Jr. Test Engineer

The Leidos Civil NISC IV team is looking for a Junior Test Engineer to support a tech refresh of a critical application for the FAA.  We are looking for a collaborative and forward leaning individual who wants to tackle challenges and be a part of creating innovative solutions. In return, Leidos will invest in you with a new enhanced leave plan, generous 401k, and training to name just a few great benefits. Ready to tackle your next challenge - then we want you on our team.

The ideal candidate for this role will use their previous experience in analyzing system requirements and capability acceptance criteria. This candidate must be a self-starter, responsible, and be able to adjust to different assignments to support test events. The candidate will also be expected to dove-tail work with the fellow team members. The ideal candidate needs to be comfortable with virtual demonstrations to the government stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Experience providing expertise in quality assurance methods, tools, and technology
• Experience in System Integration Testing
• Experience in data driven testing and validation using tools such as SQL
• Strong knowledge of different automation testing tools.
• Knowledge of programming languages and process management methodology.
• Designing large scale test strategy and test plans.
• Experience working with legacy technologies and creating test plans that include automated testing efforts
• Setting up, maintaining, and performing test automation framework on multiple application platforms, such as Mobile, Desktop, and Web, and building test scenarios and acceptance tests.
• Experience integrating automated testing reporting into software development life cycle tools such as JIRA and Zephyr
• Experience in helping define business acceptance criteria
• Experience monitoring all QA activities, test results, leaked defects
• Working closely with tech lead and BAs
• Comfortable gathering and presenting testing metrics to key stakeholders.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS Degree and 1 to 2 years of prior relevant experience.  Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance.  Contract requirement.
• Functional GUI and limited back-end testing background as well as interface testing.
• Understanding of testing methodology.
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral.
• Customer oriented to support IV&V activities.
• Word, PowerPoint, and Excel experience or equivalent.
• Self-starter; demonstrated ability to work alone and with team members remotely.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Selenium
• Experience working with a Jenkins pipeline

Please Note: To qualified for FAA Public Trust you must be a US Citizen or a Green Card Holder who has resided in the US for the past 3 years.

Original Posting Date:

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.

Pay Range:

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.