Test Automation Engineer

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Working closely with software developers, engineers, business analysts, and requirements personnel to plan, coordinate, and execute static analysis and dynamic testing of systems/software code to verify and validate acceptance and technical specifications
• Evaluating the test basis and supporting the refinement of requirements to ensure testability, clarity, and correctness
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks for web and cloud-based applications
• Create test scripts for functional, integration, and regression testing using tools such as Selenium, JUnit/NUnit, or Cypress
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines)
• Ensure every code commit triggers tests and results are visible to the team
• Develop and maintain test cases for API Testing and load/performance testing
• Validate system reliability and performance under expected production workloads
• Work in secure Azure Gov environments to set up test data and test environments that mirror production configurations
• Adhere to data handling policies by scrubbing sensitive information as needed for compliance
• Collaborate with developers and business analysts to understand acceptance criteria for user stories
• Translate user stories and acceptance criteria into automated test scenarios to ensure comprehensive coverage of requirements
• Track and report defects using Azure DevOps boards or similar tools
• Provide clear documentation of issues and work with development teams to resolve and re-test fixes
• Continuously refine the test suite by adding new test cases for discovered issues and new features
• Optimize test execution time to ensure the suite remains efficient and effective as the system evolves

Requirements

• Ability to assess software products for readiness and determine pass/fail criteria
• Ability to capture test data, analyze test results and clearly communicate (orally and written) findings and/or deficiencies
• Skilled at mapping test cases to requirements and providing input to generate a requirements traceability matrix
• Skilled in creating software test cases, procedures, test scripts, and test data conditions
• Knowledge of testing business applications and enterprise information systems
• Knowledge of static and dynamic software test activities
• Knowledge of agile or incremental software development lifecycle models
• Secret Clearance to start
• Windows, Linux, SQL and Oracle
• Hands on SQL Skills using SSMS with proficiency in reading and understanding the flow of a large/complicated stored procedure
• Experience using Selenium, JUnit, NUnit, and Cypress
• Experience using Postman, REST-assured, JMeter, or Locust
• Experience working in Azure DevOps pipelines and other Azure cloud environments
• 10 years of relevant experience
• 4+ years in testing the infrastructure as code (IAC) or other similar technologies to deploy the microservice application infrastructure
• 4+ years conducting manual testing
• 5+ years of testing front-end applications using automation
• 5+ years of testing back-end applications using automation
• 5+ years End-to-End DevOps hands-on knowledge, test automation with tools like GitHub, ADOPS, or similar CI/CD tools
• 3+ years of application development and/or testing in Agile methodology
• 5+ years software QA and testing experience
• Experience implementing automated testing processes with tools such as Junit, Selenium/Cypress, 508 testing, and performance testing
• Experience using MS Visio for updating diagrams
• Experience working in Federal or State government environments
• Ability to work independently and remotely

Nice to Have

• Experience in testing business applications and enterprise information systems
• Experience working in Federal or State government environments

Qualifications

• Security+ certification
• U.S. Citizenship

Benefits & Perks

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Paid Family Leave providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
• Paid education and certifications
• Opportunities for professional growth and internal mobility