What are the responsibilities and job description for the AWS Test Automation Engineer position at Centurion?
Centurion Consulting is looking for AWS Test Automation Engineer with an Active Secret clearance for a hybrid role in Huntsville, AL
Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor’s Degree and 8 years or more of experience; additional years of experience may be accepted in lieu of degree.
Program Description: This role supports the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services contract and currently has an opening for an AWS Test Automation Engineer.
Location: This position will be hybrid remote. Candidates will be required to work onsite as needed. Candidates need to be located in Huntsville, AL.
Responsibilities:
- We are seeking an experienced AWS Team Test Automation Engineer to support the U.S. Air Force Cloud One Architecture and Common Shared Services (AC2S) program. This role is responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining automated testing frameworks and pipelines across a large scale, mission critical AWS GovCloud and multi cloud DevSecOps environment.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing across build, deployment, and release stages.
- Develop automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security tests for cloud native applications and infrastructure.
- Collaborate with DevOps, platform engineering, and security teams to validate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments and configuration changes.
- Implement automated validation for containerized workloads and microservices deployed to Kubernetes environments.
- Support testing of AWS shared services including networking, IAM, logging, monitoring, and security tooling.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and backlog refinement, ensuring test automation aligns with delivery objectives.
- Analyze test results, identify defects and risks, and provide actionable feedback to engineering teams.
- Develop and maintain test documentation, test plans, and automation artifacts in accordance with Cloud One standards.
Required Skills:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8 years of professional experience in test automation, software testing, or quality engineering.
• Strong experience developing automated tests using Java and/or Python.
• Hands on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar.
• Experience testing applications and services deployed in AWS environments.
• Familiarity with AWS services such as IAM, EC2, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and related services.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code testing (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience testing containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Agile and DevSecOps practices in a federal or regulated environment.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship required.
Preferred Skills
• Experience supporting USAF Cloud One or other DoD enterprise cloud programs.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Selenium, PyTest, or similar.
• Familiarity with security testing, vulnerability scanning, and compliance validation in CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience validating STIG compliant configurations and secure cloud architectures.
• Exposure to multi cloud environments (Azure, GCP, OCI) in addition to AWS.
• AWS certifications (Developer, Solutions Architect, or DevOps Engineer).
• CompTIA Security or equivalent DoD 8570/8140 certification.