Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Peraton

$112K — $179K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associates degree and 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor's degree and 8+ years; OR Master's degree and 6+ years; additional experience may substitute for degree.
  • Minimum Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment.
  • 4+ years of software testing experience.
  • 4+ years of experience creating test plans and procedures.
  • 4+ years in an Agile software development environment, covering various stages from development to production.
  • Familiarity with technologies like Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, and Active MQ.
  • Experience with key core tools such as IC Connect, Swagger, and Elastic.

Responsibilities

  • Maintain and enhance test scripts, creating and executing test procedures for various testing phases.
  • Design and document test plans, analyze results, and review code as needed.
  • Document bugs in Jira and generate detailed test reports.
  • Support development, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing processes.
  • Collaborate with the team on emerging technologies in satellite situational awareness data processing.

Benefits

  • Heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for employees and dependents.
  • 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous cap.
  • Eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking a Software Test 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 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: 

  • 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, 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 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 eligible 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.

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