AI-Driven Test Engineer for Mission-Critical Automation

Leidos; Egg Harbor City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to support the Air Traffic Business Area and the L-CAP platform, a hybrid-cloud, AI‑driven development program for next‑gen air traffic management. This role operates in a SAFe/Agile context and requires the ability to obtain a Public Trust and US citizenship.

You will design test automation frameworks for microservices, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor junior engineers while validating system performance and data integrity across distributed

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of相关 experience, or 2+ years with Master’s degree.
• Experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, JUnit, pytest) and Java or JavaScript testing.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with performance, API testing for distributed systems (JMeter, Gatling).
• Knowledge of distributed service testing, service virtualization, data‑driven test automation.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe testing, quality engineering, defect tracking tools.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; U.S. citizenship required.
• Successful completion of background investigations as required by government customers.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement test automation frameworks for microservices‑based platform components.
• Build and maintain reusable test libraries and utilities for the L-CAP test infrastructure.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines ensuring continuous quality gates.
• Conduct performance testing to validate system behavior under load and stress conditions.
• Execute integration testing across platform services, APIs, and external system interfaces.
• Develop test plans and strategies aligned with sprint and PI objectives.
• Analyze defect patterns and test metrics to identify quality trends and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with development and systems engineering teams on testability and quality requirements.
• Support test environment configuration and test data management activities.
• Mentor junior test engineers on automation practices and testing methodologies.
• Design and execute test scenarios based on operational ATC workflows ensuring modernized services replicate legacy system behavior.
• Develop distributed service validation frameworks verifying inter‑service communication, data flow, and performance under operational conditions.
• Implement data‑driven verification approaches supporting modernization of legacy automation functions.
• Embrace an AI‑first engineering culture by adopting AI‑assisted development tools, automation, and modern practices.

Skills

Test automation

Java/JavaScript

CI/CD

Distributed systems testing

Agile/SAFe testing

Public Trust

U.S. citizenship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering

Master’s degree (2+ years)

Tools

Selenium

JUnit

pytest

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

JMeter

Gatling

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to support the Air Traffic Business Area and the L-CAP platform, a hybrid-cloud, AI‑driven development program for next‑gen air traffic management. This role operates in a SAFe/Agile context and requires the ability to obtain a Public Trust and US citizenship.

You will design test automation frameworks for microservices, integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and mentor junior engineers while validating system performance and data integrity across distributed