Responsibilities

Peraton is now hiring a Software Test Engineer in Chantilly, VA 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. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 years of relevant experience; OR a Master’s degree with 3 years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree 
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Top Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI 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. 
• Three (3) years experience with software testing 
• Three (3) years experience creating test plans/procedures 
• Three (3) years experience in an Agile software development environment 

Desired Qualifications: 

• 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.) 
• Experience working with Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible 
• Experience with Agile 

Benefits:

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We’re fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

Target Salary Range