Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Peraton; Herndon (VA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA (or nearby) to support a National Security program. You will operate within an Agile software development environment, maintain and enhance test scripts, design comprehensive test plans, and document issues in Jira, collaborating with a high-performing team on DoD/IC objectives.

The role requires a Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility, polygraph within 30 days, and experience across testing, automation tools, and distributed

Qualifications

• Associates degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor degree with 8+ years; OR Masters with 6+ years experience.
• Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and pass a polygraph within 30 days; TS/SCI with poly requirements.
• 4 years experience in software testing.
• 4 years experience creating test plans/procedures.
• 4 years experience in an Agile software development environment.
• Familiarity with Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, Active MQ.
• Baseline usage of IC Connect, Swagger, Rancher, Elastic for testing tasks.
• Understanding of system environments and API locations setup.
• Working knowledge of services architecture and how components interact.
• Experience with Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enhance test scripts and execute test procedures across development, integration, regression and UAT.
• Design and write test plans and procedures; analyze results and review code.
• Document bugs in Jira and provide test reports.

Skills

Software testing

Agile development

Independent working

Education

Associates/Bachelor/Master with experience mix

Tools

Jira

Jenkins

Gitlab

Ansible

Swagger

Rancher

Kafka

Kubernetes

Elastic

Job description

Required Qualifications:

• Associates degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor e2s 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 eligibilityand 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, Preprod, 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 Polygraphis 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 eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

Peraton is seeking a SoftwareTest Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO location 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 experiencein 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.