Senior Software Test Engineer
About The Position
Leidos is hiring a Senior Software Test Engineer to help automate testing for software solutions delivered to government customers. The engineer will work collaboratively with a software engineering team supporting software deployed in customers’ classified networks. The team uses an agile approach and small, collaborative teams. The role participates in planning, designing, and executing end-to-end automated testing in support of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment. It identifies opportunities to expand automated testing, plans and executes strategies to meet automation objectives, measures and improves testing effectiveness using KPIs, and evaluates and integrates testing tools, technologies, and procedures. The engineer collaborates with engineering and product team members, architects, and IT resources to develop and execute test strategies, plans, and scenarios. Most work will be onsite at Leidos’ Omaha, Nebraska facility, with some remote or work-from-home work possible. No clearance is required to start, but the candidate must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree and 8 or more years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree and 6 or more years of experience; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Experience with software development using Java, NodeJS/JavaScript, C++, or Rust.
- Experience writing or developing test procedures and automated test scripts using tools such as TestComplete, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cucumber, QFTest, or Cypress.
Nice To Haves
- U.S. citizenship with an active Secret security clearance or higher.
- Experience with Agile development principles and methodologies.
- Experience 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 with Atlassian tools, including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket.
- Familiarity with component-based web frameworks and libraries such as React, Vue, and Angular.
- Knowledge of a version control system such as Git.
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools such as GitLab.
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience with the USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process.
Responsibilities
- Create and maintain test methodology documentation to support traceability and repeatability.
- Identify regression test candidates for automation, plan automation activities across the team, and automate test cases.
- Execute functional, regression, exploratory, performance, load, and smoke test cases or scripts for web applications and databases.
- Report issues in a work management tool, such as Jira, including steps to reproduce the issue.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
- Participate in risk management assessments and software development phases, with emphasis on user requirements analysis, test design, and test-tool selection.
- Support the metrics program by creating, collecting, and tracking test-related metrics.
- Identify innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategies.
- Plan, design, and execute end-to-end automated testing in support of CI/CD.
- Measure and improve testing effectiveness using KPIs, and evaluate and integrate testing tools, technologies, and procedures.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
