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Peraton · 1 day ago

Test Automation Engineer

St Louis, MO

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$112K/yr - $179K/yr

6+ years exp

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence. The Test Automation Engineer will develop, test, and maintain test automation scripts while supporting the operations and sustainment of test tool services for enterprise integration testing.

Information TechnologyRobotics

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Develop, test and maintain test automation scripts

Support the operations and sustainment of test tool services

Support test tool security accreditation and compliance

Draft user documentation

Work directly with test engineer subject matter experts to document and implement automation requirements to support test event execution

Coordinate with program and government leadership to manage the implementation, training, and maintenance associated with testing software used during enterprise testing activities

Set team priorities across two geographical locations and ensure timely completion of activities to ensure test readiness

Conduct engineering analysis to identify all tasks (both manual and analytic) associated with assessment of system capabilities and interfaces, product checkout, and architecture checkout

Conduct engineering analysis to identify candidate tasks for automation

Automate selected tasks through code/script generation, or by identifying existing in-house or commercially available solutions (including open-source alternatives); identify opportunities to consolidate tasks or processes to maximize efficiency or minimize cost

Develop tools that support objectives such as: functionality testing (UI and API), task automation, automated system monitoring, load testing, performance profiling, test objective and test data management, etc

Design and develop automation scripts, tools, or applications, and appropriate test scenarios to verify the performance, capacity, and scalability of services and capabilities, across multiple environments

Develop and maintain scripts within government furnished automation and management testing tools

Provide the expertise to analyze output of automated test tools, scripts, applications, and processes to evaluate against established criteria and develop a recommendation to the government and product vendor

Provide user training and support of testing tools and capabilities to customers, both government and contractor users

Coordinate with customers and software vendors to address and remediate issues identified while utilizing testing software within customer's test environment

Provide operations and support of software solutions deployed to customer's on-prem, DevOps, and cloud environments

Analyze performance trends and user experience data to identify parameters for automated governance processes

Qualification

Test automationProgramming languagesSoftware Development LifecycleAgile methodologiesProject management toolsGEOINT experienceSystems administrationCommunication skills

Required

Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain TS/SCI and polygraph

Minimum of 8 years with BS/BA; Minimum of 6 years with MS/MA; Minimum of 3 years with PhD; an additional 4 years experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

Experience in supporting the Testing phase of the Software Development Lifecycle

Experience in at least one high level programming language (e.g. Java, JavaScript, Python, Go). Demonstrated ability to use the example programming languages to create, modify, and execute automated test cases, test suites, and data integration between test tool Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)