Senior Field Software Test Engineer

SAIC is seeking a Senior Field Software Test Engineer with strong experience performing software acceptance, integration, and regression testing, as well as configuration management. The candidate will take a key role in expanding the scale and accelerate the pace of our research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) supporting national security client projects at our facility in Upper Marlboro, MD and at other locations within the continental US. This role offers the opportunity to work with multi-disciplinary teams of engineers, data scientists, and AI scientists and contribute to innovative technology development and experimentation., * Coordinate with software engineering teams to configure, deploy, and test applications and microservices on on-premises infrastructure and on cloud platforms.

• Develop and maintain configuration documentation and software test plans.
• Perform and document tests of APIs and microservices, including containerized services, communicate issues to development teams, and follow up to ensure resolution.
• Coordinate testing activities with ongoing IDSL projects and priorities set up by program and technical leadership.
• Contribution to maintenance of software testing environments.
• Facilitate seamless code promotion into production by communicating issues identified by testing and verifying resolution.
• Support cross-functional teams by ensuring that our software products are tested and ready to meet changing research needs and client requirements.

• Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline with 5+ years of experience or Master of Science (MS) with 3+ years of experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust requiring U.S. Citizenship
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with teams across locations.

Technical Requirements

• Strong experience testing and configuring software on premises and at field locations sites.
• Strong experience with at least one programming language (e.g., GO).
• Experience testing both front end and back end software products.
• Experience testing APIs using tools like Postman.
• Experience testing IoT and USB device integrations.
• Experience with performance and load testing using tools like Gatling.
• Experience with test automation suites such as Seleneum.
• Experience with agile software development and tools such as Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, or similar.
• Understanding with event-driven systems or distributed architectures.
• Understanding of infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with identity management principles and tools such as Active Directory.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps best-practices.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation’s most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability