Job Description
Description Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense, space, cyber and commercial fields, Leidos provides responsive, cost-effective engineering, scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture, positive work environment, technical excellence, and resilient business ethics.
Within the Defense Sector, the Airborne Systems Business Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Aviation Software Test Engineer to work in our Huntsville office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help test and develop software for tactical strike, sensors, CUAS, and UAS solutions.
This position focuses on automated testing, development of robust, innovative software test infrastructures and frameworks, integration testing, informal manual testing, formal software qualification testing, fielding and support, and maintenance of software products. Software products range from analysis tools/simulations, mission planning software, and components of mission-critical systems.
Primary Responsibilities. - This test position involves direct participation as an integral team member who performs key roles with respect to test planning, test strategy and design, test execution, software engineering processes, and recommendations on product quality.
- This position also involves reviewing, editing, and generating various documents used for engineering and testing purposes per industry standards.
Basic Qualifications. - Candidate should possess at least a bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.
- Candidate should have 2-8 years of relevant technical experience.
- Candidate should have recent experience with software development and/or writing software test scripts using one of the following Object-Oriented Programming languages: C++, Python, or Java.
- Candidate should have experience writing unit and integration tests with unit test frameworks.
- Candidate should possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software test, configuration management, and software quality engineering concepts.
- Candidate should have experience developing test methods and procedures for software products using scripting and/or compiled languages.
- Candidate should have a working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
- Candidate should have analytical and process improvement skills along with a personal drive for details and quality workmanship.
- Candidate should possess an aptitude for the technical skills required for software test and software quality engineering concepts.
- Candidate should demonstrate familiarity with Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
- Candidate should have good communication skills.
Security Clearance Qualifications. - Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Security Clearance.
Preferred Qualifications. - Experience writing user interface (UI) tests with automated UI testing technologies.
- Experience writing software in compliance with applicable industry safety and cyber standards (MIL-STD-882E, DISA STIGs).
- Candidate is expected to accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.
- The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiple small teams.
Original Posting: April 25, 2025
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range: Pay Range $85,150.00 - $153,925.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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