Test Engineer
PeratonResponsibilities
Peraton is seeking a Test Engineer to join our innovative engineering team of qualified, diverse individuals. The ideal candidate will evaluate and design testing procedures to ensure software meets established quality standards. This role is pivotal in driving our efforts in one or more phases of software systems development, systems integration, or network engineering critical to the USPS mission.
Work Location: 100% Remote
Day to Day Work Responsibilities:
- Develops and writes testing scripts and plans to ensure that software functions as expected.
- Involved with a variety of user testing.
- Prepares complex data sets to test logic, error handling and system workflows.
- Conducts testing of more complex features.
- Verifies fixes.
- Monitors and documents testing results according to required procedures.
- Develop software requirement specification (SRS) documents to support functional requirements affecting the technical file specifications (Mail.dat and Mail.XML).
- Manage, update, and maintain all currently supported technical specifications and guides and develop new ones as necessary in support of new or revised functionality across systems.
- Customer Acceptance Testing (CAT) to provide support to review Technical Requirement Documents (TRD), develop and update test scripts, perform customer acceptance testing, perform production validation through smoke testing and functional testing, document testing outcome and provide artifacts, provide TLSC documentation and Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM).
- Provide expert personnel to meet with and participate in mail industry meetings/forums and Mailer Technical Advisory Committee (MTAC) workgroups, task groups and user groups.
- Development of performance metrics to track and report status of Customer Acceptance Testing.
- Automated test script development
- Develop training materials, Standard operating procedures (SOP) and guides as it relates to impacted CPPP applications.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ experience or HS diploma/equivalent and 9+ years experience.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
- U.S Citizenship or Green Card holder.
- Residing in the U.S for the past five years with no more than 6 months travel outside the U.S. during this time frame.
- Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members)
- Experience creating test scripts, user acceptance testing; document test results, and test artifacts.
- Experience performing smoke testing, regression testing, and functional testing.
- Experience working with data files and formats such as CSV, XML, JSON; and relational databases.
- Knowledge of software development cycle.
- Experience testing software applications.
- Experience with tracking tools (e.g. Rational, Mercury).
- Experience with test plans, test cases, test scripts and test reports.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Mail.DAT, and Mail.XML specification.
- Software Testing certification.
Peraton Overview
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 do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.