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Automated Software Test Engineer

2025-158900

CAtegory:

Quality Assurance

Clearance:

Top Secret/SCI with Poly

Location:

Herndon
,
Virginia

Telecommute:

No remote/telework allowed
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.

Program Overview
About The Role

The selected Software Test Engineer will have a background in maintaining and enhancing automated test scripts and creating and executing test procedures to support development, integration, regression and user acceptance testing.

 

The candidate will design and write automated test plans and procedures, analyze test results and develop and review code as necessary. In addition, the Test Engineer will document bugs in the provided tracking system and provide test reports.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience OR a Master’s degree with 6+ years of relevant experience OR A PhD with 3+ years of relevant experience; An additional 4 years of experience maybe considered in lieu of a degree requirement
  • Familiarity with GitHub workflows or other CI/CD approaches that will work with Git repositories.
  • Experience with automated test frameworks and tools such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Pytest, Unittest, and others.
  • Experience maintaining and enhancing existing automated software testing scripts
  • TS/SCI with current Poly

 

Preferred Qualifications

  • Hands on experience with test automation in cloud-native or containerized architectures.
  • Knowledge of GitHub Packages and artifact management for test results.
  • Experience setting up branch protection rules and required status checks based on test outcomes.
  • Experience working with developers to ensure test coverage and quality gates.
  • Familiarity with code coverage tools and static analysis.

 

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

Details

Target Salary Range: $112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.

Employee Benefits

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.