Common Criteria Product Tester, Entry Level
Jobright.ai
Columbia,
Maryland,
United States
Information Technology
H-1B
Job posted on August 9, 2025
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Job Description:
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Job Summary: Leidos is searching for a highly motivated product tester to support Common Criteria evaluation efforts with their Accredited Testing & Evaluation Laboratory. The role involves performing security tests on commercial IT products, interacting with developers, and ensuring compliance with security standards.
Responsibilities: • Work with IT product vendors to determine applicability of IT product security standards to products • Interpret IT product security standards to determine the compliance or noncompliance of product design based on research of product documentation and interviews with technical personnel • Devise, execute, and document security functional testing to justify how tested products are compliant with IT security standards • Conduct product troubleshooting and provide recommendations when noncompliant findings are made • Conduct vulnerability research to determine if documented security vulnerabilities are adequately mitigated by product configuration and patch level • Produce documentation that describes how IT products conform to security requirements • Develop user guidance for instructions on placing products into secure configurations • Justify completeness, consistency, accuracy, and sufficiency of product test result to third-party quality reviewers
Qualifications:
Required: • A minimum of two years of professional experience • A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline related to computer science, mathematics, or information technology • Familiarity with general IT security products and their operation (e.g., routers/switches, firewalls, IDS, operating systems, software applications, mobile devices) • General knowledge of the role that various IT products and concepts serve in information security (e.g., full disk encryption, mobile device management, remote access/VPN, etc.) • Experience with software development lifecycle methods (e.g., agile) and tools (e.g., Subversion, GitLab, Confluence, JIRA) • Strong applied knowledge of network, transport, and application layer communications and security (e.g., TCP/IP, TLS, IPsec, SSH, LDAP) • Working knowledge of applied cryptography (e.g. X.509, Diffie-Hellman, PKI) • Strong customer-facing oral and written communication skills
Preferred: • Previous experience with Common Criteria or other IT product security evaluation standards (e.g., FIPS 140, FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53) • One or more technical professional certifications related to information technology communications or security (e.g., CEH, CCNA, CISSP) • Knowledge of scripting/programming (e.g., Python) and familiarity with machine-readable data exchange methods (e.g., JSON, REST)
Company: Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. Founded in 1969, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, team size 10001+ employees, currently Public Company. Leidos has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
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Job Summary: Leidos is searching for a highly motivated product tester to support Common Criteria evaluation efforts with their Accredited Testing & Evaluation Laboratory. The role involves performing security tests on commercial IT products, interacting with developers, and ensuring compliance with security standards.
Responsibilities: • Work with IT product vendors to determine applicability of IT product security standards to products • Interpret IT product security standards to determine the compliance or noncompliance of product design based on research of product documentation and interviews with technical personnel • Devise, execute, and document security functional testing to justify how tested products are compliant with IT security standards • Conduct product troubleshooting and provide recommendations when noncompliant findings are made • Conduct vulnerability research to determine if documented security vulnerabilities are adequately mitigated by product configuration and patch level • Produce documentation that describes how IT products conform to security requirements • Develop user guidance for instructions on placing products into secure configurations • Justify completeness, consistency, accuracy, and sufficiency of product test result to third-party quality reviewers
Qualifications:
Required: • A minimum of two years of professional experience • A bachelor's degree in a technical discipline related to computer science, mathematics, or information technology • Familiarity with general IT security products and their operation (e.g., routers/switches, firewalls, IDS, operating systems, software applications, mobile devices) • General knowledge of the role that various IT products and concepts serve in information security (e.g., full disk encryption, mobile device management, remote access/VPN, etc.) • Experience with software development lifecycle methods (e.g., agile) and tools (e.g., Subversion, GitLab, Confluence, JIRA) • Strong applied knowledge of network, transport, and application layer communications and security (e.g., TCP/IP, TLS, IPsec, SSH, LDAP) • Working knowledge of applied cryptography (e.g. X.509, Diffie-Hellman, PKI) • Strong customer-facing oral and written communication skills
Preferred: • Previous experience with Common Criteria or other IT product security evaluation standards (e.g., FIPS 140, FedRAMP, NIST SP 800-53) • One or more technical professional certifications related to information technology communications or security (e.g., CEH, CCNA, CISSP) • Knowledge of scripting/programming (e.g., Python) and familiarity with machine-readable data exchange methods (e.g., JSON, REST)
Company: Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. Founded in 1969, headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA, team size 10001+ employees, currently Public Company. Leidos has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.