Test Automation Engineer SME

Description
Job Description:
Leidos National Security Sector combines technology-enabled services and mission software capabilities in the areas of cyber, logistics, security operations, and decision analytics to support our defense and intel customers' mission to defend against evolving threats around the world. Our team's focus is to ensure our customers have the right tools, technologies, and tactics to keep pace with an ever-evolving security landscape and succeed in their pursuit to protect people and critical assets.

The Spatial Solutions Division (SSD), part of the Decision Advantage Solutions Business Area, is currently seeking a Test Automation Engineer Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Maru Program who focuses on designing and implementing automated testing processes and tools for our state-of-the-art software solutions delivered to our government customers. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an outstanding software engineering team and will support the team's software deployed in the cloud. Our engineers are at the forefront of defining and building solutions to address challenges faced by our end users, applying a go-fast agile approach driven by small teams that rely on and value the contributions of each team member.

As the Test Automation Engineer SME, you'll responsible for building automation frameworks for tests and other test-related development processes, such as Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) pipelines and write code to improve the overall testability of software. You'll identify opportunities to increase the level of automated testing of our customer products and solutions, plan and execute strategies to achieve test automation objectives, continuously measure and improve the effectiveness of that testing based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and evaluate and integrate new testing tools, technologies, and procedures to achieve the organization's technical objectives.

In this capacity, you'll collaborate with engineering and product team members, architects, and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies, detailed test plans, and scenarios. You'll always respect the opinions of others, accept constructive criticism, share your views with a passion for improving the entire team's performance, and collaborate openly and positively with your teammates.
Clearance Level Required: Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph

Primary Responsibilities:

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Design, develop, and maintain test suites to validate software functionality.
• Participate in code reviews and inspections to ensure testability of code and adherence to coding standards that facilitate automated testing.
• Build and enhance automated testing frameworks and tools that facilitate automated testing across different layers of the application.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and delivery.
• Monitor and analyze test results and ensure the stability of builds before deployment.
• Maintain high quality software by ensuring comprehensive test coverage and enforcing testing best practices.
• Create and maintain documentation related to automated test cases, test plans, and test results to support knowledge sharing and transparency.
• Report issues in work management tool (e.g., Jira) along with steps required to re-create the issue.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.
• Work closely with software engineers to create and maintain test artifacts that may be reviewed by external stakeholder's real time.

Basic Qualifications:

• US citizenship is required per contract.
• BS degree and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Proficiency with programming languages like Java, JavaScript, and Python to write automation test scripts and develop test frameworks.
• Strong expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining automation test suites using frameworks like Selenium WebDriver, Katalon, Playwright, and Test NG.
• Familiarity with SQL, NoSQL, and PostgreSQL for querying databases and verifying data integrity during testing.
• Ability to perform both Frontend (UI/UX), and Backend (API, database, and server-side) testing.
• Strong, self-motivated desire to learn new tools, frameworks, and techniques.
• Ability to complete tasking independently with minimal direct supervision.
• Ability to work and collaborate effectively within a multi-disciplined engineering team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Agile development principles and methodologies.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methodologies and tools.
• Experience with automating unit, functional, integration and performance testing of web applications using industry-standard tools such as JUnit, Postman/SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, and JMeter.
• Familiarity with software design patterns.
• Solid understanding of software development process fundamentals.
• Experience managing projects within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket).
• Familiarity with basic web technologies (HTML, CSS, XML, REST, JSON).
• Knowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Jenkins).
• Familiarity with multiple operating systems (Windows, LINUX, etc.).

Original Posting Date: 2024-07-16While 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.

Pay Range: Pay Range $122,200.00 - $220,900.00
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.
About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
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