Senior Aviation Software Test Engineer

Leidos is dedicated to making the world a safer place. This starts with helping our customers in the Defense Industry achieve their critical missions. Our dedicated Defense Group employees are solving critical challenges across the globe. At Leidos we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers success. We empower our teams contribute to our communities and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers our people and our community. Our Mission Vision and Values guide the way we do business. With offices across the United States engaging in the defense space cyber and commercial fields Leidos provides responsive cost-effective engineering scientific and IT solutions. Leidos is well known for our people-oriented culture positive work environment technical excellence and resilient business ethics.

Within the Defense Sector the Kinetic Effects Business Area at Leidos currently has an opening for a talented Senior Aviation Software Test Engineer to work onsite in our Huntsville office. This is an exciting opportunity to use your experience to help test and develop software for tactical strike sensors CUAS and UAS solutions.

This position focuses on automated testing development of robust innovative software test infrastructures and frameworks integration testing informal manual testing formal software qualification testing fielding and support and maintenance of software products. Software products range from analysis tools/simulations mission planning software and components of mission-critical systems.

Primary Responsibilities

• Direct participation as an integral team member who performs key roles with respect to test planning test strategy and design test execution software engineering processes and recommendations on product quality.

• Reviewing editing and generating various documents used for engineering and testing purposes per industry standards.

• Developing automated scripts in Linux and Windows for a variety of applications.

• Perform as part of an agile software team for tasking and progress reporting.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Software Engineering Computer Science Computer Engineering Electrical Engineering Aeronautical Engineering Mathematics or equivalent technical degree.

• At least 12 years of prior relevant technical experience with BS degree or at least 10 years with MS degree.

• At least 3 years of relevant leadership experience leading teams.

• Recent experience with software development and/or writing software test scripts using one of the following Object-Oriented Programming languages: C Python or Java.

• Experience in both manual and automated test tools and techniques.

• Aptitude for the technical skillsrequired for software test configuration management and software quality engineeringconcepts.

• Experience developing test methodsand procedures for software products using scripting and/or compiled languages.

• Working knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office(Outlook Word Excel and PowerPoint).

• Good communication skills.

• Resident of the North Alabama area or willing to relocate to the Huntsville - North Alabama AL area.

• US Citizenship is required and ability to obtain and maintain and DoD Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing user interface (UI) tests with automated UI testing technologies.

• Experience writing software in compliance with applicable industry safety and cyber standards (MIL-STD-882E DISA STIGs).

• Candidate is expected to accept constructive feedback from more senior software team members.

• The ability to work across multiple products under development by multiplesmall teams.

• Experience with Agentic AI coding tools.

• Experience with designing and implementing software solutions for embedded systems and applications.

• Experience with creating and managing database architectures using object-oriented implementation principles.

• Experience with configuring and optimizing software with Ubuntu 22.04 environments.

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