Test Engineer with Agile Experience

Description

The Leidos Spatial Solutions team has an opening for a Test Engineer to provide Agile DevOps support to mission critical systems. As a Test Engineer on this program, you will have the opportunity to perform test writing, evaluate test results, review system enhancements, and participate in feedback loops in a Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery Pipeline. This position requires an active TS to start and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI. The schedule for this position is Work from Home 3 days a week and 1 day at the St. Louis, MO Office and 1 day at the O'Fallon, IL Office.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Complete all JIRA developer ticket testing.
• Review deployments for each Sprint with a focus on newly implemented features.
• Participate in program Agile software development initiatives (standup, planning, Increment planning) to support innovation and enhancement of custom applications through iteration/functionality testing
• Participate and collaborate with team members to assess tickets to ensure proper testing and delivery of functionality per User Story Acceptance Criteria
• Collaborate with team members (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Software Developers) to develop test approaches with emphasis on automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected toolsets
• Aid in the creation of documentation and processes to increase the quality of the systems in a repeatable manner.
• Aid in the creation of checklists and processes to ensure that each new milestone passes all Minimum Viable Product (MVP) requirements.
• Aid in the creation of harmonious quality control procedures that can be applied across the entirety of the Aero Production Systems.
• Review customer feedback and update documents/checklists to ensure errors are not repeated.
• Work with developers to create and enhance tools that help with our workflow.
• Work with the team to come up with new ideas for tools and processes that would reduce manual efforts.
• Leverage DevOps practices to ensure repeatability and Configuration Management of test cases/scripts are maintained the continuously improved using task management system (JIRA/Confluence)
• Perform job duties within Commercial cloud development environments
• Provide feedback to the development team with QA trends and other process improvement feedback recommendations.

Basic Qualifications:

• Candidate must have BS degree preferably in Computer Science or related program and 8-12 years of related experience or Masters degree with 6-10 years. Will consider experience in lieu of a degree.
• Active TS to start and ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI.
• Ability to test both back end and front end applications processes
• Knowledge of or direct experience with software performance testing practices
• Significant experience with creation, authoring, execution and documentation of test cases/result sets for software products in an agile cadence
• Demonstrated ability to work within collaborative environment to execute test cases complimentary to development efforts
• Knowledge of working in an SAFe Agile and DevOps development environment and tempo
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience reviewing outputs and capable of tracking test failures back to code changes that resulted in bugs
• Capable of review code check-ins to understand the impact of code changes on system functionality and potential applications bugs.
• Experience in either software development projects or software integration projects in a service-oriented environment (Cloud, SOA, Web-Services) or virtualization environment.
• At least 4 years of experience with unit testing, continuous integration tools, and git version control
• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.
• Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.
• At least 4 years of experience with DoD Aeronautical Datasets
• At least 4 years of experience with AWS cloud formation templates
• At least 4 years of experience with Team Collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

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.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand 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.

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