# Embedded Software Test Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Huntsville, AL
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

Leidos is seeking an Embedded Software Test Engineer to join a multi-disciplinary team in a matrixed organisation, focusing on missile defence systems.

The role involves supporting testing and validation activities for embedded systems within complex technical environments. You will need extensive software testing and automation experience, with a strong background in Python scripting, debugging, and test framework development.

**Responsibilities** The Embedded Software Test Engineer will:

- Support testing and validation activities for embedded systems

- Collaborate with software developers, systems engineers, hardware engineers, and program stakeholders to ensure quality, reliability, and performance of embedded system applications

- Troubleshoot across embedded software, networking, hardware interfaces, and automated test environments

- Support the full software test lifecycle from planning through post-test analysis and reporting

**Requirements**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related technical discipline

- 4+ years of experience in software testing, integration, and verification of embedded systems

- Experience testing embedded systems and integrated hardware/software platforms

- Strong Python scripting and debugging skills

- Experience with software automation testing and automated test environments

- Ability to analyse and interpret complex test data

- Experience with network analysis and troubleshooting tools such as Wireshark

- Experience using Jira for defect tracking, task management, and SAFe workflow support

- Must be able to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret security clearance

**Preferred Qualifications**

- Develop, maintain, and execute automated and manual test procedures for embedded software applications

- Design and implement automation frameworks and test harnesses

- Perform testing within simulated environments, HWIL, and SIL test environments

- Validate interfaces between software, firmware, and hardware components

- Conduct post-analysis of complex test data and generate detailed findings and reports

**Benefits** No specific benefits mentioned.

**Pay Range** $87,100.00 - $157,450.00

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## Skills

### Required
- Python scripting
- debugging
- test framework development
- software testing
- automation testing
- network analysis
- troubleshooting
- Jira
- Wireshark
- Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs)
- CI/CD pipelines

### Nice to have
- automated test scripts
- test harnesses
- simulated environments
- HWIL
- SIL test environments
- post-test analysis

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