Software Tester​/Developer Engineer

Overview

Description

At Leidos, we're not just delivering solutions—we're pioneering the future of defense and intelligence technology. Our diverse teams unite around empowering customers to succeed in their critical missions, with integrity, community investment, and sustainable building for tomorrow.

Shape the future of digital defense.

Our Digital Modernization sector leads next-generation technology, architecting cutting-edge solutions in cyber defense, logistics optimization, security operations, and decision intelligence. We support mission-critical systems that keep our nation secure.

Your opportunity to lead transformation.

We’re seeking a Software Tester/Developer Engineer to play a key role in our cloud transformation efforts for the United States Coast Guard at C5

ISC in Alexandria, VA
. You will support migrations and modernization of legacy, mission-critical Coast Guard capabilities to the Coast Guard’s Mission Cloud.

Ready to architect solutions that matter?

As a Software Tester/Developer Engineer
, you will have the opportunity to design, develop, test, troubleshoot, and debug software programs for enhancements and new software-intensive systems and products. Apply appropriate principles, standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the software development life cycle. Duties include software requirements analysis, development of software products and tools used for design, development, and maintenance of infrastructure and platforms.

• Participate in program Agile initiatives to support innovation and enhancement of infrastructure automation and maintenance through iteration/functionality testing within a cloud environment.
• Leverage Dev Ops practices to ensure repeatability and configuration management of test cases/scripts are maintained and continuously improved.
• Collaborate with team members (Scrum Master, Cloud Engineer, Dev Sec Ops ) to develop test approaches emphasizing automation of recurring/regression test cases through selected toolsets.
• Develop and document end-to-end functionality test case narratives using task management systems (JIRA/Confluence) and support performance testing/evaluation activities.

• Requires BS and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2+ years of prior relevant experience; additional years considered in lieu of a degree.
• 3–5 years of testing experience with at least 2 years in cloud environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Strong scripting/programming:
  Bash, Python, and at least one build system (Maven/Gradle/npm/Bazel) and Docker image build knowledge.
• Understanding of monitoring and logging tools (Cloud Watch, Azure Monitor, Prometheus).
• Knowledge of networking concepts (VPC, subnets, load balancers, DNS).
• Proficiency in major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Understanding of cloud services architecture, networking, storage, and compute resources.
• Experience with cloud-native testing approaches and distributed systems testing.
• Proven experience implementing pipelines in Harness (CI + CD) or other modern CI/CD platforms; comfortable with visual and YAML pipeline editors.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools like Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Azure Resource Manager, or Ansible.
• Ability to write, review, and test infrastructure code.
• Understanding of version control for infrastructure and Git Ops practices.
• Automated testing frameworks and tools (Selenium, pytest, Jest, etc.).
• API testing tools (Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI).
• Performance and load testing (JMeter, Load Runner, k6).
• Multi-region and cross-availability zone testing.
• Compliance and security testing in cloud environments.

• Cloud provider certifications (AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Fundamentals, GCP Associate) and testing certifications (ISTQB, CSTE).
• Dev Ops or automation-focused certifications.

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