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Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a Software Test Engineer to help with automated testing of our state-of-the-art software solutions delivered to our government customers. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an outstanding software engineering team and will support the team’s software deployed into our customers' classified networks. Our engineers are at the forefront of defining and building solutions to address the challenges faced by our end users, applying a go-fast, agile approach driven by small teams that rely on and value each team member's contributions.\nAs a Software Test Engineer, you’ll participate in planning, designing and executing end-to-end automated testing in support of the Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) of our products to customers worldwide. You’ll identify opportunities to increase the level of automated testing of our customer products and solutions, plan and execute strategies to achieve test automation objectives, continuously measure and improve the effectiveness of that testing based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and evaluate and integrate new testing tools, technologies, and procedures to achieve the organization’s technical objectives.\nIn this capacity, you’ll collaborate with engineering and product team members, architects, and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies, detailed test plans, and scenarios. You’ll always respect others' opinions, accept constructive criticism, share your views with a passion for improving the team’s performance, and collaborate openly and positively with your teammates.\nMost of the work will be on site in Leidos' facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Some level of remote/work from home is possible.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nCreate and maintain test methodology documentation for traceability and repeatability.\nIdentify regression test candidates for automation, plan automation activities across the team and automate test cases.\nExecute test cases/scripts including functional, regression, exploratory, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database.\nReport issues in work management tool (e.g., Jira) along with steps required to re-create the issue.\nParticipate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.\nParticipate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.\nSupport metrics program by creating, collecting and tracking test related metrics.\nInform innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy.\nBasic Qualifications:\nUS Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.\nBachelor’s degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s degree with 2+ years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.\nExperience with software development (Java, NodeJS/JS, C++, Rust).\nExperience with writing and/or developing test procedures and automated test scripts (e.g., Test Complete, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cucumber, QFTest or Cypress).\nPreferred Qualifications:\nUS Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or higher.\nExperience with Agile development principles and methodologies.\nExperience with automating unit, functional, integration and performance testing of web applications using industry-standard tools such as Playwright, JUnit, SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, and JMeter.\nWorking knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methodologies and tools.\nFamiliarity with software design patterns.\nSolid understanding of software development process fundamentals.\nExperience managing projects within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket).\nFamiliarity with component-based web frameworks & libraries (React, Vue, Angular).\nKnowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git).\nFamiliarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Gitlab).\nFamiliarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.\nExperience with USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process.\nDABAOPP1\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nOctober 30, 2026For 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.\nPay Range:\nPay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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