Senior Test Engineer - AI-First Automation

Leidos Inc; Gaithersburg (MD); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health and Wellness programs

Income Protection

Paid Leave

Retirement

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to support the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP) within the Air Traffic Business Area. This hybrid role combines on-site and remote work and requires U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

You will design automation for microservices, build reusable test libraries, and ensure quality in CI/CD pipelines within an Agile framework. Responsibilities include performance, integration, and API testing across distributed services, mentoring

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software test engineering (or 6+ with a master's).
• Experience building test automation frameworks for microservices.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Performance, integration, and API testing for distributed systems.
• Familiarity with Agile/SAFe testing and defect-tracking tools.
• U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Bachelor's or higher in CS/Software Engineering.

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.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD integration

Performance testing

API testing

SAFe/Agile testing

Public Trust

U.S. citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE

Tools

Selenium

JUnit

pytest

Jenkins

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

JMeter

Gatling

Docker

Kubernetes

Postman/Newman

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to support the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP) within the Air Traffic Business Area. This hybrid role combines on-site and remote work and requires U.S. citizenship with the ability to obtain a Public Trust.

You will design automation for microservices, build reusable test libraries, and ensure quality in CI/CD pipelines within an Agile framework. Responsibilities include performance, integration, and API testing across distributed services, mentoring