Senior Software Test Engineer

Senior Software Test Engineer

Omaha NE

No clearance required to start Must be clearable to Secret

Ready for your next career step Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a Senior 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 teams software deployed into our customers classified networks. Our engineers are at the forefront of defining and building solutions to address the challenges faced by our end users applying a go-fast agile approach driven by small teams that rely on and value each team members contributions.

As a Senior Software Test Engineer youll 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. Youll 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 organizations technical objectives.

In this capacity youll collaborate with engineering and product team members architects and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies detailed test plans and scenarios. Youll always respect others opinions accept constructive criticism share your views with a passion for improving the teams performance and collaborate openly and positively with your teammates.

Most of the work will be on site in Leidos facility in Omaha Nebraska. Some level of remote/work from home is possible.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain test methodology documentation for traceability and repeatability.
• Identify regression test candidates for automation plan automation activities across the team and automate test cases.
• 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.
• 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.
• Support metrics program by creating collecting and tracking test related metrics.
• Inform innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy.

Basic Qualifications:

• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Bachelors degree and 8 years of prior relevant experience or a Masters degree with 6 years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience with software development (Java NodeJS/JS C Rust).
• Experience with writing and/or developing test procedures and automated test scripts (e.g. Test Complete Selenium Playwright Puppeteer Cucumber QFTest or Cypress).

Preferred Qualifications:

• US Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or higher.
• 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 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 within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence JIRA Bitbucket).
• Familiarity with component-based web frameworks & libraries (React Vue Angular).
• Knowledge of a version control system (e.g. Git).
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Gitlab).
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process.

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