
Test Automation Engineer
Ignite IT - Innovation & Technology
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Maryland • United States
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About the role
- Support a large-scale government agency initiative to modernize complex data systems.
- Ensure functional equivalence, data integrity, and automated regression validation during migration.
- Work as part of an Agile Scrum Team; collaborate across workstreams to validate end-to-end.
- Design and execute parallel validation frameworks comparing legacy to AWS outputs.
- Develop automated regression test suites using Python, Selenium, and additional automation frameworks.
- Validate business logic, data transformation, and end-to-end workflow outputs.
- Participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
- Partner closely with developers for test-driven development and continuous validation.
- Design and implement automated testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Validate AWS Cloud Native workloads and enable push-button regression validation.
- Maintain requirements-to-test-case traceability and produce automated test artifacts.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in automated testing and quality engineering.
- Expert-level proficiency in Python.
- Expert-level proficiency in Selenium and UI automation frameworks.
- Strong expertise in automation scripting languages (e.g., Bash, PowerShell, PyTest, Robot Framework, Behave, or similar).
- Experience testing AWS Cloud Native applications.
- Experience building automated testing frameworks for a legacy on-prem to cloud migration project.
- Experience validating data-intensive applications and distributed systems.
- Experience building CI/CD-integrated automated test frameworks.
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres preferred).
- U.S. Citizenship required.
Benefits
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
automated testingquality engineeringPythonSeleniumautomation scripting languagesBashPowerShellPyTestRobot FrameworkBehave
Soft Skills
collaborationtest-driven developmentcontinuous validationrequirements traceability