLSQL
  • Preferred: Previous government experience with active MBI clearance
Senior Software Developer (.NET)

Salary: $125-$175k plus 10-20% bonuses and full benefits

We are hiring for a .NET Senior Software Developer in Arlington, VA. We are able to consider fully remote employees depending on your experience level and ability to work independently. This is with a data and analytics organization. If working remotely, this individual would travel into the office 11 times per year which will be 100% employer covered.

Description

The Senior Software Developer will be an integral member of the development team and help build data driven web and mobile application systems. Creating a customer experience that is consistent across a product set that encompasses varying complex tasks, interactions, and user needs is challenging.

To be considered, candidates must be creative, passionate about process improvement, and have a strong technical ability in the following areas:

  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with experience interfacing directly with business end-users in design and requirements planning
  • Demonstrable ability to work as part of an integrated solution development team
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Candidates must demonstrate advanced technical writing skills through writing samples
  • Ability to manage tasks and timelines effectively
  • Interest to work with political clients

What You Will Do In Your Role

  • Serve as Senior Applications Developer to support multiple on-going projects as well as develop new customized applications.
  • Interact with product managers and scrum team members to determine project needs and translate those needs into robust, elegant solutions
  • Help identify the right blend of technologies to make our product successful
  • Help promote application and data management best practices on projects

The Experience You Will Bring

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Engineering
  • 5+ years’ experience developing web applications within enterprise architectures
  • 5+ years’ experience in Microsoft .NET Technologies and Framework
  • 5+ years’ experience in C#.NET, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS
  • 5+ years’ experience working with a RDBMS

What Will Put You Ahead

  • 5+ years’ experience developing web applications within enterprise architectures
  • Experience in production implementations of Microsoft .NET Core
  • Experience in production implementations of Angular
  • Experience with containerization
  • Experience in writing REST APIs