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# Test Engineer

- **Company:** Leidos, Inc.
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £58,400.0 - £74,900.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Software Applications, JIRA, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Continuous Integration, Software Design Documents, Python (Programming Language), Requirements Traceability, Test Data, Postman, Delivery Pipeline, Test Scripts, Integration Tests, Api Management, Testrail
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/AD652C0133BA490780DAA1D497683D07/job/

## About the Role

* Test analysis, design and execution
 * Systems and integration testing
 * API testing and service validation
 * Manual, exploratory and automated testing
 * Test data creation and management
 * Defect reporting and lifecycle management
 * Requirements traceability
 * CI/CD testing awareness
 * Performance and security testing awareness
 * Clear technical documentation and communication

Required experience:

 * Experience testing IT applications, services or integrated solutions.
 * Experience creating test cases from requirements and design documents.
 * Experience using test and defect management tooling.
 * Ability to plan and manage assigned test activities with limited supervision.

Desired experience:

 * Cloud or SaaS platform testing.
 * TestRail, Jira, Robot Framework, Python, Postman or equivalent.
 * Automated tests within delivery pipelines.
 * ISTQB Foundation or equivalent.

## Description

Design, execute and maintain tests that demonstrate ESCS software, integrations, infrastructure and services meet their functional and non-functional requirements. The Testing Engineer works closely with analysts, developers, suppliers and users to produce clear, repeatable evidence.

The role you will play:

 * Convert requirements and designs into effective test conditions, cases and evidence.
 * Find defects early through a balanced use of manual, exploratory and automated testing.
 * Support objective decisions on quality and release readiness., * Review requirements and designs and derive test conditions, cases, scripts, data and environment needs.
 * Execute functional, integration, regression and relevant non-functional tests.
 * Develop and maintain automated API, service or user-interface tests where appropriate.
 * Record reproducible defects, evidence, severity and business impact.
 * Support defect triage, root-cause investigation and retesting.
 * Maintain requirements-to-test traceability and clear test reports.
 * Integrate automated tests with CI/CD pipelines where appropriate.
 * Work with suppliers and other teams to validate interfaces and end-to-end processes.


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