# Test Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Eagan, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking a Test Engineer to join the Air Traffic Business Area within the Homeland Sector, supporting the development of the Leidos Common Automation Platform (L-CAP).

L-CAP is a mission-critical, future-ready automation platform built on a hybrid cloud data mesh architecture, enabling next-generation air traffic management capabilities.

This role operates within a SAFe/Agile framework as part of an Agile Release Train (ART) delivering iterative value across the program.

**Responsibilities**

- Design and implement test automation frameworks for microservices-based platform components

- Build and maintain reusable test libraries and utilities for the L-CAP test infrastructure

- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines ensuring continuous quality gates

- Conduct performance testing to validate system behavior under load and stress conditions

- Execute integration testing across platform services, APIs, and external system interfaces

- Develop test plans and strategies aligned with sprint and PI objectives

- Analyze defect patterns and test metrics to identify quality trends and improvement opportunities

- Collaborate with development and systems engineering teams on testability and quality requirements

- Support test environment configuration and test data management activities

- Mentor junior test engineers on automation practices and testing methodologies

- Design and execute test scenarios based on operational ATC workflows ensuring modernized services replicate legacy system behavior

- Develop distributed service validation frameworks verifying inter-service communication, data flow, and performance under operational conditions

- Implement data-driven verification approaches supporting modernization of legacy automation functions

- Embrace an AI-first engineering culture by actively adopting AI-assisted development tools, automation, and modern engineering practices that improve productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.

**Core Technical Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline with 8+ years of experience, or Master’s degree with 6+ years

- Strong experience with test automation frameworks (Selenium, JUnit, pytest, or equivalent) and Java or JavaScript test development

- Expert integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar tools

- High experience with performance, integration, and API testing for distributed systems using tools such as JMeter or Gatling

- Knowledge of distributed service testing, including service virtualization, contract testing, chaos engineering, and data-driven test automation

- Experience with operational scenario-based testing, behavioral validation, root cause analysis, and defect investigation

- Familiarity with Agile/SAFe testing, quality engineering principles, test management, and defect tracking tools

- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

- U.S. citizenship required

- Successful completion of background investigations as required by the government customer

**Preferred / Desired Qualifications:**

- Python scripting and test development proficiency

- Experience testing microservices and event-driven architectures

- Knowledge of containerized test environments (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Experience with API testing frameworks (REST Assured, Postman/Newman)

- Familiarity with security testing tools and practices

- Experience in aviation, defense, or safety-critical testing domains

- Knowledge of test-driven development (TDD) and behavior-driven development (BDD)

- Experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., code generation, automated testing, intelligent debugging)

- Experience testing legacy-to-modern migration verifying functional equivalence between old and new systems

**Benefits:** No benefits information provided.

**Pay Range:** $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

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## Skills

### Required
- test automation frameworks
- Java or JavaScript
- CI/CD pipelines
- performance testing
- integration testing
- API testing
- distributed service testing
- Agile/SAFe testing

### Nice to have
- Python scripting
- microservices
- event-driven architectures
- containerized test environments
- security testing tools
- aviation
- defense
- safety-critical testing
- test-driven development
- behavior-driven development
- AI-assisted development tools

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