Principal Test Engineer

Full-time - Senior

Reston, VA

10,001+ employees

About the position

Leidos has a new and exciting opportunity for a Principal Test Engineer in our National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA). Our talented team is at the forefront in Security Engineering, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Mission Software, Analytical Methods and Modeling, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), and Cryptographic Key Management. At Leidos, we offer competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and much more. Join us and make a difference in National Security!

Responsibilities

• Participate in program Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, increment planning) to support innovation and enhancement of custom applications through iteration/functionality testing.
• Collaborate with team members to assess story point/complexity efforts (using best practices) to ensure proper testing and delivery of functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria.
• Collaborate with team members (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software Developers) to develop test approaches with emphasis on automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected toolsets.
• Develop automated test cases using knowledge of custom Applications through designated GUI/COTS products (ex: Selenium and Katalon Studio).
• Leverage DevOps practices to ensure repeatability and Configuration Management of test cases/scripts are maintained and continuously improved.
• Develop and document end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management system (JIRA/Confluence) and support performance testing/evaluation activities using tools such as Jmeter.

Requirements

• In-depth experience testing both back-end and front-end applications processes, scripting languages (ex: Python) to automate tasks, and test data/script development.
• Knowledge of or direct experience with software performance testing practices.
• Direct experience with creation, authoring, execution and documentation of test cases/result sets for software products in an agile cadence.
• Significant experience working/testing within Commercial Cloud Platforms (ex: AWS) and DevOps tools, and working in a SAFe Agile and DevOps development environment.
• Demonstrated ability to work within collaborative environment to execute test cases complimentary to development efforts.
• BS degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Master’s with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience. Will consider additional experience in lieu of a degree.
• Candidate must have an active TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Linux environments.
• Experience reviewing output of CI jobs and capable of tracking test failures back to code changes that resulted in bugs.
• Capable of reviewing code check-ins to understand the impact of code changes on system functionality and potential applications bugs.
• Direct experience with AWS environments.

Benefits

• Paid Time Off
• 11 paid Holidays
• 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting
• Flexible Schedules
• Discounted Stock Purchase Plans
• Technical Upskilling
• Education and Training Support
• Parental Paid Leave