1 month ago
Hanover, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$170k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and continuously improve program-level software and system testing strategies, methodologies, standards, and SOPs.
- Develop, maintain, and execute test plans, procedures, cases, scripts, automated tests, and System Verification Plans.
- Define release acceptance criteria, regression testing methods, verification requirements, and test coverage across applications and infrastructure.
- Analyze requirements and system changes to determine verification methods, dependencies, impacts, and testability concerns.
- Coordinate verification and validation activities across development teams and support unit, integration, system, regression, performance, and acceptance testing.
- Analyze test results, investigate failures, identify root causes and defects, coordinate corrective actions, and perform retesting.
- Develop and maintain test automation to improve coverage, repeatability, and efficiency.
- Perform verification and restoration-to-service testing after outages, maintenance, and major configuration changes.
- Maintain complete, traceable, and audit-ready test evidence for releases, maintenance activities, and system verification.
- Provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced QA and test personnel and recommend improvements to testing tools and practices.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field and eight years of applicable software QA/testing experience, or a bachelor’s degree and thirteen years of experience.
- Security+ certification or equivalent.
- TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing software or system test plans, test cases, test procedures, and verification activities.
- Experience analyzing requirements, developing testing approaches, maintaining automated tests or test automation frameworks, and analyzing complex test failures.
- Experience with source control, defect tracking, test documentation, regression testing, and Agile software development practices.
- Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems and experience testing virtualized, containerized, or integrated environments.
- Preferred qualifications include experience establishing quality practices across multiple teams, Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines, requirements traceability, test management, test reporting, and automation scripting.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Paid time off and holidays.
- Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching.
- Educational reimbursement.
- Parental leave.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Tax-saving options.
- Disability and life insurance.
- Pet insurance.
- Work is performed in SCIF and non-SCIF contractor-site environments, with core hours from 1000-1400 and occasional testing or maintenance support before or after course hours.
About Amentum
Amentum provides engineering, operations and maintenance, logistics, and mission support services to U.S. federal agencies and allied governments, including defense and energy programs. Its business centers on large, long-term government contracts spanning defense, space, nuclear cleanup, and infrastructure, with program management and technical services at the core. Headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia, it was formed in 2020 from the spinoff of AECOM’s Management Services division.