Test Engineer

About Peraton

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking an experienced Test Engineer to join our national intelligence program in Northern Virginia that delivers engineering, application development, deployment, operations, upgrades and sustainment of products and services to achieve our client's global missions.

Responsibilities:

• Develop test plans, methods, and equipment to assure reliability of product in conjunction with product design and specifications.

• Design, develop, and implement testing methods and equipment.

• Plan and arrange the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating standard and special devices.

• Provide test area with parameters for sample testing and specifies tests to be performed.

• Compile data and define changes required in testing equipment, testing procedures, manufacturing processes, or new testing requirements.

• Test all customer samples and conduct special tests that cannot be performed in the test area.

• Consult with the development and/or requirements team to coordinate and test applications.

• Perform analysis, diagnostics, and preliminary evaluations of products.

• Develop testing procedures, test plans, scripts, scenarios, functional tests, regression tests, and deployment tests.

• Implement the testing processes and ensures all test activities follow those processes.

• Produce reports on each test activity and tracks test metrics.

• Monitor for continual test process improvement through failure analysis, throughput analysis, yield analysis, and report to management periodically.

• Participate within agile scrum development teams to gather and define requirements for a new user interface (UI)

• Define requirements and acceptance criteria for JIRA user stories and bug tickets

• Create and execute automated tests for front-end and back-end testing

• Communicate test case results with the Product Owner and developers, and work with them to resolve any discovered issues.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, such as daily stand ups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, Program Increment (PI) Planning, etc.

• Develop, implement and maintain processes, procedures, test cases, test results, issue resolutions, and performance analysis, and user guidelines/ instructions documentation.

• Travel: Travel may be required within the National Capital Region (NCR) on an as needed basis for customer or corporate requirements.

**Position is Contingent on Contract Award**

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret/ Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearance with ability to pass a Poly clearance.

• Minimum of 8 years relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree (Master's degree and 6 years of relevant experience or PhD with 3 years relevant experience).

• Experience with black box testing.

• Agile or SAFe experience.

• Backend database testing experience (SQL)

• Experience creating user story and bug tickets, including development of acceptance criteria.

• Experience creating test cases from user story requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Good communication skills, especially with Product Owners and developers.

• Experience testing Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) pipelines.

• Automated testing experience.

Desired Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance.

• Automated testing experience: Jenkins, experience

• Ability to execute selenium automation test suites as needed

SECURITY CLEARANCE:

This Position requires an Active TS/SCI and the ability to obtain a Poly, US Citizenship is required

To hold this clearance.

Details

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.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at https://www.careers.peraton.com/benefits.

Application Duration Statement: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

EEO:Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.