Test Automation Engineer SME

7 hours ago

Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States Leidos Full time
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.

Key Responsibilities:

  • 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 stakeholders in real-time.

Requirements:

  • 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.).

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