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As part of this team you will work with emerging service and distributed computing technologies for satellite situational awareness (SSA) data processing and distribution.\nThe EMMETT program, a next gen Space Domain Awareness (SDA) Indications and Warning (I&W) system, establishes a repository of resident space objects (RSOs), finds RSOs of interest, and provides data to ground operators. The EMMETT team uses: programmatics, sensor modeling, and system engineering expertise to deliver this world-class SDA I&W system.\nWhat you'll do:\nUtilize experience in maintaining and enhancing test scripts and creating and executing test procedures to support development, integration, regression and user acceptance testing. \nDesign and write test plans and procedures, analyze test results and develop and review code as necessary. \nDocument bugs in Jira and provide test reports. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree with 12+ years of relevant experience; OR Masters with 10+ years experience. Additional Four (4) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelors degree. \nThis position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and pass a polygraph within 30 days of employment or at customers request- contract requires TS/SCI with poly. The candidate must maintain the clearance. \nExperience with software testing\nExperience creating test plans/procedures\nExperience in an Agile software development environment - development, Integration, Preprod, Production Environments\nFamiliarity with either: Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, Active MQ\nBaseline utilization of core tools-including IC Connect, Swagger, Rancher, and Elastic -to execute testing tasks without team guidance.\nFunctional understanding of a system's environment and cluster configurations, including the independent identification and setup of API locations.\nWorking knowledge of services architecture and how individual system functionalities interact with one another.\nProactive, independent information gathering and self-study between team touchpoints, ensuring that each subsequent sync shows measurable progress.\nExperience working with Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible \nDesired Qualifications:\nActive Polygraph is preferred\nExperience supporting customer-facing test events or requirement sell-off activities \nExperience working in a Linux based environment \nExperience working with an RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, etc.) \nExperience creating or maintaining automated software testing scripts/tools (Selenium, Cypress, etc.) \nBenefits:\nPeraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan.\nPeraton Overview\nPeraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.\nTarget Salary Range\n$146,000 - $234,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. 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