Northrop Grumman is looking for innovators to help them keep building on their wide portfolio of secure, affordable, integrated, and multi-domain systems and technologies that fuel their missions in rapidly changing global security environments. They need test engineers to test mission-critical software for the Intelligence Community, focusing on quality and delivering defect-free applications.
Requirements
- Experience with various aspects of software and/or hardware testing
- Proficiency with computer hardware and software systems, and the ability to validate proper implementation and functionality between various systems and interfaces
- Experience translating requirements and user stories into functional test plans
- Ability to use strong analytical skills to identify, characterize and isolate issues, and troubleshoot to present options for correcting those issues
- Proficiency with writing custom automation scripts using a programming language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, etc.)
- Experience with testing mobile applications on Android devices
- Experience with test automation to include design, development, and debugging of tests
Responsibilities
- Work as a member of an agile software development test team in a dynamic, fast-paced environment learning new tools and processes
- Test new software applications in various environments (e.g. Windows, Linux, Android) and verify software integration with wireless services and custom hardware technologies
- Validate software requirements through functional, usability, performance, security, compatibility, ad-hoc, internationalization, and regression tests
- Develop, maintain, and execute test plans and procedures for software systems
- Review user stories and backlog items, analyze testability of requirements, and provide feedback
- Apply analytical and problem-solving skills to clarify user stories and determine appropriate testing scenarios to validate the iterative development of products against functional and technical specifications
- Identify and track software defects during sprint cycles
Other
- Candidate must currently have an active Secret security clearance to be considered. Active Secret security clearance must be in place by the start date and must stay in place through employment.
- Demonstrated ability to organize, prioritize, and self-manage multiple project tasks
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in order to write well-articulated test plans and facilitate product demonstrations
- Ability to articulate and document defects in a timely manner, and collaborate with the development team and management to prioritize bugs until resolution
- Polygraph
