Software Test Engineer

Description

Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a Software Test Engineer to help with automated testing of our state-of-the-art software solutions delivered to our government customers. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an outstanding software engineering team and will support the team’s software deployed into our customers' classified networks. Our engineers are at the forefront of defining and building solutions to address the challenges faced by our end users, applying a go-fast, agile approach driven by small teams that rely on and value each team member's contributions.

As a Software Test Engineer
, you’ll participate in planning, designing and executing end-to-end automated testing in support of the Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) of our products to customers worldwide. You’ll identify opportunities to increase the level of automated testing of our customer products and solutions, plan and execute strategies to achieve test automation objectives, continuously measure and improve the effectiveness of that testing based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and evaluate and integrate new testing tools, technologies, and procedures to achieve the organization’s technical objectives.

In this capacity, you’ll collaborate with engineering and product team members, architects, and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies, detailed test plans, and scenarios. You’ll always respect others' opinions, accept constructive criticism, share your views with a passion for improving the team’s performance, and collaborate openly and positively with your teammates.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain test methodology documentation for traceability and repeatability
• Identify regression test candidates for automation, plan automation activities across the team and automate test cases
• Execute test cases/scripts including functional, regression, exploratory, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database
• Report issues in work management tool (e.g., Jira) along with steps required to re-create the issue
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection
• Support metrics program by creating, collecting and tracking test related metrics
• Inform innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy

Basic Qualifications:

• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with 365 days of your start date with Leidos.
• Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree
• Experience with software development (Java, NodeJS/JS, C++, Rust)
• Experience with writing and/or developing test procedures and automated test scripts (e.g., Test Complete, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cucumber, QFTest or Cypress)

Preferred Qualifications:

• US Citizen with an active TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience with Agile development principles and methodologies
• Experience with automating unit, functional, integration and performance testing of web applications using industry-standard tools such as Playwright, JUnit, SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, and JMeter
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methodologies and tools
• Familiarity with software design patterns
• Solid understanding of software development process fundamentals
• Experience managing projects within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket).
• Familiarity with component-based web frameworks & libraries (React, Vue, Angular)
• Knowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Gitlab)
• Familiarity with SQL and No
  
  SQL databases
• Experience with USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process

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