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 challenges faced by our end users, applying a go-fast agile approach driven by small teams that rely on and value the contributions of each team member.

As a Software Test Engineer, you’ll be responsible for 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 work independently to 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 experts, architects, and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies, detailed test plans, and scenarios. You’ll always respect the opinions of others, accept constructive criticism, share your views with a passion for improving the entire team’s performance, and collaborate openly and positively with your teammates.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan, design and execute end-to-end automated testing to support cloud-deployed products and solutions
• Create and maintain test methodology documentation for traceability and repeatability
• Set test automation objectives in coordination with the Chief Engineer and Lead Software Engineers and design and execute plans to achieve those objectives
• Report metrics and status on objectives to the respective development team leads
• Identify regression test candidates for automation, plan automation activities across the team and automate test cases
• Write test cases and hold test case reviews with stakeholders
• Enter and update test tickets to track progress
• Design and 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
• Record and report test results
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives
• Lead all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection
• Utilize software testing applications and COTS products in support of testing activities
• Support metrics program by collecting and tracking metrics on all activities
• Use metrics to identify areas for improvement
• Inform innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy
• Work closely with software engineers to create and maintain test artifacts that may be reviewed by external stakeholders real time

Basic Qualifications

• BS degree and 4 – 8 years of prior relevant experience or 4 additional years’ of experience in lieu of degree
• Experience with writing and/or developing test procedures and automated test scripts
• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new tools, frameworks, and techniques
• Ability to work independently with minimal direct supervision
• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team
• Must have ability to acquire a DoD Top Secret / SCI Security Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship required

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 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 basic web technologies (HTML, CSS, XML, REST, JSON)
• Knowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git).

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.