Test Engineer - TS/SCI Polygraph

Leidos•Herndon, VA

About The Position

Seeking an experienced Test Engineer to join our SITE III Directorate Operations (DO) team supporting the U.S. Intelligence Community. This role supports web applications focused on CI/HUMINT for the worldwide IC. Key Responsibilities: • Standard Setting: Establish and uphold integration and testing standards. • Test Strategy: Develop and implement test strategies to ensure system reliability. • Stakeholder Coordination: Coordinate with various organizations for integration and testing activities. • System Readiness: Prepare and assess readiness for system activities. • Process Implementation: Ensure compliance with testing processes and track metrics. • Discrepancy Management: Evaluate reports and validate fixes affecting systems. • Test Procedures: Prepare system test procedures and user acceptance procedures following defined standards. • Agile: Operate in a fast-paced, Agile development environment as part of the scrum team.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI polygraph OR SCI eligibility and able to obtain a polygraph may be considered for the right candidate. US Citizenship required.
A Bachelor’s degree in an area applicable to the position with 8+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree in an area applicable to the position with 6 years of relevant experience; an additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement
Experienced tester, front end, back end, middle tier. Development environments include Java, Wildfly, Openshift, Docker, Jenkins, Git, Redmine, Artifactory, Postgres, some Cloud technologies (such as S3 and ElastiCache), and Oracle.
Knowledge of Agile processes is required.
The candidate must have recent experience in some of these key areas and be willing/able to be in lead tester positions for Agile scrum teams.

Nice To Haves

Extensive knowledge and experience with software testing Experience using Gitlab
Experience with Agile
Experience interacting with the end users and functional customer in support of sprint reviews, sprint demos and In-Plant Acceptance testing is preferred but not required

Responsibilities

Establish and uphold integration and testing standards.
Develop and implement test strategies to ensure system reliability.
Coordinate with various organizations for integration and testing activities.
Prepare and assess readiness for system activities.
Ensure compliance with testing processes and track metrics.
Evaluate reports and validate fixes affecting systems.
Prepare system test procedures and user acceptance procedures following defined standards.
Operate in a fast-paced, Agile development environment as part of the scrum team.