Senior Test Engineer

Location: Beale Air Force Base

Job
-OTHLOC-356

Location: Beale AFB, CA, US

Date Posted:

Category: Engineering and Sciences

Subcategory: Test Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS.SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work:

Description

SAIC is a trusted leader in delivering advanced command and control capabilities across the Department of the Air Force, bringing deep expertise in how cutting edge technologies are engineered, secured, and delivered to the fight. At the center of this mission, the Common Mission Control Center (CMCC) unifies data, sensors, mission applications, cloud based services, and emerging AI enabled automation to give warfighters a decisive edge-turning complex, multidomain information into fast, clear, and actionable decisions in the moments that matter most.

The CMCC System Facilitator contract positions SAIC to accelerate how new capabilities are integrated, tested, secured, and transitioned into operational use, working side by side with operators, engineers, Capability Providers, and government teams to ensure every delivery strengthens mission readiness. This effort offers the chance to directly shape how the Air Force sees, decides, and acts across all domains-making a tangible and immediate impact on warfighter effectiveness.

SAIC is seeking an experienced Senior Test Engineer to support system integration and verification across CMCC's multi environment test pipeline. This engineer will develop and execute manual and automated test cases, build and maintain test environments, and ensure capability releases meet functional, performance, interoperability, and security criteria defined by the System Integration Process (SIP).

Job

Duties Include:

• Develop, maintain, and execute manual and automated test cases and test scripts.
• Build and maintain test environments across cloud, hardware, software, and network components.
• Develop automated test workflows integrated into CI/CD pipelines; support continuous integration testing.
• Document and track defects, issues, and anomalies identified during testing, including DDI prototype issues.
• Perform integration, regression, performance, and interface testing to validate readiness for CCB advancement.
• Monitor testing progress through metrics, dashboards, and status reporting; identify areas for service improvement.
• Support code promotion through Development, Test, Staging, and Operational environments with validated test results.
• Collaborate with software, hardware, and cyber teams to assess test failures and recommend corrective actions.
• Maintain test documentation, test data, and artifacts required for Acceptance Test Reports (ATRs) and accreditation.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications &

Experience:

• Bachelors degree and 14 years of experience
• Test data management experience and hands on test automation expertise.
• Experience writing automated tests in Python; familiarity with Java or database programming is a plus.
• Experience with Dev Ops, continuous integration, and source control tools (Git Lab, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Azure Dev Ops).
• Experience with Agile development and testing methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).
• Ability to work across multidisciplinary domains including software, hardware, and cybersecurity.
• Experience building, configuring, and validating cloud based or containerized test environments.
• Strong understanding of testing for distributed, containerized, or cross-domain systems.

Desired Qualifications and

Experience:

• Experience with REST Assured, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, SoapUI, or similar automation tools.
• Experience with performance, load, or security scanning tools.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Helm, Docker/Podman, or cloud-native platform testing.
• Experience supporting CMCC, CBC2, AOC Falconer, DI, JFN, or similar DAF C3BM programs.

Desired Skills and

Certifications:

• ISTQB, Security+, AWS Cloud Practitioner, or Dev Sec Ops -related certifications.
• Experience writing automated test scripts (Python/Bash) and YAML-based CI/CD test pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Elastic.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government.

Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit  For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .