Space Systems QA Engineer – TS/SCI, Agile & Test Automation

Peraton; Herndon (VA); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO

Bonus plan

Subsidized benefits

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO to support IC and DoD customers as part of a high-performing team. You will work with service and distributed computing tech for SSA data processing and distribution, contributing to EMMETT SDA I&W system development.

You will design and execute tests, maintain test scripts, and document bugs in Jira, while collaborating in an Agile environment across development, preprod, and production environments.

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.
• This position requires a minimum of Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request.
• 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
• 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

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Software testing

Test automation

Jira

Jenkins

Gitlab

Ansible

Agile

API testing

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Associates degree with 10+ years experience

Master's degree with 6+ years experience

Tools

Rancher

Kafka

Kubernetes

Active MQ

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO to support IC and DoD customers as part of a high-performing team. You will work with service and distributed computing tech for SSA data processing and distribution, contributing to EMMETT SDA I&W system development.

You will design and execute tests, maintain test scripts, and document bugs in Jira, while collaborating in an Agile environment across development, preprod, and production environments.