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Are you interested in using your skills to help shape the Cyber, Security, & Intel space? If so, look no further. We are seeking a Software Engineer to join our team of passionate individuals. In this role you will support challenging, mission-critical projects that make a direct impact on the nation’s security and intelligence mission.

Member of a cross-functional team responsible for the development and maintenance of test cases; creation and execution and documentation of manual and automated tests; and working with software engineers, system engineers, platform engineers, system administrators, and other test engineers to validate development and maintenance activities.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with software engineers to develop effective strategies and test cases.

• Creating automated testing frameworks and test harnesses.

• Discovering, reporting, and tracking testing defects.

• Analyzing test results and reporting performance, load, and other issues using issues management tool.

• Developing, executing, and maintaining acceptance, integration, and system tests.

• Conduct post-release/post-implementation testing.

• Work with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the software development life cycle.

• Perform continuous functional and regression testing.

• Must be able to work in a collaborative environment.

• Must be able to work with minimal supervision.

Desired Skills:

• Experience designing, creating, and executing manual and automated testing solutions including analysis of results to determine adequacy of testing.

• Experience testing in Windows and Linux/CentOS environments.

• Working knowledge of test management software (e.g. behave!, SoapUI, Selenium, Junit, JRunner, etc.)

• Experience with:

• Web communication protocols, i.e. JSON, REST, SOAP.

• Scripting language such as Groovy, Perl, Python, or Ruby.

• Creating and managing cronjobs

• Working knowledge of:

• Java

• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

• Public Key Infrastructures (PKI)

• Version repositories (such as Git, SVN, CVS, etc.)

• SQL

• Ability to work independently and as part of an Agile development team using superior time management to tirage issues and prioritize tasks.

• Able to clearly communicate technical issues and ideas orally and written to superiors and subordinates across all engineering disciplines.

• The Software Engineer develops, maintains, and enhances complex and diverse software systems (e.g., processing-intensive analytics, novel algorithm development, manipulation of extremely large data sets, real time systems, and business management information systems) based upon documented requirements.

• Works individually or as part of a team.

• Reviews and tests software components for adherence to the design requirements and documents test results.

• Resolves software problem reports.

• Utilizes software development and software design methodologies appropriate to the development environment.

• Provides specific input to the software components of system design to include hardware/software trade-offs, software reuse, use of Commercial Off-the shelf (COTS)/Government Off-the-shelf (GOTS) in place of new development, and requirements analysis and synthesis from system level to individual software components.

Clearance Required:

• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Minimum Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Engineering or in a field related to Computer Engineering or Computer Science disciplines from an accredited college or university is required.

Minimum Years of Experience:

• Three plus (3+) years of experience as a Software Engineering experience. An additional four (4) years of Software Engineering experience may be substituted for the degree for a total of seven (7) years.

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Pay Transparency Verbiage

Amentum’s health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Eligible employees and their dependents may elect medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan, and, if eligible, a deferred compensation plan and Executive Deferral Plan. Employees will also receive 17 days of vacation per year, seven paid holidays, plus floating holidays and caregiver leave. Hired applicants will be able to purchase company stock and have the opportunity to receive a performance discretionary bonus.

The base salary range for this position is $115K to $130K. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.