Test Engineer III

Responsibilities

As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets.

 

Peraton is seeking a Software Test Automation Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position will be located in Lanham, Maryland.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

· Conduct functional and/or integration testing of multiple programs in an IBM mainframe or client/server environment.

· Proactively identify use cases for test automation within supported projects

· Lead development of test automation solutions and frameworks

· Use test automation tools to execute test scripts that validate functional, technical, and performance requirements

· Use Government or Contractor-developed documentation to construct test cases with predetermined results and test data to verify program functionality and/or interfaces through assigned systems.

· Review output to determine whether or not the test results fulfill the established requirements, and if necessary, notify the responsible programmers, both verbally and in writing, of errors, omissions, and inconsistencies in the programs and/or documentation.

· Coordinate test activities with project stakeholders.

· Coordinate work assignments to ensure timely and accurate completion of testing.

· Provide inputs on the required testing level of effort for Unified Work Requests.

 

This requisition may be filled at a level 3 or 4.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications for an Engineer Software Quality 3 are:

· Bachelor’s degree and 5 to 7 years of progressive IT experience; OR a Master’s degree and 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience; OR 9 years of relevant work experience in the IT field in lieu of a degree.

· 4 years of software testing experience.

· 2 years of software test automation experience using one or more of the following: Selenium, QTP, HP-UFT, Rational Functional Tester, or other test automation tools.

· Must have knowledge and experience working with and supporting the development of an overall test Plan and tailored test plans for each release.

· Experience preparing comprehensive reports on testing progress/issues and remedial action.

· Strong written and verbal communication.

· Before beginning work, candidate must obtain interim staff like access based upon a Public Trust Moderate Risk Background Investigation security clearance. Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident (Green card holder) in order to obtain and maintain a Position of Public Trust clearance.

 

To be considered for an Engineer Software Quality 4 are:

· Bachelor’s degree and 8 to 10 years of progressive IT experience; OR a Master’s degree and 6 to 8 years of relevant work experience; OR 12 years of relevant work experience in the IT field.

· 6 years of software testing experience.

· 4 years of software test automation experience using one or more of the following: Selenium, QTP, HP-UFT, Rational Functional Tester, or other test automation tools.

· Must have knowledge and experience working with and supporting the development of an overall test Plan and tailored test plans for each release.

· Experience preparing comprehensive reports on testing progress/issues and remedial action.

· Experience leading and assisting junior Test Engineers.

· Strong written and verbal communication.

· Before beginning work, candidate must obtain interim staff like access based upon a Public Trust Moderate Risk Background Investigation security clearance. Must be a US Citizen or US Permanent Resident (Green card holder) in order to obtain and maintain a Position of Public Trust clearance.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with the following skills will be considered a significant plus in considering prospective candidates:

· Current active IRS Public Trust Clearance strongly preferred.

· Exposure to wide automation concepts, framework & best practices from industry in automating mainframe and web applications.

· Demonstrated experience in designing & implementing customized test automation frameworks as needed.

· Experience with IBM Mainframe or Unisys Mainframe applications and operations.

· Market knowledge of various classes of test automation tools, including low code/code free automated testing tools.

· Experience working with the federal government.

· Knowledge of current IRS tax administration software applications is a significant plus.

· Experience with Amazon Cloud Platform.

· Experience using Java.

· Experience with Rational CLM tools (Quality Manager, Team Concert, Doors Next Generation).

· Knowledge and experience with CTRL-M (server).

· Experience with IBM Mainframe TSO and JCL.

· Experience with XML and JSON.

· Experience with Agile, Iterative and Rapid Development methodologies.

· Background in Performance testing, Cybersecurity testing, and Section 508 compliance testing

· Experience with CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipeline models and associated tools (e.g. Jenkins, Gitlab).

· Experience with DevOps practices.

Peraton Overview

Peraton 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 and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

For Colorado Residents

Colorado Salary Minimum: $64,100 Colorado Salary Maximum: $155,300 The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position, and is just one component of Peraton's total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Peraton provides a variety of benefits to employees.