Entry-Level Java Developer/Automation Tester

Job ID: 2613924

Location: Ashburn, VA, US

Date Posted: 2026-07-30

Category: Software

Subcategory: SW Engineer

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes - 10% of the time

Minimum Clearance Required: None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work: ORA_ON_SITE

Description

We are currently seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Java/JEE Developer (Entry Level) to join our team to begin an exciting and challenging career in Ashburn, VA. Please note that candidates will be required to be in an automation tester role for the first 12-18 months of their employment. This is so that the candidate will get up to speed with the team structure, applications, technology stack, work requirements, etc. The candidate will then graduate to a developer role on the team.

Job Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and unit test REST web services with Java, Spring, and JUnit.
• Develop web applications with Angular that communicate with backend services.
• Generating test data and performing Data Validation by writing SQL queries.
• Write automation test scripts using Java.
• Work collaboratively within a large, Agile development team.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related engineering field
• Experience with Java/JEE design and software development experience including designing, developing, and documenting large-scale enterprise software systems
• Spring Boot
• REST web services
• RxJS
• Typescript
• XML/JSON
• RDBMS (e.g. Oracle or PostgreSQL)
• SQL
• JPA/Hibernate
• Angular
• HTML/Javascript/CSS
• Knowledge of web application development required

Desired Skills and Experience

• Master's degree in computer science or related field is a plus
• Recent and relevant course projects, internships, co-ops, or personal work showcasing full stack development skills would be a plus
• Experience with microservices architecture
• Experience writing their own automation scripts
• Experience with Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright
• Experience with NoSQL databases
• Familiar with AWS
• Comfortable with Eclipse and Visual Studio Code
• Agile development approach
• Good communication skills (writing and presenting)
• Strong initiative: must be able to take a high-level requirement, ask questions/seek clarifications, and get the job done
• Ability to work in a high-pressured, tight-deadline environment
• Superior written and oral communication skills are essential
• Must be able to multitask efficiently and progressively and work comfortably in an ever-changing data environment
• Must work well in a team environment as well as independently
• Excellent verbal/written communication and problem solving skills; ability to communicate information to a variety of groups at different technical skill levels

Customer Requirements

• Clearance - Ability to obtain and hold a public trust position and favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Location - Required to be on-site in Ashburn, VA 5 days per week for the first year of employment. After their first year, they will have the option to work a hybrid schedule (2-3 days on-site) depending on the needs of the team.

Target salary range: $80,001 - $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.


SAIC is a premier technology integrator providing full life cycle services and solutions in the technical, engineering, intelligence, and enterprise information technology markets. SAIC is Redefining Ingenuity through its deep customer and domain knowledge to enable the delivery of systems engineering and integration offerings for large, complex projects. SAIC's approximately 15,000 employees are driven by integrity and mission focus to serve customers in the U.S. federal government. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $4.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see .