Automation 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 do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities

As one of the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT providers, we deliver quality solutions and technologies to serve United State citizens. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets.

Peraton has a need for an experienced Automation Test Engineer to support our customer mission. If you are interested in putting your automation testing skills to work transforming government agencies, you will be tasked to work side by side with other engineers supporting a complex product with customers across the United States.

What you will do:

The selected candidate will lead and maintain the existing automation framework, understand and integrate with existing release pipelines, and develop new automated solutions for newly implemented changes to the test application. In addition, candidate will help integrate with various tools and processes to support the mission.

• Provide functional testing for all system level and application level enhancement across environment
• Provide expertise and support in the development and enhancement of business software systems.
• Support formal systems acceptability test, release validation and maintain relevant documentation including problem definition reports.
• Conduct testing on all system level and application specific changes prior to transmittal to enterprise environment(s).
• Create and manage all SIT defects and follow through to their resolution in IBM ELM
• Provide training to agency personnel to familiarize them with the functionality of the software.
• Create and maintain Test Cases and Test Case traceability mappings to verify functionalities have met stated requirements during testing of the application.
• Provide development support and project level testing of the application functionalities through defect resolution.
• Support Systems Testing, including knowledge transfer to the agency personnel as necessary
• Provide development support and project level testing of the application functionalities through defect resolution.
• Provide Systems Acceptability Test and Problem Definition Reporting Support
• Acquire domain knowledge through the testing process and understanding the end-to-end flow
• Attend Agile ceremonies as required including daily standup
• Escalate issues and questions as appropriate to Testing Leads/Project Managers
• Develop and publish Testing-related reports

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and a minimum of 8 years' relevant experience. Additional 4 years of experience maybe accepted in lieu of the degree
• Experience with QA processes and deliverables in an Agile/Scrum environment
• Strong understanding of automation concepts and approaches.
• Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining test automation scripts (UI/API/DB based) using java, TestNG, Selenium, and maven.
• Experience working with CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Github etc.)
• Proficient in defect tracking and analyzing root cause utilizing tools such as Jira, Rally etc.
• Must have worked on SQL, TOAD/SQL Developer, Selenium technologies.
• Contribute to Automation Frameworks, and automate test cases ensuring comprehensive automation-coverage
• Experience API microservice applications testing using Soap UI
• Good experience in validating XML/XML Schema and writing in XML related languages such as XPath
• Understand and utilize risk-based testing technique
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required agency clearance
• Must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualification:

• Federal agency experience is a plus
• Active public trust clearance

Benefits:

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

Target Salary Range

$80,000 - $128,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

• Paid Time-Off and Holidays
• Retirement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Career Development
• Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
• Paid Parental Leave
• Additional Benefits
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Care