# Software Engineer - Test and Quality

Position Description: Position Summary The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) is a prestigious research and development organization that plays a vital role in the study of the universe. Associated Universities, Inc. (AUI) is a nonprofit organization that manages and operates the NRAO under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. The Observatory is a hub for technological and scientific collaboration, operating state-of-the-art radio telescope facilities for use by the international scientific community. The Observatory has been instrumental in the study of black holes, galaxies, and the early universe. The NRAO develops and maintains software used by the astronomy community for proposing, planning, scheduling, and analyzing observations made with these telescopes. We are seeking a mid-level Software Engineer with strong software testing experience to join the Science User Applications Group (SUA). SUA builds some of the Observatory’s most visible user-facing software, including the NRAO Science Archive and the Science Proposal applications. You will help ensure that these applications are reliable, well tested, and easy to change with confidence.

- **Id**: 3882127
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/aui-software-engineer-test-and-quality>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T05:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T00:28:45Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6868
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 1848852
- **Name**: AUI
- **Domain**: aui.edu
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/aui-edu>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Dayforce

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 40
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 96588
- **Max**: 120000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 120000

## Technologies

- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Angular** — Optional: yes
- **Cypress** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Docker Compose** — Optional: yes
- **Docker Swarm** — Optional: yes
- **Java** — Optional: yes
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes
- **JUnit** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Playwright** — Optional: yes
- **Pytest** — Optional: yes
- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: yes
- **Rest API** — Optional: yes
- **Scrum** — Optional: yes
- **Selenium** — Optional: yes
- **SQLAlchemy** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes
- **Webpack** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 3
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:30:36Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 1
- **Expected fill days**: 40
- **Reasons**: conf:1, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 120000
- **Is top pay**: no

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