Quality Assurance Engineer – Automation

ICF

Quality Assurance Engineer managing test automation frameworks at ICF. Collaborating with teams to design and execute automated testing strategies in a remote role.

Posted 7/28/2026full-timeReston • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $81,499 - $138,549 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in test automation development, including the design and execution of automated scripts for UI and API testing. Proficient in collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure comprehensive testing and validation of applications in Agile environments.

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Test Automation DevelopmentAutomated Testing FrameworksCI/CD Pipeline IntegrationAgile MethodologiesPublic Trust Clearance

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Hard Skills

Test StrategyTest Case DesignAutomated ScriptingManual TestingPerformance TestingRegression TestingData AnalysisMicroservices ValidationContainerized EnvironmentsLarge-Scale Data Processing

Soft Skills

Effective CommunicationCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

CypressPlaywrightSeleniumPyTestPostmanGitHub ActionsJenkins

Industry Keywords

Agile CeremoniesData WarehouseBusiness IntelligenceDevOpsInfrastructure

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCypressJavaScriptJenkinsMicroservicesPythonRubySelenium

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
5+ years of experience with test automation development (eg: Cypress, 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.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible working hours
Paid time off