Software Engineer - Software Test

Standard Job Description

At Lockheed Martin we keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work. With our employees as our priority, we provide career opportunities designed to propel development and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. This is a place for engineers, scientists, and problem-solvers who are ready to engage deeply, think critically, and build with purpose. You will not just launch a career. You will be part of something bigger. This is where the best are built.

Help ensure mission-critical software performs when it matters most.

As a Senior Software Test Engineer supporting the Sensor Fusion team, you'll help validate the software that enables advanced aerospace systems to process, fuse, and deliver critical mission data. Your work will play a key role in ensuring high-quality software is delivered with accuracy, reliability, and confidence.
Working alongside software, systems, and integration engineers, you'll analyze requirements, develop comprehensive test strategies, execute software validation activities, and identify opportunities to improve product quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy problem solving, collaborating across disciplines, and ensuring complex software performs as designed.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Analyze software and system requirements to develop comprehensive test strategies, test cases, and validation plans for Sensor Fusion software.
• Execute software verification and validation activities to ensure mission-critical capabilities meet quality and performance requirements.
• Develop and maintain automated and manual test cases using C++ while supporting continuous software integration and delivery.Collaborate with Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Integration & Test teams to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve software defects.
• Support Agile software development by participating in test planning, defect tracking, and continuous process improvement activities.
• Utilize engineering tools including Linux, GitLab, Jira, and automated testing frameworks to improve software quality and testing efficiency.
• Contribute throughout the software development lifecycle by ensuring robust testing, documentation, and delivery of reliable Sensor Fusion capabilities.

Plans, conducts, and coordinates software development activities. Designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs software that contains logical and mathematical solutions to business/mission problems or questions in computer language for solutions by means of data processing equipment. Applies the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the development life cycle. Applies knowledge of computer hardware and software, subject matter to be programmed in business/mission applications, information processing techniques used, and information gathered from system users to develop software. Corrects program errors, prepares operating instructions, compiles documentation of program development, and analyzes system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls. Ensures software standards are met.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering
• Minimum of 2 years of testing experience
• Experience coding in C++
• Experience analyzing requirements

Desired Skills

• Experience coding in C# or Python
• Experience working in Agile teams
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Experience with Jira and GitLab
• F-35 Program access