Overview:

The Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) is the nonprofit, applied research division of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). Founded in 1934 as the Engineering Experiment Station, GTRI has grown to more than 2,900 employees, supporting eight laboratories in over 20 locations around the country and performing more than $940 million of problem-solving research annually for government and industry. GTRI's renowned researchers combine science, engineering, economics, policy, and technical expertise to solve complex problems for the U.S. federal government, state, and industry.   

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Project/Unit Description

Georgia Tech Research Institute's Cybersecurity, Information Protection, and Hardware Evaluation Research(CIPHER) Laboratory is currently seeking an information security researcher whose primary skills will be in security and networking for secure systems for on-going and new research. Candidates must enjoy working with open source software and cutting-edge technologies while focusing on the security of the system. Candidates will contribute to sponsored research projects and have an opportunity to interact with other scientists and engineers.

Job Purpose

The Automated Test Engineer develops automated testing solutions for simple to complex systems, including mixed environments incorporating hardware-in-the-loop testing. The Automated Test Engineer also develops and enhances automation frameworks, builds testing routines, and designs scripts that operate within those frameworks. In doing so, the Automated Test Engineer uses software scripting languages such as Java, JavaScript, C#, and Python. The Automated Test Engineer gains understanding of a target platform so they can devise the optimal testing approach and configurations, constructs automation which continuously identifies issues or errors, and directs developers to research likely or potential causes of found issues. In summary, the Automated Test Engineer performs the role of a test engineer with additional responsibilities including software development, integration, and debugging of system outputs.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply system engineering and test engineering principles to establish automated test infrastructures required to validate and verify product requirements
• Develop software scripts to implement User Interface (UI) testing, and/or system testing
• Convert manual test procedures into automated test procedures using automated test infrastructure
• Contribute to technical reports and presentations

Additional Responsibilities

Software Integration and Test play a role in integrating hardware and software environments to verify the complete system's behavior. Laboratory testing conducting on prototypes and/or complete hardware and software builds. It requires integration to evaluate the software compliance with its specified interfaces,functional and algorithm requirements, and performance. Software Integration and Testing will validate the interactions between the modules of a software system. It requires the verification of the software requirements specified in the Software Requirements Specification, Capability Document, or the SoftwareDesign Document. SEAD utilizes productive modern (Agile) and industry proven software development processes and environments.

The candidate will be an active engineering participant on the project team, perform integration and test tasks independently, and provide developed and tested software capabilities.

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Experience with Linux, UNIX or Windows
• Knowledgeable in version control software such as GIT
• Experience successfully working with Developers, Architects, and Product Owners to give options for potential solutions
• Experience with writing and executing manual tests.
• Facilitate the use of automated testing at the unit, functional, integration, and system testing level
• Ability to write web application performance testing
• Ability to write JavaScript automated tests
• Proficiency in test automation tool: Selenium

Preferred Qualifications

• Active Top Secret Clearance
• Experience with collaboration tools: JIRA, Confluence, Slack, Gitlab
• Demonstrates ability to break down ambiguous, complex problems and create high- quality, innovative, and clean technical solutions
• Organizational and planning skills with the ability to prioritize multiple, competing priorities
• Ability to see all tasks through to completion, consistently, with a high attention to detail
• A continual learner that stays up-to-date on the latest technologies
• Able to work independently or with little to no direction
• Decisive decision maker
• Experience with security testing and the RMF/Accreditation and Authorization process
• CISSP certification

Travel Requirements

<10% travel

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section 3.2.1 of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 0 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field of study

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.

Benefits at GTRI

Comprehensive information on currently offered GTRI benefits, including Health & Welfare, Retirement Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Time Off, and Professional Development, can be found through this link: https://benefits.hr.gatech.edu/.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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