Senior Field Software Test Engineer

SAIC; Upper Marlboro (MD); Hybrid; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC is seeking a Senior Field Software Test Engineer to lead software acceptance, integration, and regression testing across on-premises and cloud environments in Upper Marlboro, MD. You will work with cross-disciplinary teams to accelerate RDT&E projects for national security clients.

The role requires strong test and automation expertise, configuration management, and collaboration across locations. Travel up to 25% and potential for remote work are included in the package.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or a related discipline with 5+ years of experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with teams across locations.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with software engineering teams to configure, deploy, and test applications and microservices on on-premises infrastructure and on cloud platforms.
• Develop and maintain configuration documentation and software test plans.
• Perform and document tests of APIs and microservices, including containerized services, communicate issues to development teams, and follow up to ensure resolution.
• Coordinate testing activities with ongoing IDSL projects and priorities set up by program and technical leadership.
• Contribution to maintenance of software testing environments.
• Facilitate seamless code promotion into production by communicating issues identified by testing and verifying resolution.
• Support cross-functional teams by ensuring that our software products are tested and ready to meet changing research needs and client requirements.

Skills

Communication

Collaboration

Software testing

Education

BS in Computer Science / Engineering

MS in CS / Engineering

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Postman

Gatling

Seleneum

Active Directory

Job description

Minimum Clearance Required None

Job ID 2617756

Location Upper Marlboro, MD, US

Date Posted 2026-10-09

Category Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory Field Engineer

Schedule Full-Time

Shift Day Job

Travel Yes - 25% of the time

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work ORA_HYBRID

SAIC is seeking a Senior Field Software Test Engineer with strong experience performing software acceptance, integration, and regression testing, as well as configuration management. The candidate will take a key role in expanding the scale and accelerate the pace of our research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) supporting national security client projects at our facility in Upper Marlboro, MD and at other locations within the continental US. This role offers the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, data scientists, and AI scientists and contribute to innovative technology development and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with software engineering teams to configure, deploy, and test applications and microservices on on-premises infrastructure and on cloud platforms.
• Develop and maintain configuration documentation and software test plans.
• Perform and document tests of APIs and microservices, including containerized services, communicate issues to development teams, and follow up to ensure resolution.
• Coordinate testing activities with ongoing IDSL projects and priorities set up by program and technical leadership.
• Contribution to maintenance of software testing environments.
• Facilitate seamless code promotion into production by communicating issues identified by testing and verifying resolution.
• Support cross-functional teams by ensuring that our software products are tested and ready to meet changing research needs and client requirements.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline with 5+ years of experience or Master of Science (MS) with 3+ years of experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with teams across locations.

Technical Requirements

• Strong experience testing and configuring software on premises and at field locations sites.
• Strong experience with at least one programming language (e.g., GO).
• Experience testing both front end and back end software products.
• Experience testing APIs using tools like Postman.
• Experience testing IoT and USB device integrations.
• Experience with performance and load testing using tools like Gatling.
• Experience with test automation suites such as Seleneum.
• Experience with agile software development and tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, or similar.
• Understanding with event-driven systems or distributed architectures.
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with identity management principles and tools such as Active Directory.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps best-practices.

Target salary range $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.