Test Automation Engineer

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton is prime contractor for an IC customer on a program which includes support to a Test Center mission, test tool automation & development, and image quality services.

The selected candidate will join a small and experienced team of test automation professionals supporting our customer's enterprise integration testing mission. The Test Tool Development and Automation Engineer will develop, test and maintain test automation scripts, support the operations and sustainment of test tool services, support test tool security accreditation and compliance, and draft user documentation. The candidate will work directly with test engineer subject matter experts to document and implement automation requirements to support test event execution.

This individual will be responsible for coordinating with program and government leadership to manage the implementation, training, and maintenance associated with testing software used during enterprise testing activities. Additionally, the candidate will be responsible for setting team priorities across two geographical locations and ensuring timely completion of activities to ensure test readiness. The selected candidate will be a self-starter, able to work independently, and be comfortable working in a small, geographically dispersed team.

• Conduct engineering analysis to identify all tasks (both manual and analytic) associated with assessment of system capabilities and interfaces, product checkout, and architecture checkout.
• Conduct engineering analysis to identify candidate tasks for automation.
• Automate selected tasks through code/script generation, or by identifying existing in-house or commercially available solutions (including open-source alternatives); identify opportunities to consolidate tasks or processes to maximize efficiency or minimize cost.
• Develop tools that support objectives such as: functionality testing (UI and API), task automation, automated system monitoring, load testing, performance profiling, test objective and test data management, etc.
• Design and develop automation scripts, tools, or applications, and appropriate test scenarios to verify the performance, capacity, and scalability of services and capabilities, across multiple environments.
• Develop and maintain scripts within government furnished automation and management testing tools. Management tool examples include Open Text Software Delivery Management (previously Octane). API testing tool examples include POSTman, SoapUI, Micro Focus Unified Functional Test. Performance testing tools include Open Text Load Runner and Dynatrace.
• Provide the expertise to analyze output of automated test tools, scripts, applications, and processes to evaluate against established criteria and develop a recommendation to the government and product vendor.
• Provide user training and support of testing tools and capabilities to customers, both government and contractor users.
• Coordinate with customers and software vendors to address and remediate issues identified while utilizing testing software within customer's test environment.
• Provide operations and support of software solutions deployed to customer's on-prem, Dev Ops, and cloud environments. Candidate must…