Senior Test Automation Lead - Secret Clearance

Northrop Grumman; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 118,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance may be available

Job summary

Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit seeks a Sr. Principal Test Engineer Lead – Test Automation to standardize testing and drive automation across TASD software products.

This onsite role splits time between Schriever Space Force Base and the Colorado Springs facility, with limited remote work. You will lead automation efforts, design test suites, and mentor engineers in rigorous testing practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or higher in a STEM field with related work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead test engineers to develop standard processes, test plans, results documentation and best practices.
• Define and implement a test automation strategy and roadmap for TASD software products.
• Design and implement manual and automated regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
• Create or utilize test tools and harnesses and train others on their use.
• Support agile software teams and embed automation into CI/CD pipelines and quality gates.
• Improve product quality through rigorous testing, automation, and peer review.

Skills

Test automation

Team leadership

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting

Environment orchestration

Jira/Confluence/Git

Agile

Test planning

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

Master’s Degree in STEM

PhD in STEM

Tools

JUnit/TestNG

Selenium/WebDriver

REST Assured/Postman

Jenkins/GitHub Actions

Job description

Northrop Grumman Space Systems, Multi-Domain Operations, and Missile Defense Integration Business Unit seeks a Sr. Principal Test Engineer Lead – Test Automation to standardize testing and drive automation across TASD software products.

This onsite role splits time between Schriever Space Force Base and the Colorado Springs facility, with limited remote work. You will lead automation efforts, design test suites, and mentor engineers in rigorous testing practices.