1 month ago
Dahlgren, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$150k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain comprehensive software test strategies and plans covering objectives, scope, schedules, test levels, techniques, environments, deliverables, resources, and execution requirements.
- Develop, review, and execute test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, and test data.
- Lead exploratory, system, integration, unit, end-to-end, contract, security, and performance testing activities.
- Promote Test-Driven Development practices and evaluate, develop, and maintain automated testing tools, scripts, and frameworks.
- Manage test personnel by assigning work, setting priorities, monitoring progress, and providing technical guidance, mentoring, and training.
- Review test artifacts, track defects, coordinate resolutions, maintain traceability, and monitor test-performance metrics.
- Analyze test results and prepare reports for Program Test & Evaluation Management and Release Readiness Reviews.
- Improve testing processes and collaborate with program stakeholders to resolve complex software testing and engineering issues.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in an engineering, scientific, or technical discipline, or five years of demonstrated and established testing expertise in lieu of the degree.
- At least five years of software engineering experience supporting a real-time, software-intensive weapon, command, or intelligence system, including software requirements definition.
- At least three years of specialized experience in software engineering, requirements analysis, design tradeoff studies, structured requirements analysis, software requirements definition, engineering analysis, or software specification development.
- Experience developing weapon-system specifications with requirements-management tools such as DOORS.
- Experience across software analysis, requirements, design, code, and testing activities.
- Experience with distributed systems such as databases, application servers, and web front ends.
- Ability to lead a critical technical area, prioritize tasks and resources, solve technical problems, and work effectively in a dynamic team.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance; U.S. citizenship is required to obtain the clearance.
- Preferred qualifications include NAVSEA Test Lead experience, large-scale Agile and DevSecOps experience, Docker, Red Hat OpenShift, vSphere, TFS/Azure DevOps Server, microservices, CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, and Top Secret clearance.
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.
- Position located in Dahlgren, Virginia; posting dated 10/05/2026 and open until filled, with a closing date no earlier than three days after posting.
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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.