Mid/Senior Manual Tester - Mission-Critical Systems

Leidos LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

11 paid Holidays

401K with company match

Job summary

Leidos has a new opportunity for a Mid/Sr Manual Test Engineer on a fast-paced, mission-critical program within the Cyber & Analytics Business Area. The role involves writing and executing system-level tests, evaluating software changes, and validating defect corrective actions in a lab environment.

The team works across testing levels including component, integration, and end-to-end testing, with collaboration among Software Development, Systems Engineering, and Deployment teams.

Qualifications

• BS degree and 12–15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10–13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Must have current, full-time experience working as a Test Engineer.
• Experience testing through a full system development life cycle, including implementing test plans, test cases, and test processes.
• Experience participating in formal test events (Acceptance Test, User Acceptance Test, Software Final Release Test, Maintenance Release Test, etc.).
• Experience developing and executing formal system tests to verify compliance with customer requirements.
• Experience collaborating with software developers to create formal test procedures.
• Experience working with physical equipment in a test lab environment.
• Experience collecting, analyzing, presenting test results verbally and reporting test results in writing.
• Experience utilizing elevated privileges to set up and execute manual test procedures.
• Experience documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting, and audits.
• Experience testing systems from existing system and functional specifications.
• 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

System testing

Test planning

Documentation

Communication

Education

BS degree

Masters degree

Doctorate (PhD)

Tools

Java

Shell

Python

Job description

Leidos has a new opportunity for a Mid/Sr Manual Test Engineer on a fast-paced, mission-critical program within the Cyber & Analytics Business Area. The role involves writing and executing system-level tests, evaluating software changes, and validating defect corrective actions in a lab environment.

The team works across testing levels including component, integration, and end-to-end testing, with collaboration among Software Development, Systems Engineering, and Deployment teams.