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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Quality Assurance Engineer - **Company:** Peraton Inc - **Location:** Aurora, CO, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $112,000.0 - $179,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Testing (Software), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Agile Methodology, Systems Engineering, JIRA, Code Review, Relational Databases, Linux, Distributed Systems, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Ansible, Swagger, Selenium, Software Quality Assurance (SQA), Data Processing, Test Scripts, Cypress (Programming Language), Gitlab, Kubernetes, Rancher, Apache Kafka, Jenkins - **Published:** June 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/17319214/Software-Quality-Assurance-Engineer-Colorado-Aurora ## About the Role * Associates degree with 10+ years of relevant experience; OR Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience; OR Masters with 6+ years experience. Additional Four (4) years of experience may be considered in lieu of a Bachelors degree. * This 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. * Four (4) years experience with software testing * Four (4) years experience creating test plans/procedures * Four (4) years experience in an Agile software development environment - development, Integration, Preprod, Production Environments * Familiarity with either: Rancher, Kafka, Kubernetes, Active MQ * Baseline utilization of core tools-including IC Connect, Swagger, Rancher, and Elastic-to execute testing tasks without team guidance. * Functional understanding of a system's environment and cluster configurations, including the independent identification and setup of API locations. * Working knowledge of services architecture and how individual system functionalities interact with one another. * Proactive, independent information gathering and self-study between team touchpoints, ensuring that each subsequent sync shows measurable progress. * Experience working with Jira, Jenkins, Gitlab, Ansible Desired Qualifications: * Active Polygraph is preferred * Experience supporting customer-facing test events or requirement sell-off activities * Experience working in a Linux based environment * Experience working with an RDBMS (Postgres, MySQL, etc.) * Experience creating or maintaining automated software testing scripts/tools (Selenium, Cypress, etc.) ## Description Peraton is seeking a Software Test Engineer in Herndon, VA or Aurora, CO location to support Intelligence Community and DoD customers as part of a talented, high-performing team. As part of this team you will work with emerging service and distributed computing technologies for satellite situational awareness (SSA) data processing and distribution. The 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. 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