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Job Title: Systems Engineer (Test Tool Development and Automation)
Company Name: KBR
Location: Springfield, VA United States
Position Type: Full Time
Post Date: 01/23/2026
Expire Date: 02/22/2026
Job Categories: Computers, Software, Government and Policy, Information Technology
Job Description
Systems Engineer (Test Tool Development and Automation)

Title:

Systems Engineer (Test Tool Development and Automation)

Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!

KBRs National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the countrys most critical role protecting our national security.

Why Join Us?

  • Innovative Projects: KBRs work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.

  • Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.

  • Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

This is a contingent position based upon contract award.

KBR is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to support government customers in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The Systems Engineer for Test Tool Development and Automation provides the expertise and experience of a Systems Engineer to establish and maintain a development environment, incorporating industry standards and best practices, to enable management of development epics and support an agile sprint development schedule. This individual will also provide support, maintenance, and continued updates of the business process applications in use by the customer, while pursuing epics to consolidate disparate business processes into a single, cloud based capability.

Responsibilities:

  • Apply industry standards and best practices for managing test tool and software development, including: discrepancy tracking, reporting, and resolution.

  • Utilize industry best practices for dev, test, staging and production environments to include (but not limited to):

    • Infrastructure as Code

    • Platform as a Service Construct

    • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deploymen (Delivery) Tools for development, deployment and configuration management of the architecture

    • Design for failure architecture approach

    • Containerization of Services where possible

    • Continuous Monitoring and Inspection of health and compliance to policy of Services/Environments

  • Establish and maintain an agile sprint development environment in support of customer web tools, and test tool development and maintenance; adhere to agile processes and methodologies.

  • Adhere to prescribed processes and guidelines for web/tool development workstations and the development environment to include: requesting approval for software download/installation, software configuration, and software version control.

  • Manage and maintain content for the customer web presence on multiple security domains to include site design, content updates, collecting web metrics, and supporting access by external customers.

  • Perform physical installation, customization, support, maintenance, license updates, configurations, and monitoring of business process applications that are part of the internal support environment.

  • Develop a consolidated business process tool, integrating and replacing the current project management capabilities; provide installation, customization, support, maintenance, license updates, and monitoring of the consolidated business tool after implementation.

  • Provide automated and manual test management capabilities to identify, standardize and import test objectives, test procedures, test plans, test documentation, releases and cycles structure, and design of overall and low level process flows.

  • Provide database design, development and maintenance (Oracle, PostGRSQL, or other as specified) for Test related web and tools projects.

  • Attend and support customer planning events and technical meetings to include Vendor product reviews and daily startup and wrap-up meetings.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative science field.

  • Over 8 years of relevant experience related to test automation engineering.

  • Hands-on Linux experience

  • Experience with Agile Software Development

  • Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps, DevSecOps, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

  • Hands-on experience with Selenium automated test tool or similar products

  • Ability to plan and conduct security testing

  • Meaningful and relevant experience in developing test procedures

  • Experience with systems engineering and configuration management processes - Ability to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations

  • Experience with requirements development and management

  • Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following program languages: Perl, Ruby, Python, and/or JavaScript

  • Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, NOSQL, etc.

  • Experience and/or familiarity with automated test tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Git, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Junit, JMeter, RSpec, and/or Cucumber

  • Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques.

Desired Education, Experience, & Skills:

  • Master's degree in Engineering, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Information Science, Business, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related quantitative science field.

Security Clearance Requirements: Active TS/SCI (with poly preferred)

Belong, Connect and Grow at KBR

At KBR, we are passionate about our people and our Zero Harm culture. These inform all that we do and are at the heart of our commitment to, and ongoing journey toward being a People First company. That commitment is central to our team of teams philosophy and fosters an environment where everyone can Belong, Connect and Grow. We Deliver Together.

KBR is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

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