Senior Manual Test Engineer (TS/SCI Polygraph)

About the role

Leidos is hiring a Senior Manual Test Engineer for its Intel Sector's Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA) in Annapolis Junction. The role sits within a fast-paced, mission-critical software development program and supports a Manual Test Team that also includes teams automating regression tests and maintaining a complex testing framework. The engineer performs component, integration and system-level testing, evaluates software changes and verifies defect corrective actions.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate with engineers and customer test stakeholders to define testing priorities and test event schedules.
• Partner with System-Level Test Teams and Scrum Masters on test environment preparation, test procedure development and execution of informal and formal testing.
• Manage cross-team dependencies needed for program release testing events.
• Perform manual component, integration, system and end-to-end testing of software applications.
• Develop, write and execute system-level and integration-level test procedures and test reports.
• Evaluate software changes and verify defect corrective actions.
• Use basic system administration skills and work with physical equipment in a test lab.
• Develop test data, define acceptance criteria and create test methodologies for subsystem interfaces and modules.
• Plan, perform and oversee regression testing with a full suite of Operational Test Scenarios.
• Prepare for and run formal test milestones (Test Readiness Reviews, Test Results Reviews), coordinate customer witnessing and support customer test events.
• Contribute to test plans and procedures, support software configuration management of test artifacts, and work with Software Development, Systems Engineering, Integration, Deployment and Sustainment teams.

Required profile

• Masters degree with 15-20 years of relevant experience, or Doctorate with 13-16 years of relevant experience.
• Full system development life-cycle testing experience, including test plans, test cases and processes.
• Formal test events such as Acceptance, User Acceptance, Software Final Release and Maintenance Release tests.
• Developing and executing formal system tests to verify customer requirements.
• Collaborating with developers to create formal test procedures.
• Working with physical equipment in a test lab and using elevated privileges to run manual tests.
• Documenting test results for corrective actions, reporting and audits.
• Clearance: TS/SCI with Polygraph.

Preferred qualifications

• Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD).
• Programming and scripting languages such as Java, shell and Python.
• Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and key management.
• SAFe Agilist or DevOps certification.
• Agile development environment experience.

The pay range is $139,100 to $251,450, depending on factors such as experience and skills. Benefits include paid time off, 11 paid holidays, 401K with a 6% company match, flexible schedules, stock purchase plan, training support and parental paid leave.