Description

Join us at Leidos, where your most important work is ahead! You will enjoy great benefits such as paid time off (PTO), flexible schedules, discounted stock purchase plans, career growth, unlimited education and training support, parental paid leave and more! You will have the opportunity to work under the best leadership in the industry at all levels; where supporting their employees and what they do….is what matters.

Develop and execute software test plans in order to identify software problems and their causes. Responsible for the development and maintenance of test cases, executing and documenting manual and automated testing, and working with software engineers, system engineers, and other team members to validate development, design, and maintenance activities. Duties may include testing, discovering, reporting, and tracking defects within a system, analyzing test results and reporting performance, load, and other issues, developing, executing, and maintaining acceptance, integration, and system tests, conducting post-release/post-implementation testing, performing continuous functional and regression testing, and working with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with design engineers, production personnel, customers, and other stakeholders to identify and develop test validation scripts using program designated languages (ex: Python)
• Communicates with internal team members across multiple areas and client team members.
• Participate and collaborate with team members to ensure proper testing and delivery of functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria
• Collaborate with team members to develop test approaches with emphasis on automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected t
• Develop automated test cases using knowledge of custom Applications through designated GUI/COTS products (ex: Selenium and Katalon Studio)
• Leverage DevOps practices to ensure repeatability and Configuration Management of test cases/scripts are maintained the continuously improved
• Develop and document end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management system (JIRA/Confluence)
• Generate test data and identify use/corner cases required to meet User Story/Customer needs
• Support performance testing/evaluation activities using tools such as Jmeter
• Perform job duties within Commercial cloud development environments

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have an active TS/SCI with Polygraph to be considered for this role.
• Typically requires BS degree and 12-15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10-13 years of prior relevant experience, will consider additional years of experience in lieu of degree
• Understanding and experience in the complete life-cycle of software systems
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
• Strong, effective, and professional communication (written/verbal) and interpersonal skills 
• Ability to plan, prioritize and organize work without close supervision
• Ability to take initiative in troubleshooting; creative in determining approach or action to take in non-routine situations
• Ability to test both back-end applications processes in addition to front end
• Significant experience in test data/script development
• Knowledge of or direct experience with software performance testing practices
• Direct experience with creation, authoring, execution and documentation of test cases/result sets for software products in an agile cadence
• Demonstrated ability to work within collaborative environment to execute test cases complimentary to development efforts

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with test automation methodologies
• Experience conducting unit testing of software modifications
• Experience with SecDevOps

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

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