# Automation Engineer Junior

We are currently seeking a motivated and energetic entry-level Automation Engineer to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career. This position requires 4 days on-site per week in Ashburn, VA for the first year of employment. After the first year, you will have the option to do 2 days on-site per week. Position Summary The Automation Engineer will participate in software testing, creation and implementation of Test Strategies, Plans, and Automated Test Scripts as well as other aspects of the software development lifecycle. The candidate will be responsible for developing and testing web applications as dictated by project requirement. The ideal candidate will have Java development and testing framework experience, as this role will require Java Programming. Job Responsibilities Developing automation test scripts. Generating test data and performing Data Validation. Data interface message testing with JSON and XML message sets. Developing SQL or Unix scripts for test data generation or test harness automation. Execute regression, functional, and system testing. Verifying results and producing test summaries and defect reports. Identifying defects and requirement discr

- **Id**: 3938288
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/saic-automation-engineer-junior>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Ashburn, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-02T18:26:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-02
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T10:40:47Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3794
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, Systems Integrators, Engineering Services

## Company

- **Id**: 58788
- **Name**: SAIC
- **Domain**: saic.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/saic>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 93
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.892
- **Repost share**: 0.011
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 24
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **Selenium** — Optional: no
- **Spring Boot** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **TestNG** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: yes
- **SOAP** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-08T10:40:47Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 85
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.848
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 24
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T12:12:06Z

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