Responsibilities
Peraton Labs is seeking a QA Team Member to work as part of a team developing a state-of-the-art network monitoring tool. In keeping with Peraton Labs’ role as a research organization, the QA Team needs to deal with changing requirements and priorities. Working closely with other team members, in a fast-paced environment, you will be challenged to utilize and grow your skills. To be considered, candidates must be creative, passionate about process improvement, be self-sufficient, passionate for learning new things and have a strong technical ability in the following areas:
- Interacting with product owners and stakeholders to understand product requirements
- Preparing test scenarios
- Conducting tests, analyzing results, and preparing reports on all testing aspects
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills
- Ability to work within a team effectively
Why choose us?
- Variety: You will work on multiple programs. You and your manager will have discussions to ensure your assignments are on track with your growth goals and interest areas.
- Flexibility: You will have the opportunity for a flexible work schedule. Subject to program requirements, you can set your hours while fulfilling 80 hours every two weeks. Additionally, while classified work requires onsite work, most staff can schedule about 20% of their time as work from home.
- Value: You will support interesting and challenging projects that are not repetitive or monotonous, but rather have novelty and innovation; and great people to learn from and work with – collegial, smart, inspiring.
Qualifications
Education/Experience Required:
- A four-year degree in computer science, IT, systems engineering or related fields
- Requires 4 years with BS/BA or 2 years with MS/MA or 1 year with PhD
- Minimum of 2 years of hands-on software testing experience
- Knowledge of modern software testing methodologies and software test design
- Knowledge of modern test frameworks and techniques for full-stack applications
- Excellent communication and critical thinking
- Ability to work under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Strong attention to detail and adept to problem-solving
- Ability to obtain Top Secret Clearance
- U.S. Citizenship
Additional Desired Skills:
- Programming experience in Python, C/C++, Python, and/or Power Shell
- DevOps frameworks and Agile methodologies
- Active/Current Top Secret Clearance
Our work:
We span several areas of interest, including (but not limited to):
- Full-spectrum cyber operations, including CND, CNE, CNA, and CNO.
- Program analysis, including program understanding, vulnerability identification, and remediation
- Malware analysis and reverse engineering
- Resilient networking in support of cyber mission goals
- Autonomous agent development
- Software-defined networking for cyber defense and deception
- Cryptographic techniques for assured computation
- Symbolic logic and theorem proving for automating network configuration
- Application of formal methods for secure and resilient systems
- Application of mathematic, statistics, and linguistics to large data sets to uncover patterns, extract information and gain understanding
- Artificial intelligence (reasoning, probabilistic inference, machine learning)
Peraton Overview
Peraton 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 and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.
Target Salary Range
$112,000 – $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
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An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.