Senior Field Software Test Engineer

SAIC

SAIC is seeking a Senior Field Software Test Engineer with strong experience performing software acceptance, integration, and regression testing, as well as configuration management. The candidate will take a key role in expanding the scale and accelerate the pace of our research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) supporting national security client projects at our facility in Upper Marlboro, MD and at other locations within the continental US. This role offers the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, data scientists, and AI scientists and contribute to innovative technology development and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate with software engineering teams to configure, deploy, and test applications and microservices on on-premises infrastructure and on cloud platforms.
• Develop and maintain configuration documentation and software test plans.
• Perform and document tests of APIs and microservices, including containerized services, communicate issues to development teams, and follow up to ensure resolution.
• Coordinate testing activities with ongoing IDSL projects and priorities set up by program and technical leadership.
• Contribution to maintenance of software testing environments.
• Facilitate seamless code promotion into production by communicating issues identified by testing and verifying resolution.
• Support cross-functional teams by ensuring that our software products are tested and ready to meet changing research needs and client requirements.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline with 5+ years of experience or Master of Science (MS) with 3+ years of experience.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship

• Strong communication and collaboration skills with teams across locations.

• Technical Requirements

• Strong experience testing and configuring software on premises and at field locations sites.

• Strong experience with at least one programming language (e.g., GO).

• Experience testing both front end and back end software products.

• Experience testing APIs using tools like Postman.

• Experience testing IoT and USB device integrations.

• Experience with performance and load testing using tools like Gatling.

• Experience with test automation suites such as Seleneum.

• Experience with agile software development and tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, or similar.

• Understanding with event-driven systems or distributed architectures.

• Understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.

• Familiarity with identity management principles and tools such as Active Directory.

• Familiarity with DevSecOps best-practices.

• Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.