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The Homeland Sector within Leidos is seeking a Mobile Automation Tester with strong systems, software, cloud, and Agile experience to support a complex program to provide Agile development and operations and maintenance for critical systems on a mission-critical program supporting the Passenger Systems Program Directorate (PSPD) within Customs and Border Protection (CBP). PSPD supports the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and CBP critical missions, specifically screening and processing travelers at the ports of entry (POEs) into the United States.

In this hands-on position, you will exercise your judgment in determining and recommending the best designs based on customer business objectives, timelines and other resource constraints. You will participate in and/or direct major deliverables of projects through all aspects of the software development lifecycle. From requirement through final testing, you will be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining a mobile testing framework.

• Self-starer comfortable designing, developing, and maintaining mobile test automation framework for iOS and Android using mobile test automation tools
• Design, develop, and maintain automated scripts using Selenium, Appium, Java, Python, and Behave
• Develop and test using Android emulator and iOS simulator
• Able to report mobile automation test results in a readable and consumer level format
• Able to configure and generate test result reports using Allure
• Develop and execute comprehensive behavior-driven test suites using Cucumber, converting user stories into robust automated acceptance tests that provide immediate feedback on feature health
• Actively participate in requirement grooming to refine Gherkin scenarios, ensuring they accurately capture edge cases and business logic before development begins.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to identify, log, and track defects.
• Able to perform functional, regression, and integration testing
• Continuously improve the automation process and test coverage.
• Able to lead the development of test plans and test cases.

• BS/BA degree with a minimum of 10+ years of relevant experience or 9+ years of relevant experience with Masters Degree; OR 4 years of directly related experience in lieu of degree
• Must be a US Citizen
• Must be able to maintain and obtain a CBP Background Investigation prior to start
• Self-starter with proven experience in mobile application testing using iOS and Android
• Strong proficiency in Java programming language.
• Experience with BDD and ATDD frameworks
• Hands on experience using tools such as Cucumber and Behave
• Hands‑on testing with Selenium, Appium, Android Emulator and iOS Simulator
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills.
• Good communication and teamwork skills.
• Experience using at least 5 of the technologies listed below:
• • Selenium
  • BDD
  • ATDD
  • Appium
  • Flutter
  • Behave
  • Java
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • TestNG
  • GIT
  • Jira
  • Rest API testing
  • iOS and/or Android application development
  • iOS and/or Android mobile test automation

• Advanced degree
• Active Full CBP BI
• Experience with CBP
• Knowledge of JUnit
• Experience on AWS, CI/CD, SecDevOps
• Splunk, Splunk Processing Language (SPL), setting up Splunk dashboard

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting: March 17, 2026

Pay Range: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.leidos.com.

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