# Software Test Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a talented Software Test Engineer to work in our Huntsville office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help test software for Tactical strike guided munition programs.

The role focuses on automated testing, development of robust 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**

- Participate as an integral team member in test planning, test strategy and design, test execution, software engineering processes, and recommendations on product quality.

- Review, edit, and generate various documents used for engineering and testing purposes per industry standards.

- Provide overall software test leadership to the program, including mentoring and developing junior software engineers, working with software IPT lead, and representing software test during IPT meetings.

- Communicate with customers, end users, and team members on a frequent basis.

**Basic Qualifications**

- Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent technical degree with an overall GPA of 3.0 or higher.

- 8+ years of relevant technical experience with BS degree or 6+ with MS degree.

- U.S. citizen and eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Department of Defense security clearance.

- Relevant technical experience must include testing and/or troubleshooting embedded software or embedded-adjacent applications.

- Resident of North Alabama or willing to relocate to the Huntsville-North Alabama area.

- Experience leading, mentoring, or providing technical direction to software test teams on multi-disciplinary projects.

- Proven track record of implementing automated software testing principles on embedded systems.

- Advanced competency in software development in C, C++, Java, or Python programming languages.

- Ability to work across multiple products under development by multiple small teams.

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Experience writing user interface (UI) tests with automated UI testing technologies.

- Experience with applicable industry standards (IEEE 12207, CMMI, MIL-STD-882e, DO-178C and/or DO-278, RMF).

- Knowledge of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) principles and application.

- Experience with containerization, CI/CD pipelines, and microservices technology.

- Knowledge of guidance & control algorithms.

- Knowledge of navigation systems.

- Knowledge of mission planning systems (NOMS, JMPS).

- Knowledge of sensors used in guidance, navigation, or mission planning systems.

- Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and SysML.

- Understanding of hardware-software integration and software systems engineering principles.

- Agile Scrum Master experience.

- Excellent communication skills with ability to present to senior leadership and government customers.

- Formal experience in an official test-team leadership role (e.g., Test Lead, QA Manager, IPT Lead) with people-management responsibilities.

**Pay Range:** $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

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## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Java
- Python
- embedded software testing
- automated software testing

### Nice to have
- UI testing
- containerization
- CI/CD pipelines
- microservices technology
- Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
- SysML

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