Senior Test Engineer - AI-Driven Automation & Microservices

Leidos; Egg Harbor Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area, supporting the development of L-CAP. This role uses SAFe/Agile methods to deliver automated tests for a hybrid cloud platform critical to next‑gen air traffic management.

Responsibilities include designing test automation frameworks, integrating tests into CI/CD, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring security and compliance for government programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline with 8+ years of experience.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, JUnit, pytest) and Java or JavaScript test development.
• Expert integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions.
• High experience with performance, integration, and API testing for distributed systems (JMeter, Gatling).
• Knowledge of distributed service testing, including service virtualization, contract testing, chaos engineering, and data-driven test automation.
• Experience with Agile/SAFe testing, quality engineering principles, defect tracking tools.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust; U.S. citizenship required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement test automation frameworks for microservices-based platform components
• Build and maintain reusable test libraries and utilities for the L-CAP test infrastructure
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines ensuring continuous quality gates
• Conduct performance testing to validate system behavior under load and stress conditions
• Execute integration testing across platform services, APIs, and external system interfaces
• Develop test plans and strategies aligned with sprint and PI objectives
• Mentor junior test engineers on automation practices

Skills

Test automation

Java/JavaScript

CI/CD

Performance testing

API testing

Agile/SAFe

Public Trust eligibility

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/SE

Master’s degree

Tools

Selenium

JUnit

pytest

Java

JavaScript

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

JMeter

Gatling

Docker

Kubernetes

REST Assured

Postman

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area, supporting the development of L-CAP. This role uses SAFe/Agile methods to deliver automated tests for a hybrid cloud platform critical to next‑gen air traffic management.

Responsibilities include designing test automation frameworks, integrating tests into CI/CD, and mentoring junior engineers while ensuring security and compliance for government programs.