[Hiring] Test Engineer @Fearless

Role Description

We are seeking a Test Engineer as part of our Consultant, Engineering & Technical Services career path to ensure the quality and reliability of a large-scale federal enterprise data platform. This opportunity supports a major federal agency's modernization initiative focused on building and operating a secure, cloud-native data platform that enables scalable, governed data services across the agency. The Test Engineer will validate platform functionality, support release readiness, and ensure accessibility compliance across the shared technology foundation that powers data-driven decision-making agency-wide. This is a fully remote role.

At Fearless, this Consultant collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, secure, and maintainable systems across all stages of the software and data lifecycle. This role is instrumental in delivering secure, efficient, and scalable solutions that directly impact the success of projects, teams, and organizational goals. This role will possess and/or develop the skills to be able to span the domains of software development, data engineering, infrastructure automation, information assurance, and AI/ML integration at a practical application level of proficiency. This Consultant role will work on projects that allow them to contribute across the entire technology stack—software, infrastructure, data, AI, and security—to ensure quality, speed, and innovation in delivery.

Responsibilities

• Execute functional, regression, and integration testing to validate platform features and data services.
• Perform API testing to verify interfaces between platform components and downstream systems.
• Support release readiness activities by validating deployments and confirming platform stability before go-live.
• Verify accessibility compliance with Section 508 standards across platform interfaces and user-facing tools.
• Validate data pipelines, integrations, and platform services to ensure data accuracy, reliability, and end-to-end functionality.
• Support automated testing and quality gates within CI/CD pipelines to improve release quality and delivery reliability.
• Track, document, and communicate defects using defect management systems to support resolution workflows.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts to increase test coverage and improve testing efficiency.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and stakeholder teams to clarify requirements, define acceptance criteria, and ensure quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Impact

• Collaborates with cross-functional teams.
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world-class services.
• Be reliable completing assigned objectives on time.
• Alert your teammates and supervisor immediately when you think a deliverable is at risk.
• Gather intelligence and listen to what your client, other people within the customer’s organization, and other contractors say about your project, and report back to your Fearless teammates and supervisor.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust clearance.
• Proven experience conducting functional and regression testing across complex software systems.
• Hands-on experience performing API testing and validating integrations between system components.
• Experience tracking and managing defects through resolution using defect management tools.
• Working knowledge of test automation frameworks and scripting to support automated testing workflows.
• Experience working within Agile software delivery teams and participating throughout the software development lifecycle.

Preferred Experience

• Experience testing cloud-native platforms or data engineering systems.
• Familiarity with accessibility testing tools and Section 508 validation techniques.
• Experience supporting the federal government, healthcare, or other highly regulated environments.

Skills and Competencies

• Analytical Thinking: The ability to observe and interpret information, break down complex problems into parts, identify patterns/relationships and draw logical conclusions to develop effective solutions.
• Synthetic Thinking: The ability to combine different ideas, information, or concepts to create a new, complex understanding or solution by integrating disparate elements into a new, meaningful whole.
• Adaptability: Comfort with change, flexibility in the face of shifting demands and resilience to setbacks.
• Ownership & Accountability: Committed to taking responsibility for outcomes, ensuring that all commitments are met with a focus on enhancing service delivery.
• Consultative Advising: Identifies and articulates client challenges, scopes projects and aligns recommendations to business goals and client expectations.
• Communicating with Influence: Capable of crafting and delivering clear, persuasive messages that integrate data insights and structured narratives, tailored to the strategic needs of diverse audiences to drive effective decision-making.
• Environmental Awareness: Maintains awareness of external dynamics, power structures within client environments as well as regulatory trends and contract requirements that influence service delivery.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or during meetings.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to client sites or company meetings, which may involve driving or flying.
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, email, and in-person, requiring clear speech, listening, and written communication skills.
• Ability to move within an office environment, including reaching for files, using office equipment, and occasional light lifting (up to 10 pounds).

Benefits

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules.
• 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions.
• Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents.
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage.
• 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting.
• Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA.
• Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave.
• Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave.
• Education, wellness, and tech allowances.
• Referral bonus: $6K–$12K for each successful referral.
• Pet insurance & discount plans.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage.
• Performance-Based Bonuses.