Lead Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer
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Colorado Springs, CO - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 135000 - 216000
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Job Summary
Responsibilities
Peraton is delivering advanced mission planning digital engineering and commandandcontrol capabilities supporting the U.S. Governments space communications enterprise. Our team uses modern MBSE practices to translate mission needs into precise traceable and verifiable technical requirements across a complex multisystem environment.
As a Lead Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability performance and security of core platform services that enable scalable resilient satellite ground communications and datatransport capabilities. You will design and maintain automated testing frameworks validate complex web interfaces and microservices and drive quality assurance practices that uphold missioncritical standards for U.S. Government this role you will lead automation strategy collaborate closely with crossfunctional engineering teams and ensure test solutions align with system requirements technical objectives and program compliance expectations.
This position may be supported from any of the following locations: Colorado Springs CO; Arlington VA; or Seal Beach CA.
What Youll Do
- Architect design and evolve scalable automated testing frameworks using Cypress (JavaScript/TypeScript) to validate complex web interfaces microservices/APIs and endtoend system workflows essential to mission operations.
- Provide technical leadership to the QA automation team defining automation strategies establishing robust test procedures and shaping bestpractice approaches to Agile/SAFe execution.
- Lead the development compilation and execution of automated regression and functional test suites ensuring consistent delivery of highquality software across multiple integrated subsystems. Drive defect management activities in Jira with a focus on rootcause identification and longterm quality improvement.
- Oversee the design maintenance and governance of test control databases (Postgres MySQL) ensuring highconfidence data sets accuracy and proper distribution of test data supporting enterprisescale development and integration efforts.
- Perform advanced system analysis in Linux environmentsconducting deepdive log reviews troubleshooting distributed applications running diagnostics and guiding junior engineers through complex debugging scenarios.
- Lead formal test reviews and customer-facing discussions clearly presenting acceptance criteria test results and technical rationale to government stakeholders while addressing highpriority concerns with confidence.
- Own the integration of Cypress automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins GitLab CI) across AWS cloud and containerized environments optimizing pipeline performance reliability headless execution and parallelization strategies.
- Collaborate at a technical lead level with developers system engineers analysts and mission specialists to influence requirement definition shaping testability considerations early in the lifecycle and mitigating architectural risks.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- Associates degree and 14 years of experience; OR bachelors degree and 12 years of experience; OR masters degree and 10 years of experience. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 5 years supporting large government programs in software testing development or management roles with a strong understanding of software testing methodologies and the full software development life cycle (SDLC).
- This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
- Proven experience in a technical lead or software engineering leadership role.
- Proven handson experience creating maintaining and scaling automated test frameworks using Cypress and JavaScript/TypeScript.
- Demonstrated experience in the space domain industry (e.g. satellite systems ground control spacerelated data).
- Experience working with Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) like Postgres or MySQL.
- Experience testing REST APIs.
- Strong operational experience in Linux environments including commandline navigation file manipulation script execution and log analysis.
- Automation Frameworks: Handson experience with Cypress and Playwright for endtoend testing.
- Scripting and Languages: Strong scripting capabilities in Python and Bash.
- Test Frameworks: Proficiency in PyTest and JUnit.
- Infrastructure and Containerization: Practical experience working within Kubernetes environments.
- Messaging and Data Flow: Familiarity with message buses (e.g. Kafka ActiveMQ) to test eventdriven architectures.
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Aerospace Engineering or a related technical field.
- Handson experience with Cypress advanced features (e.g. API testing via () custom commands fixture management and Cypress Cloud/Dashboard integration).
- Experience testing microservices architectures (Dockerfocused) and cloud platforms like AWS (e.g. S3 Amazon RDS).
- Handson experience with tools such as Jira Jenkins GitLab and Ansible.
- Demonstrated ability supporting unit system interface integration and verification testing events.
- CompTIA Security or other IA certification in accordance with DoD 857001.M (IAT/IAM levels).
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills with experience supporting customerfacing test events and requirement selloff activities.
- SAFe Agilist (or equivalent Agile certification).
Benefits:
Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participatein an attractive bonus plan
Peraton Overview
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 worlds 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 do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$135000 - $216000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors including but not limited to the scope and responsibilities of the position the individuals experience education knowledge skills and competencies as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position employees may be eligible for overtime shift differential and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.
EEO
EEO: Equal opportunity employer including disability and protected veterans or other characteristics protected by law.
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About Company
Peraton provides innovative solutions for the most sensitive and critical programs in government today, developed and executed by scientists, engineers, and other experts.
