Appian Consultant
$115,000–$125,000 year
HybridSterling, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Design, configure, and enhance Appian applications using SAIL interfaces, Process Models, and Data Fabric while supporting integrations via REST APIs and SOAP services. Translate business requirements into maintainable solutions and execute functional, integration, regression, and performance testing against user stories and acceptance criteria. Develop and maintain automated regression test scripts, reusable test suites, and documentation to enforce quality gates before production deployment. Collaborate with developers, technical leads, and stakeholders in two-week Scrum sprints managed through Jira to reproduce defects, validate fixes, and participate in peer reviews. Support production troubleshooting, incident investigation, and release activities including UAT and platform upgrades. This hybrid role supports a mission-critical federal environment with occasional travel, requiring availability for core business hours and adherence to security processing requirements.
Required Qualifications
- U.S. Citizenship is preferred due to the federal customer environment.
- Must be eligible to successfully complete the required NACI/Public Trust security processing before accessing federal information systems. Non-U.S. citizens must be able to satisfy applicable federal residency, background, and additional security screening requirements.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States and be able to perform all work within the United States.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
- 2–4+ years of hands-on Appian experience in application development, implementation, sustainment, testing, or a combination of these areas.
- Solid hands-on knowledge of core Appian capabilities, including SAIL interfaces, Process Models, Record Types, Expression Rules, Decision Rules, Data Types, and Appian Data Fabric.
- Experience developing, configuring, enhancing, or troubleshooting Appian applications.
- Experience performing functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing of enterprise applications.
- Experience creating structured test cases based on user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, and business rules.
- Experience identifying, documenting, reproducing, and validating software defects.
- Working knowledge of REST APIs, SOAP services, or other enterprise integration technologies.
- Working knowledge of relational data concepts, data validation, and basic SQL.
- Familiarity with automated software testing concepts and the ability to develop or maintain automated test scripts.
- Familiarity with application performance testing concepts and the ability to assist with performance or load-testing activities.
- Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
- Experience with Jira and source-control or delivery tools such as Git, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
- Understanding of software development lifecycle practices, release management, and quality gates.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to investigate the underlying cause of an application issue rather than simply document the symptom.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with developers, analysts, architects, and customer stakeholders.
Desired Qualifications
- Appian Certified Associate Developer or higher Appian certification.
- Appian Certified Senior Developer certification or equivalent hands-on Appian experience.
- Experience with Appian-specific automated testing capabilities or automation frameworks used to test Appian applications.
- Experience with one or more test automation tools or frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, or comparable technologies.
- Experience with API testing tools such as Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or similar tools.
- Experience with performance/load-testing tools such as JMeter, LoadRunner, or comparable technologies.
- Experience building or maintaining automated regression suites as part of a CI/CD pipeline.
- Experience with Appian Health Check, application logs, performance diagnostics, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience supporting regression testing for Appian platform upgrades and hotfixes.
- Experience with Section 508 / WCAG accessibility testing, including automated accessibility scanning, keyboard-navigation testing, or screen-reader validation.
- Familiarity with application security testing, role-based access controls, MFA, least-privilege principles, and vulnerability remediation.
- Experience supporting production applications with defined incident priorities, response targets, and Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Prior experience supporting Federal Government or public-sector customers.
- Experience working with applications that process sensitive information or Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
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