Job Description

Program Overview

The program is a next generation Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system. It establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators.

About The Role

Peraton is seeking a Senior software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA  to support Intelligence Community and DoD customers as part of a talented, high-performing team. As part of this team you will work with emerging service and distributed computing technologies for satellite situational awareness (SSA) data processing and distribution.

The EMMETT program, a next gen Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system, establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators. The EMMETT team uses: programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world-class SDA I&W system.

What you'll do:

• Utilize experience in maintaining and enhancing test scripts and creating and executing test procedures to support development, integration, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Design and write test plans and procedures, analyze test results and develop and review code as necessary.
• Document bugs in Jira and provide test reports.

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Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; OR master's degree with 10+ years of relevant experience. Additional four (4) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a bachelors degree. 
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Top Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance.
• Two (2) years experience with software testing
• Two (2) years experience creating test plans/procedures
• Two (2) years experience in an Agile software development environment

Desired Qualifications:

• Experience supporting customer-facing test events or requirement sell-off activities
• Experience working in a Linux based environment
• Experience working with an RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, etc.)
• Experience creating or maintaining automated software testing scripts/tools (Selenium, Cypress, etc.)
• Experience working with Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible
• Experience with Agile

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.

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.

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