Testing & Assurance Engineer

Responsibilities & Qualifications

The Testing & Assurance Engineer will design and execute comprehensive verification, validation, and assurance workflows to ensure agentic AI systems are reliable, compliant, and ready for secure deployment in NGA CORE and other National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) environments. This role focuses on validating system performance and compliance through benchmark, regression testing, component verification, and simliar. Specific responsibilities include

• Design and maintain benchmark datasets and test scenarios to validate agentic AI system behavior under real-world conditions.
• Track performance metrics over time to detect accuracy drops, bias emergence, or unintended behavior.
• Develop and execute detailed component-level test plans for individual models, agents, data pipelines, and microservices.
• Verify compliance with interface contracts (APIs, schemas, protocols) and system requirements prior to release.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins) to enable early defect detection.

• Produce validation artifacts, test results, and documentation required for Authority to Operate (ATO) packages and re-accreditation reviews.

• Work closely with AI/ML engineers, agentic systems engineers, and DevSecOps teams to incorporate testability into system design.

• Provide feedback and recommendations to improve reliability, safety, and mission-alignment of the agentic AI platform.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; additional years of experience may be substituted.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in software/system testing, validation, and assurance of AI/ML systems.
• Strong proficiency in Python for building automated test suites, analysis tools, and reporting frameworks.
• Experience designing regression and performance tests for distributed microservice systems.
• Familiarity with AI/ML model evaluation, scoring metrics, and explainability methods.
• Knowledge of software assurance, IV&V, and compliance processes in secure environments.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Testing & QA, or a related field.
• Experience with:
  • Model and agentic AI assurance frameworks, benchmark design, and test harness development.
  • Operating in NGA CORE or other NGA/Intelligence Community (IC) secure data environments.
  • Contributing to or leveraging open-source testing frameworks or model governance tools.
  • Familiarity with ATO/re-accreditation pipelines, automated compliance validation, and RMF/NIST 800-53 security controls.
• Active TS/SCI clearance (or ability to obtain one).

Overview

We are seeking a Testing & Assurance Engineer to support National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts. This engineer will play an important role helping to create technical solutions for multiple AI challenges.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays.

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Additional Job Information

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

• Location: Reston, VA and/or remote. Occasional travel within the National Capital Region (NCR)
• Type of environment: Varies
• Noise level: Low
• Work schedule: “Normal work hours” constitute on average 8 hours a day, 40 hours per week (excluding breaks and meal periods) within standard operational hours occurring 0600-1800, Monday-Friday, excluding Federal holidays. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
• Amount of Travel: 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle, feel, touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand, walk, sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE

U.S Citizenship

Clearance requirement: TS/CI with CI Poly

OTHER INFORMATION

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal, state, and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because of race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as “protected status”). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities, participation in all company-sponsored activities, and all employment actions such as promotions, compensation, benefits, and termination of employment. 

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