Software Test Engineer
Company: Leidos Inc
Location: Gaithersburg
Posted on: May 4, 2024
Job Description:
Description Leidos National Security Sector combines
technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in
the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision
analytics to support our defense and intel customers' mission to
defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team's focus
is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and
tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and
succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.The
Spatial Solutions Division (SSD), part of the Decision Advantage
Solutions Business Area, is currently seeking a Software Test
Engineer for the Maru Program on the Joint Analytic Workspace
System (JAWS) Modernization and the Integration team 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 in the cloud.
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 the 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 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.Clearance Level Required:Top Secret with the ability to
obtain a SCI, as well as a polygraphPrimary Responsibilities:
- Perform verification and validation of modernization, and
integration efforts.
- Plan, design and execute end-to-end testing to support
cloud-deployed products and solutions.
- Create and maintain test methodology documentation for
traceability and repeatability.
- 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.
- Develop test plan and test cases for the integrated product and
documents in the software Verification Test Documentation (CDRL
0009) prior to IV&V at the NTO; hold test case reviews with
stakeholders.
- Enter and update test tickets to track progress.
- 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 in the Software Test Report
(CDRL 0008).
- 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.
- 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 stakeholder's real
time.Basic Qualifications:
- US citizenship is required per contract.
- BS degree and 4 - 8 years of prior relevant experience or
Master's with 2 - 6 years of prior relevant experience.
- 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 complete tasking independently with minimal direct
supervision.
- Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a
multi-disciplined engineering team.Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Agile development principles and
methodologies.
- Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery
methodologies and tools.
- Experience with automating unit, functional, integration and
performance testing of web applications using industry-standard
tools such as JUnit, Postman/SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, and
JMeter.
- 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).
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Jenkins).
- Familiarity with multiple operating systems (Windows, LINUX,
etc.).
- Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.Original Posting
Date:2024-04-02While 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:Pay Range $68,900.00 - $124,550.00The Leidos pay
range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.#Featuredjob
Keywords: Leidos Inc, Arlington , Software Test Engineer, IT / Software / Systems , Gaithersburg, Virginia
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