6 days ago
St. Louis, MO, USA +5 moreMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$87k - $157k/yr
Responsibilities
- Plan, develop, and execute manual test cases and detailed procedures against requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, smoke, exploratory, and end-to-end testing of web applications and associated services.
- Conduct API testing and validate HTTP requests and responses, JSON payloads, authentication, error handling, and data integrity.
- Create and maintain test plans, scenarios, cases, procedures, execution records, and requirements traceability documentation.
- Identify, document, track, verify, and regress software defects using Jira or comparable tools.
- Collaborate with developers, product owners, business analysts, and mission stakeholders to define testing strategies and investigate defects.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and communicate testing progress, defect trends, risks, and software quality.
- Support test data preparation, environment readiness, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and continuous testing-process improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field with 4-8 years of relevant experience, or a master's degree with 2-6 years; equivalent experience may substitute for a degree.
- At least 4 years of software testing, quality engineering, or software validation experience.
- Demonstrated experience with manual functional, integration, regression, and system testing of enterprise software applications.
- Experience developing test plans, procedures, cases, and scenarios from software requirements and user stories.
- Hands-on API testing experience with Bruno, Postman, or comparable tools, including RESTful APIs, HTTP methods, status codes, JSON, and request/response validation.
- Experience documenting, tracking, retesting, and resolving software defects and working in Agile or Scrum development environments.
- Experience using test management and issue-tracking tools such as Jira and validating end-to-end business processes across application components.
- Hands-on experience with geospatial applications or GEOINT data.
- Active Top Secret/SCI clearance, ability to successfully pass a polygraph examination, and U.S. citizenship as required by the contract.
- Preferred qualifications include DoD or IC program experience, OAuth 2.0, JWT, role-based access control, SQL, microservices, distributed systems, AWS, Linux, application logs, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, accessibility, usability, security testing, formal test documentation, and relevant testing certifications.
Benefits
- The position may be performed in Gaithersburg, MD; Alexandria, VA; Chantilly, VA; Englewood, CO; St. Louis, MO; or Tucson, AZ, with Gaithersburg identified as the program's primary work location.
About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.