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

Leidos; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 87,100 - 157,450; 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 planning, design, and execution within an Agile Scrum Team to deliver reliable, secure software and automate testing in a DevSecOps environment.

This role requires US citizenship and Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph eligibility, with locations including Gaithersburg, MD and Tucson, AZ.

Qualifications

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or related field and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or 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 Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (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

Automated testing

Manual testing

API testing

CI/CD

Jira

Test planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Master's degree

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

REST Assured

Jenkins

GitLab

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Mid-Level Test Engineer to join the Chinook Program supporting an Intelligence Community customer. You will lead test planning, design, and execution within an Agile Scrum Team to deliver reliable, secure software and automate testing in a DevSecOps environment.

This role requires US citizenship and Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph eligibility, with locations including Gaithersburg, MD and Tucson, AZ.