Mid-Level Test Engineer: Automation, CI/CD & GEOINT

Colorado Psychiatric; Englewood, Northern (CO, KY); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Mid-Level Test Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community customer. You will lead test strategy, design automated tests, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software deliveries in an Agile DevSecOps environment.

The role emphasizes automated testing, CI/CD integration, and delivering reliable, secure software for national security missions across multiple locations including Englewood, CO.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related field.
• 4–8 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s with 2–6 years of prior relevant experience.
• 6+ years of software testing or quality engineering experience.
• Experience supporting Agile software development programs.
• Demonstrated experience creating and executing manual and automated test plans.
• Experience with automated testing tools such as Cypress, Playwright, or equivalent.
• Experience with API testing using tools such as Postman or REST Assured.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools including Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Experience with defect management tools such as Jira.
• Ability to communicate results and issues to technical and non-technical customer stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, design, development, and execution of comprehensive test strategies across multiple Agile sprints.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated and manual test cases for new and existing capabilities.
• Collaborate daily with software engineers, product managers, system engineers, and Scrum Masters to define acceptance criteria and ensure quality is built into every release.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Validate application performance, reliability, security, and usability.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects through resolution.
• Support CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated testing into deployment workflows.
• Analyze test results, communicate risks, and provide recommendations that improve software quality.
• Contribute to continuous process improvement initiatives that enhance Agile team effectiveness.

Skills

Agile experience

Software testing

Quality engineering

Jira usage

CI/CD understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related field

Master’s degree with 2–6 years of relevant experience

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

REST Assured

Jenkins

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

JMeter

LoadRunner

AWS

OpenShift

Jira

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Mid-Level Test Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community customer. You will lead test strategy, design automated tests, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality software deliveries in an Agile DevSecOps environment.

The role emphasizes automated testing, CI/CD integration, and delivering reliable, secure software for national security missions across multiple locations including Englewood, CO.