District Partners is supporting a federal program seeking a Performance Test Engineer with deep Python development experience. This is a multi-year engagement in a mission-critical environment, working onsite in Ashburn to start. The team values dependable engineers who communicate well, understand modern automation patterns, and can operate in a fast-moving Agile setting. Once established, hybrid flexibility is available.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain Python-based test automation for complex data and API workflows
• Develop and execute automation test scripts across regression, functional, and system testing
• Generate test data and perform validation across JSON, XML, and data interfaces
• Create SQL or Unix scripts for data generation and test harness automation
• Verify results, produce test summaries, and manage defects from discovery through resolution
• Support performance and integration testing across distributed systems
• Partner with users and technical teams; document user stories and defects in JIRA
• Work within modern IDEs (IntelliJ, Eclipse, etc.) to support development and testing workflows

What You'll Have:

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field
• 9+ years of technical experience within test automation or software engineering
• Strong hands-on Python 3 development experience (core requirement)
• Java 8+; Spring Boot
• Selenium; Rest Assured for API/web service automation
• JavaScript
• Experience with UI automation tools (Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Jest, etc.)
• Ability to build automation frameworks from scratch
• Experience automating test data generation for regression suites
• Oracle/Postgres; PL/SQL
• AWS exposure is beneficial

Desired Skills:

• Docker
• Jenkins
• GitLab
• Kubernetes
• Playwright
• Prior software development experience (Python or Java)

Location: Ashburn, VA (Onsite 5 days a week to start; hybrid available after ramp-up)

Clearance: Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Citizenship: US Citizen

Employment Type: Target 55hr

Duration: Multi-year, long-term contract