Lead Automation Test Engineer - Level 4
Northrop Grumman3 days ago
Colorado Springs, CO, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$118k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead test engineers in developing standardized test processes, plans, documentation, and quality practices.
- Define and implement a test automation strategy and roadmap across multiple software products.
- Design and implement manual and automated regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites.
- Create or use test tools and harnesses for scripting, test data setup, and environment orchestration, and train other test engineers.
- Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and enforce quality gates.
- Improve product quality through testing, analysis, automation, peer review, and reduction of unreliable or inefficient tests.
- Interface with customers and stakeholders and present test strategies, plans, status, and results.
- Define and track test and quality metrics, including automation coverage, defect trends, and test stability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline and 8 years of related experience, or a master’s degree and 6 years, or a PhD and 4 years.
- Hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining test automation.
- Experience successfully leading a team of test engineers, including setting priorities, assigning work, and providing technical direction.
- Understanding of the software development lifecycle and how testing and automation integrate into it.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively with strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Active, in-scope U.S. Government-issued Secret clearance at the time of application and ability to maintain it.
- Preferred experience training or coaching others in test automation practices and tools.
- Preferred experience with C++, C#, Java, Python, automated test frameworks, API testing tools, UI automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, Atlassian tools, and test-quality metrics.
- Preferred experience with modeling and simulation systems, missile defense, command and control, or related domains.
Benefits
- Primary base salary range is $117,500 to $176,300 annually.
- Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company-paid holidays, and paid time off.
- Employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and discretionary bonuses.
- Relocation assistance may be available.
- The role requires daily onsite work with very limited remote or hybrid work, split between Schriever Space Force Base and the Northrop Grumman facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
- Travel is less than 10% of the time.
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About Northrop Grumman
Northrop Grumman designs and manufactures aircraft, spacecraft, missile defense, C4ISR, and cyber systems for the U.S. government, NASA, and allied nations. The company operates primarily through long-term defense and space contracts, delivering products and services spanning autonomous systems, sensors, software, and sustainment. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: NOC).