Lead Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer with Security Clearance

About Peraton Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure. About

The Role Peraton is delivering advanced mission planning, digital engineering, and command-and-control capabilities supporting the U.S. Government's space communications enterprise. Our team uses modern MBSE practices to translate mission needs into precise, traceable, and verifiable technical requirements across a complex, multi-system environment. As a Lead Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of core platform services that enable scalable, resilient satellite ground communications and data-transport capabilities.

You will design and maintain automated testing frameworks, validate complex web interfaces and microservices, and drive quality assurance practices that uphold mission-critical standards for U.S. Government systems. In this role, you will lead automation strategy, collaborate closely with cross-functional engineering teams, and ensure test solutions align with system requirements, technical objectives, and program compliance expectations. This position may be supported from any of the following locations:
Colorado Springs, CO;
Arlington, VA; or Seal Beach, CA. What You'll Do
* Architect, design, and evolve scalable automated testing frameworks using Cypress (JavaScript/Type Script) to validate complex web interfaces, microservices/APIs, and end-to-end system workflows essential to mission operations.

* Provide technical leadership to the QA automation team, defining automation strategies, establishing robust test procedures, and shaping best-practice approaches to Agile/SAFe execution.

* Lead the development, compilation, and execution of automated regression and functional test suites, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality software across multiple integrated subsystems. Drive defect management activities in Jira with a focus on root-cause identification and long-term quality improvement.

* Oversee the design, maintenance, and governance of test control databases (Postgres, MySQL), ensuring high-confidence data sets, accuracy, and proper distribution of test data supporting enterprise-scale development and integration efforts.

* Perform advanced system analysis in Linux environments-conducting deep-dive log reviews, troubleshooting distributed applications, running diagnostics, and guiding junior engineers through complex debugging scenarios.

* Lead formal test reviews and customer-facing discussions, clearly presenting acceptance criteria, test results, and technical rationale to government stakeholders while addressing high-priority concerns with confidence.

* Own the integration of Cypress automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Lab CI) across AWS cloud and containerized environments, optimizing pipeline performance, reliability, headless execution, and parallelization strategies.

* Collaborate at a technical lead level with developers, system engineers, analysts, and mission specialists to influence requirement definition, shaping testability considerations early in the lifecycle and mitigating architectural risks.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications
* Associates degree and 14+ years of experience; OR bachelor's degree and 12+ years of experience; OR master's degree and 10+ years of experience. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered…