Senior Software Test Engineer

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Senior Software Test Engineer

Omaha, NE

No clearance required to start - Must be clearable to Secret

Ready for your next career step? Leidos has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Software Test Engineer to help with automated testing of our state-of-the-art software solutions delivered to our government customers. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with an outstanding software engineering team and will support the team's software deployed into our customers' classified networks. Our engineers are at the forefront of defining and building solutions to address the challenges faced by our end users, applying a go-fast, agile approach driven by small teams that rely on and value each team member's contributions.

As a Senior Software Test Engineer, you'll participate in planning, designing and executing end-to-end automated testing in support of the Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Deployment (CD) of our products to customers worldwide. You'll identify opportunities to increase the level of automated testing of our customer products and solutions, plan and execute strategies to achieve test automation objectives, continuously measure and improve the effectiveness of that testing based on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and evaluate and integrate new testing tools, technologies, and procedures to achieve the organization's technical objectives.

In this capacity, you'll collaborate with engineering and product team members, architects, and other IT resources to create and execute test strategies, detailed test plans, and scenarios. You'll always respect others' opinions, accept constructive criticism, share your views with a passion for improving the team's performance, and collaborate openly and positively with your teammates.

Most of the work will be on site in Leidos' facility in Omaha, Nebraska. Some level of remote/work from home is possible.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Create and maintain test methodology documentation for traceability and repeatability.
• Identify regression test candidates for automation, plan automation activities across the team and automate test cases.
• Execute test cases/scripts including functional, regression, exploratory, performance, load and smoke tests for both web applications and database.
• Report issues in work management tool (e.g., Jira) along with steps required to re-create the issue.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including daily standups, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• Participate in all phases of risk management assessments and software development with emphasis on analysis of user requirements, test design and test tools selection.
• Support metrics program by creating, collecting and tracking test related metrics.
• Inform innovative solutions for more efficient testing strategy.

• US Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with 6+ years of experience. Additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Experience with software development (Java, NodeJS/JS, C++, Rust).
• Experience with writing and/or developing test procedures and automated test scripts (e.g., Test Complete, Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Cucumber, QFTest or Cypress).

• US Citizen with an active Secret security clearance or higher.
• Experience with Agile development principles and methodologies.
• Experience with automating unit, functional, integration and performance testing of web applications using industry-standard tools such as Playwright, JUnit, SoapUI, Cucumber, Selenium, and JMeter.
• Working knowledge of continuous integration and delivery methodologies and tools.
• Familiarity with software design patterns.
• Solid understanding of software development process fundamentals.
• Experience managing projects within the Atlassian suite of tools (Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket).
• Familiarity with component-based web frameworks & libraries (React, Vue, Angular).
• Knowledge of a version control system (e.g., Git).
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools (Gitlab).
• Familiarity with SQL and NoSQL databases.
• Experience with USSTRATCOM Nuclear Planning process.

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The city

The job is in Omaha, NE. Below is what the official statistics say about living and working there.

How Omaha compares. Among the 40 largest places in Nebraska, Omaha is #1 by population, #3 for remote work (#1 = most), #6 for college degrees (#1 = most), #34 for homeownership (#1 = highest). Its county, Douglas County, is #2 of 93 counties for average pay ($67,868).

The place in numbers

Omaha has 488,837 residents (ACS 2020–2024), about 24.7% of the population of Nebraska. It covers 143 square miles of land, which works out to roughly 3,420 people per square mile. The median age is 35.3, 5% younger than the state median (35.3 against 37.2).

Housing

The median gross rent is $1,187 a month (rent plus utilities), 11% above the state median ($1,187 against $1,072). Over a year that is 19.5% of the median household income. US housing guidance treats housing as affordable when it takes 30% of income or less, so the typical household is under that line. The median home value is $245,500, which is 3.4 times the median household income ($73,201); a ratio under 4 usually means ownership is within reach for many households. 57.4% of households own their home, 14% below the state average (57.4% against 66.5%).

Work and pay

The Omaha, NE-IA metropolitan area has 498,100 jobs in the BLS wage survey, and the median pay across all occupations is $49,660 a year, about the same as the national median ($49,660 against $50,980). The biggest occupation groups are office and administrative support (55,630 jobs, median $47,100); food preparation and serving related (48,260 jobs, median $34,270); sales and related (43,380 jobs, median $37,540). The area is most specialised in personal care and service (1.4 times) and construction and extraction (1.2 times), where the share of workers is above the national share. The best-paying groups with at least 5,000 jobs are management ($108,120) and computer and mathematical ($96,400). In 2026M09 the unemployment rate of Douglas County was 2.6%. 69.0% of residents aged 16 and over are in the labour force. The city lies in Douglas County; its jobs, pay by industry and GDP are on the county page.

Getting around

Among workers, 71.8% drive alone, 1.0% use public transit, 1.7% walk, 15.1% work from home. 5.2% of workers commute 45 minutes or more, 26% below the state average (5.2% against 7.0%). Remote work is more common than in the state as a whole, which widens the set of employers a resident can work for without moving.

People and education

40.1% of adults aged 25 and over hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 16% above the state share (40.1% against 34.6%). 11.3% of residents were born outside the United States, 41% above the state share (11.3% against 8.0%). The poverty rate is 13.5%, 27% above the state rate (13.5% against 10.6%).

Climate

The warmest month is Jul, averaging 78°F (25.5°C), and the coolest is Jan at 23°F (-5.1°C). About 786 mm (31 inches) of precipitation falls in a year; May is the wettest month (121 mm) and Jan the driest (19 mm). These values come from NASA satellite-based climatology on a grid of about 50 km, so they describe the wider area, not a weather station in the city.

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Company description (from The Muse): Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health.

size: Large Size; industries: Information Technology; locations on The Muse: Reston, VA.

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Median rent in Omaha is $1,187 a month and median household income $73,201 (ACS 2020–2024).

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• Wages and projections: BLS OEWS (May 2025) and Employment Projections 2025–35.
• City and county figures: Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024, BEA, BLS QCEW and LAUS, NASA POWER climatology; distances from Census Gazetteer coordinates.

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