Senior Software Test Engineer at Peraton
Lanham, MD
$80,000–$128,000from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Lanham, MD
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level testing role supporting a quality assurance program for mission-critical IRS applications. Day-to-day work involves designing and executing functional, integration, and automated tests across mainframe, client/server, and cloud environments, coordinating with project stakeholders, and mentoring other test engineers. The role suits an experienced testing professional comfortable leading across Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery models and working with tools such as Selenium, UiPath, Jira, and Xray.
Senior level · 8+ years · Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $129,128 (middle half $101,596–$152,655). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
Clearance: The JD requires candidates to be able to obtain and maintain an MBI (Moderate Background Investigation) clearance — mapped to Secret. An active IRS MBI clearance is listed as strongly preferred, not a hard gate.
Degree: The JD accepts multiple education/experience combinations (Bachelor's + 8 yrs, Master's + 6 yrs, Associate's + 10 yrs, or HS diploma + 12 yrs), so no single degree level is a hard gate; the degree requirement is set to None accordingly. Total years minimum is set to 8 (the lowest stated experience floor, paired with a Bachelor's).
Selenium is listed as the first named automation tool in a required-section list that also includes UiPath, QTP, HP-UFT, and Rational Functional Tester; these are treated as interchangeable alternatives satisfying the same automation-tool requirement.
IBM Mainframe / Unisys Mainframe experience appears under Preferred Qualifications and is marked accordingly.
Java, SQL, XML, JMeter, JUnit, Parasoft, SoapUI, UiPath (second mention), Databricks, PySpark, and accessibility tools (JAWS, ZoomText, Dragon NaturallySpeaking) all appear under the 'significant plus' / Preferred Qualifications section.
The alternative occupation code (15-1252 Software Developers) is noted because the role includes test automation framework design and implementation, which overlaps with software development work, though the primary focus is clearly QA/testing.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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