# Senior Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer - Automation and Non-Functional Testing (AWS / Performance) Programme Name: Logistics Commodities & Services Transformation (LCST) Location: The role is based in our Bristol office About the Role We are looking for a capable Senior Test Engineer with approximately 10 years of overall software testing experience, including 2-4 years of hands-on experience in non-functional testing and test automation, and the confidence to take ownership of these areas to ensure our cloud-native applications are fast, reliable, and scalable. In this role, you will design automated test suites, execute performance and load tests, and build synthetic monitoring solutions within an AWS environment. You will work closely with developers and DevOps engineers to catch bottlenecks early and maintain high system availability. While this is a hands-on technical role rather than a formal line-management position, you will act as the go-to subject matter expert for performance and automation, helping shape our testing strategy and supporting junior team members. Key Responsibilities: Manage the Non-Functional Test Phase: Able to run and manage the non-functional test phase end to end, inc

- **Id**: 4327029
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/leidos-senior-test-engineer-6>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Bristol, United Kingdom
- **Countries**: GB
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-13T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-13
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-15T01:46:27Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8111
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Annual leave, Equity, Gym membership, Health insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, C4ISR, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 7791
- **Name**: Leidos
- **Domain**: leidos.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/leidos>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 339
- **Ghost share**: 0.006
- **Stale share**: 0.912
- **Repost share**: 0.012
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 27
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-14T05:58:10Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 44700
- **Max**: 57300
- **Currency**: GBP
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 75692

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Amazon CloudWatch** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **API Gateway** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cypress** — Optional: no
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: no
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **InfluxDB** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Pytest** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest-Assured** — Optional: no
- **Selenium** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: yes
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: yes
- **Datadog** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **Dynatrace** — Optional: yes
- **Gatling** — Optional: yes
- **k6** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: yes
- **New Relic** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-15T01:46:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 27
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-15T02:24:30Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 75692
- **Is top pay**: no

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