Mid/Senior Manual Test Engineer — TS/SCI Poly

Leidos; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid Holidays

401K with company match

Flexible schedules

Discounted stock purchase plans

Technical upskilling

Education and training support

Parental paid leave

Job summary

Leidos has a new opportunity for a Mid/Sr Manual Test Engineer in its Intel Sector’s Cyber & Analytics Business Area. The role focuses on component, integration, and system testing, creating test procedures, and validating defect fixes in a dynamic software environment.

The ideal candidate will join a skilled Manual Test Team supporting a fast-paced program, with opportunities to contribute to test milestones and regression testing while working with physical lab equipment and cross-functional

Qualifications

• Must have current, full-time experience working as a Test Engineer.
• Must have experience testing through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases, and test processes.
• Must have experience participating in formal test events (Acceptance Test, User Acceptance Test, Software Final Release Test, Maintenance Release Test, etc.).
• Must have demonstrated experience developing and executing formal system tests to verify compliance with customer requirements.
• Must have experience collaborating with software developers to create formal test procedures.
• Must have experience working with physical equipment in a test lab environment.
• Must have experience collecting, analyzing, presenting test results verbally and reporting test results in writing.
• Must have experience utilizing elevated privileges to set up and execute manual test procedures.
• Must have experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting, and audits.
• Must have experience testing systems from existing system and functional specifications.
• Must have strong communication skills and be able to successfully communicate with both management and technical personnel.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with other Engineers and customer test stakeholders to define testing priorities and establish test event schedules.
• Partner with System-Level Test Teams and Scrum Masters to identify tasks and resources for test environment preparation, test procedure development, and execution of informal and formal testing.
• Identify and manage cross-team dependencies required to successfully execute program release testing events.
• Perform manual component, integration, system, and end-to-end testing of software applications.
• Develop, write, and execute system-level and integration-level test procedures and test reports.
• Evaluate software changes and verify defect corrective actions identified during development, testing, and operational use.
• Utilize basic system administration skills and work with physical equipment in a test lab environment.
• Develop test data, define test acceptance criteria, and create test methodologies for subsystem interfaces and software modules.
• Plan, perform, and oversee regression testing using a full suite of Operational Test Scenarios for builds/images delivered to the customer.
• Engage with customer points of contact when required, to prepare for and conduct formal test milestones (e.g. Test Readiness Reviews, Test Results Reviews), coordinate customer witnessing of formal tests, and provide test resource support for customer test events.
• Understand all software components and their interface requirements to ensure comprehensive test coverage.
• Develop, review and contribute to test plans and test procedure documentation as part of a broader test organization.
• Support software configuration management processes related to test artifacts and environments.
• Work collaboratively with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Integration, Deployment, and Sustainment teams.

Skills

Test Engineering

Manual Testing

SDLC Experience

Formal Test Events

Test Procedures

System Testing

Cross-team Collaboration

Lab Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree + 12–15 years

MS degree + 10–13 years

Doctorate (optional)

Tools

Java

Shell

Python

SAFe Agilist

DevOps Certification

Job description

Leidos has a new opportunity for a Mid/Sr Manual Test Engineer in its Intel Sector’s Cyber & Analytics Business Area. The role focuses on component, integration, and system testing, creating test procedures, and validating defect fixes in a dynamic software environment.

The ideal candidate will join a skilled Manual Test Team supporting a fast-paced program, with opportunities to contribute to test milestones and regression testing while working with physical lab equipment and cross-functional