Test Automation Engineer

eSimplicity

Test Automation Engineer for eSimplicity, developing test plans and cases for government clients. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality delivery of digital services.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeRemote • Maryland • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $97,200 - $104,200 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Maintain test environments and test data
Help identify, document, and track application defects
Leverage and maintain automated testing frameworks to analyze test results and debug failures
Create and execute automated and manual test cases to ensure the on-time, high-quality delivery of the product in accordance with the project schedule
Create and maintain Unit Tests and Regression Tests
Provide recommendations to improve automated testing frameworks and testing processes for the team
Conduct 508 testing to ensure compliance with accessibility requirements
Attend requirements gathering meetings to better understand business needs, functional and system requirements
Construct testing documents, including a testing plan, test cases, test data, and test scripts to ensure compliance with business requirements
Collaborate with the development team to ensure successful implementation of the needed business, functional and system requirements
Provide regular and open communication across the program and stakeholders for transparency and awareness of progress and impediments
Understand, visualize and manage upstream/downstream dependencies
Drive delivery and continuous improvement by utilizing feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity
Work across stakeholders and teams to continuously improve
Participated with management and cross-functional teams as subject matter experts to develop and improve operating policies and procedures related to user workflows and be an advocate for user community.
Work with stakeholders and development team to provide production support and on-call support as needed.

Requirements

What you’ll need

All candidates must pass public trust clearance through the U.S. Federal Government
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Combined 4+ years of automated and manual test experience on highly available, customer-facing web and mobile applications
Experienced testing responsively designed web experiences
Experienced testing APIs
Experienced conducting User Acceptance Testing with users, collecting inputs from users, and supporting users with potential workaround
Demonstrated experience working independently as the sole testing resource on a small development team
Experience with Playwright
Experience using Gitlab and CI/CD platforms
Experience in AWS cloud architecture
Experience conducting 508 testing
Ability to coordinate test execution with internal users and stakeholders who volunteer to supplement the team in order to complete testing
Experience validating internationalization requirements
Experience working across multiple mobile form factors
Strong analytical skills and innovative thinking
Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing and explaining technical and project related information to customer, vendors, senior management and staff.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Highly competitive salary
Full healthcare benefits

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Hard Skills & Tools

automated testingmanual testingUnit TestsRegression TestsUser Acceptance TestingAPI testinginternationalization validationtest case creationtest data managementdebugging

Soft Skills

analytical skillsinnovative thinkingeffective communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingstakeholder managementindependent worktransparencycontinuous improvementrequirements gathering

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Information SystemsBachelor’s degree in Engineeringpublic trust clearance