JR Software Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineer

Peraton is delivering advanced mission planning, digital engineering, and commandandcontrol capabilities supporting the U.S. Government's space communications enterprise. Our team uses modern MBSE practices to translate mission needs into precise, traceable, and verifiable technical requirements across a complex, multisystem environment.

Required Qualifications:

• Associates degree and 4+ years of experience; OR bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience. Additional four (4) years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Approximately 2 years of handson experience in software testing or automation within Agile or iterative development environments.
• This position requires the candidate possess a minimum of Secret clearance with ability to upgrade to TS/SCI. The candidate must maintain the clearance
• Foundational experience creating or maintaining automated tests using Cypress and JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Basic understanding of REST API testing.
• Experience working in Linux environments (commandline navigation, reading logs, running scripts).
• Familiarity with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI), version control (Git), and issuetracking systems like Jira.
• Some handson experience with automation or test frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, PyTest, or JUnit.
• Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary engineering teams and follow established testing processes.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Experience testing microservices architectures or containerized applications (Docker).
• Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS (e.g., S3, Amazon RDS).
• Exposure to scripting languages such as Python or Bash.
• Experience supporting integration, interface, or systemlevel testing events.
• CompTIA Security+ or another DoD 8570/IAT certification.
• Interest in growing toward advanced automation, test leadership, or SAFe/Agile certification.

Benefits:

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligible to participate in an attractive bonus plan

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that 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, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.