People join Leidos Australia for many different reasons. The interesting projects. Supportive and open-minded colleagues. The opportunities to develop. What unites us is the fact that everything we do benefits and safeguards Australia in some way. We’re proud of our Mission to make the world safer, healthier and more efficient, and every Leidos team member has a valued role to play – to be the difference. With over 20 years’ local experience and the backing of a 40,000+ global presence, we are currently 1400+ strong in Australia, the largest commercial supplier of intelligence services to the Australian Government and provide a number of critical systems integration projects to the Department of Defence. We also deliver service management, including service desk, for the Australian Tax Office, supporting 25,000 ATO end users.

We have an opportunity for an experienced Automation Test Engineer to join our high performing team supporting the software development of key legislation drafting programs of work.  Working with our leading software development teams, your role will design, develop and execute automated tests for the software, ensuring project schedules and milestones are adhered to. You will also be involved in manual validation and verification testing from time to time to ensure a co-ordinated approach between manual and automated testing.

Key aspects of the role include:

• Development of software automated test plans and strategies
• Design, maintain and enhance a variety of specialised automated test procedures
• Analysis and presentation of automated test results and coverage
• Co-ordinating contributions to automated tests from the wider development team
• Provide traceability between development requirements and test cases
• Executing test procedures
• Creating and managing test defects with development teams
• Development of test reports.

• Software Engineering Degree or similar

About You and What You'll Bring

• Knowledge of the full lifecycle of automating manual test cases.
• Programming skills in a test automation framework (e.g. Cypress, Selenium).
• Experience testing large, distributed software systems.
• Good knowledge of JIRA, BitBucket, Confluence, Jenkins etc.
• Good communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure of tight deadlines and evolving requirements.
• Previous Automated Software testing experience is essential.
• Previous experience working in an Agile SCRUM environment.
• Ability to work closely within a team and independently when required.
• K6 load testing experience highly preferable but not essential.
• Most of our projects use a combination of Java and React. Experience in both is preferable.

What you’ll love

Leidos is growing rapidly so you’ll enjoy having the support of sponsored training and development and the offer of a varied career path. We regularly promote from within across a range of Federal Government and Defence projects so opportunities abound.

At Leidos you’ll enjoy 12 weeks’ paid parental leave as a primary carer, flexible work practices, discounted health insurance, novated leasing and more. Foster your career through complete access to learning and development and mentoring opportunities, we have a strong track record of internal promotion and career transitions. Join a company who acknowledges “People First”. 

At Leidos we look after our staff. Flexible working practices, great team building initiatives, consistent learning and development opportunities, employee discounts and excellent exposure to a variety of technologies and projects are just some of the perks. We are growing and evolving, so it’s an exciting place to be. 

Our diverse employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Qualified women, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. Leidos is an Equal Opportunity Employer.