Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Peraton; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized employee benefits

25 days of PTO accrued annually

Attractive bonus plan

Job summary

Peraton is looking for a Software Quality Assurance Engineer in Aurora, CO. You will support the Intelligence Community and DoD customers with software testing and development responsibilities.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software testing, a relevant degree, and required security clearances. The role also involves working with advanced technologies in a team focused on critical national security objectives.

Peraton offers substantial benefits, including generous PTO and bonuses.

Qualifications

• Associates degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor's with 8+ years; OR Masters with 6+ years.
• Min. Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required; must maintain clearance.
• Experience with software testing for at least four years.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance test scripts, create and execute test procedures.
• Design and write test plans, analyze results, and review code.
• Document bugs in Jira and provide test reports.

Skills

Software Testing

Test Plans/Procedures

Agile Environment

Jira

GitLab

Education

Associate's degree with 10+ years or Bachelor's with 8+ years relevant experience

Tools

Jira

Jenkins

Ansible

Rancher

Kafka

Kubernetes

Job description

Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Locations

US-VA-Herndon | US-CO-Aurora

Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO to support Intelligence Community and DoD customers as part of a talented, high‑performing team. As part of this team you will work with emerging service and distributed computing technologies for satellite situational awareness (SSA) data processing and distribution.

The EMMETT program, a next‑gen Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system, establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators. The EMMETT team uses programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world‑class SDA I&W system.

What you’ll do:

• Utilize experience in maintaining and enhancing test scripts and creating and executing test procedures to support development, integration, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Design and write test plans and procedures, analyze test results and develop and review code as necessary.
• Document bugs in Jira and provide test reports.

Required Qualifications:

• Associates degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience; OR Masters with 6+ years experience. Additional four (4) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelors degree.
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers’ request – contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
• Four (4) years experience with software testing.
• Four (4) years experience creating test plans/procedures.
• Four (4) years experience in an Agile software development environment – development, integration, pre‑prod, production environments.
• Familiarity with either Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, Active MQ.
• Baseline utilization of core tools—including IC Connect, Swagger, Rancher, and Elastic—to execute testing tasks without team guidance.
• Functional understanding of a system’s environment and cluster configurations, including the independent identification and setup of API locations.
• Working knowledge of services architecture and how individual system functionalities interact with one another.
• Proactive, independent information gathering and self‑study between team touchpoints, ensuring that each subsequent sync shows measurable progress.
• Experience working with Jira, Jenkins, GitLab, Ansible.

Desired Qualifications:

• Active polygraph is preferred.
• Experience supporting customer‑facing test events or requirement sell‑off activities.
• Experience working in a Linux based environment.
• Experience working with an RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, etc.).
• Experience creating or maintaining automated software testing scripts/tools (Selenium, Cypress, etc.).

Benefits

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Target Salary Range

$112,000 – $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.