Quality Assurance Engineer – Automation
ICF
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $98,124 - $166,810 per year
Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
AWSCloudCypressJavaScriptJenkinsMicroservicesPythonRubySeleniumSplunkSQL
About the role
- Review and analyze business requirements to produce comprehensive, and well-structured test strategy and test cases
- Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases
- Design, Develop and Execute automated scripts using our test automation framework
- Support the automated functional testing by our testing team, focusing on application flow and validation of test results
- Perform manual and automated testing, which may include exploratory, system, regression, compatibility, system, and integration testing
- Work directly with the Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Data Engineering teams to ensure all work is thoroughly tested
- Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.)
- Participate in relevant Agile Ceremonies: Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives
- Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance automation task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.)
- Ensure the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives
- Interface directly with the DevOps and Infrastructure teams regarding Functional test environments
- Timely and accurate communication of testing events, daily status, and test execution results, etc.
- Develop and maintain automation for both UI and API testing, leveraging tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, and Postman
- Implement automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar)
- Collaborate with developers to validate microservices, containerized environments, and AWS-hosted applications
- Design performance, load, and reliability test scenarios to validate large-scale data processing and reporting systems
- Contribute to code reviews for automated test scripts to ensure maintainability and reusability across teams
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree OR completion of 6+ weeks of a programming boot camp plus 1+ year of IT-related experience; OR 4 years of relevant industry experience without a formal degree
- 3+ years of experience with test automation development (eg: Ruby, Playwright, JS, Python, Selenium)
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
- Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years
- Must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US; work must be performed in the US.
- Ability to design/architect, build, program, test and deploy solutions using an Agile methodology
- Ability to optimize code/script using industry best practices and standards
- Strong hands-on skills in SQL development; ability to create ad-hoc queries to meet business needs
- Experience working with cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), microservices, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and integration of automated tests into build pipelines.
- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, CloudWatch, New Relic) to validate releases and production health
- Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow-through
- Demonstrated functional test experience, including test analysis.
Benefits
- Reasonable Accommodations
- Health insurance and wellness programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
test automation developmentRubyPlaywrightJavaScriptPythonSeleniumSQL developmentAgile methodologyCI/CD practicesperformance testing
Soft skills
communicationself-organizationself-managementcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitytime managementcritical thinkinginitiative
Certifications
Public Trust clearance