Peraton is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO location 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.
Required Qualifications:
- Associates degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of relevant experience; OR Masters with 6+ years 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 SCI eligibility 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.
- Four (4) years experience with software testing
- Four (4) years experience creating test plans/procedures
- Four (4) years experience in an Agile software development environment - development, Integration, Preprod, Production Environments
- Familiarity with either: Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, Active MQ
- Baseline utilization of core tools—including IC Connect, Swagger, Rancher, and Elastic—to execute testing tasks without team guidance.
- Functional understanding of a system's environment and cluster configurations, including the independent identification and setup of API locations.
- Working knowledge of services architecture and how individual system functionalities interact with one another.
- Proactive, independent information gathering and self-study between team touchpoints, ensuring that each subsequent sync shows measurable progress.
- Experience working with Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible
Desired Qualifications:
- Active Polygraph is preferred
- 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.)
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.
Peraton OverviewPeraton 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.
Target Salary Range$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. EEOEEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.Skills Required
- Associate degree with 10 or more years of relevant experience, bachelor's degree with 8 or more years, or master's degree with 6 or more years; four additional years may substitute for a bachelor's degree
- Minimum Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and ability to pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at the customer's request; must maintain clearance
- Four years of software testing experience
- Four years of experience creating test plans and procedures
- Four years of experience in an Agile software development environment across development, integration, preproduction, and production environments
- Familiarity with Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, or ActiveMQ
- Baseline proficiency with IC Connect, Swagger, Rancher, and Elastic for independent testing tasks
- Functional understanding of system environments and cluster configurations, including independently identifying and setting up API locations
- Working knowledge of service architectures and interactions among system functionalities
- Proactive, independent information gathering and self-study
- Experience with Jira, Jenkins, GitLab, and Ansible
- Active polygraph
- Experience supporting customer-facing test events or requirements sell-off activities
- Experience working in a Linux-based environment
- Experience with a relational database management system such as PostgreSQL or MySQL
- Experience creating or maintaining automated software testing scripts or tools such as Selenium or Cypress
Peraton Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Peraton and has not been reviewed or approved by Peraton.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare offerings are described as broad, including medical, dental, vision, mental health support, and specialty programs like virtual physical therapy and surgical/cancer care navigation. Medical coverage is also characterized as a standout part of the overall package in terms of perceived quality.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support includes a 401(k) with employer matching and is repeatedly positioned as a strong component of total rewards. The 401(k) benefit is frequently singled out as one of the most valued parts of the package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are positioned as robust, including PTO, holidays, paid sick days, and floating holidays, with some roles offering notably generous accrual. Leave breadth is reinforced by related programs such as short/long-term disability and bereavement leave.
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What We Do
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.
Why Work With Us
We are fearlessly solving the world’s most complex challenges to keep people safe and secure. You can be a part of protecting and promoting that freedom around the world.
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