QA Automation Engineer

• Develop and maintain EAG/API-gateway automation components that integrate with Government-approved CI/CD pipelines.
• Create and validate configuration-as-code, pipeline-compatible deployment artifacts, gateway promotion workflows, API validation gates, and migration automation components.
• Support automated checks for API specification quality, governance compliance, Zero Trust controls, telemetry, configuration drift, and production-readiness evidence.
• Build automation and validation evidence that supports PWS automation outcomes, including 75 percent manual onboarding reduction, 90 percent automated onboarding success rate, and 100 percent Zero Trust/governance compliance prior to production deployment.
• Troubleshoot gateway-side CI/CD integration issues, including deployment failures, configuration errors, credential/certificate dependencies, environment promotion issues, and validation gate failures.
• Support Git-based version control, branching, pull/merge request workflows, artifact repositories, and release evidence.
• Coordinate with Government CI/CD, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, identity, network, and release teams for platform-owned dependencies.
• Produce pipeline documentation, automation runbooks, validation logs, deployment evidence, rollback steps, and knowledge-transfer materials.

Gateway Automation Engineer

• Administer, support, troubleshoot, and maintain enterprise scheduling and orchestration platforms, including technologies such as Autosys, Airflow, and similar enterprise automation solutions
• Manage Linux-based production infrastructure, including system configuration, patching, performance tuning, vulnerability remediation, and operational support activities
• Develop and maintain automation using Python, Go, Shell, or similar scripting and programming languages to improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Design, implement, and support workflow orchestration solutions, including job dependencies, scheduling logic, error handling, and integrations across distributed systems
• Participate in platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives while ensuring stability and availability of production services
• Diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure, application, and workflow-related issues through effective troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Collaborate with application, infrastructure, security, and engineering teams to deliver reliable scheduling and automation services
• Support certificate management, security remediation activities, compliance requirements, and infrastructure maintenance efforts
• Contribute to monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and resiliency improvements across scheduling and orchestration platforms
• Participate in production support processes, including incident response, problem management, and continuous improvement activities
• Support the adoption of modern infrastructure and automation practices, including Infrastructure-as-Code, cloud technologies, container platforms, and CI/CD capabilities where appropriate
• Document operational procedures, platform standards, architecture decisions, and automation solutions

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Orchestration and Automation

• Lead validation and verification activities for SmartSense IoT sensors, gateways, and connected monitoring devices across EVT, DVT, and PVT development phases
• Execute smoke testing, regression testing, and system-level validation covering hardware platforms, firmware functionality, and system software behavior
• Validate wireless connectivity technologies including BLE, Zigbee, LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, and other IoT communication protocols
• Perform device validation under real-world operating conditions: stress testing, soak testing, field testing, environmental testing, and long-term reliability testing
• Investigate failures using hardware debugging tools, device logs, telemetry data, and data analysis; drive root cause analysis across hardware, firmware, and system layers
• Review hardware designs and schematics produced by contract manufacturers, identifying potential validation risks and testability concerns early in the design cycle
• Collaborate with contract manufacturers to support hardware validation, manufacturing test readiness, and system-level troubleshooting
• Design, build, and maintain automated test frameworks and validation pipelines that test device behavior, connectivity, telemetry workflows, and system integrations
• Develop hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) test systems and automated device test rigs that enable scalable, repeatable validation
• Build and maintain automated environments using Python (pytest), Docker, and CI/CD pipelines to integrate validation into engineering workflows
• Own the automation strategy and roadmap, driving continuous improvement in test coverage, execution speed, and infrastructure reliability
• Apply BDD testing approaches and structured validation methodologies to ensure comprehensive and traceable test coverage
• Provide technical direction and structured guidance to the extended test engineering team, enabling more independent and effective execution
• Work closely with hardware, firmware, software, and product teams to reproduce issues, verify fixes, and continuously improve system reliability
• Ensure validation processes meet regulated and compliance-driven environment requirements, including traceability, documentation, and audit readiness
• Document validation strategies, test results, hardware architecture insights, and design decisions to support scalable development practices

Senior Hardware Validation, Automation Engineer

• Leverage AI (Playwright MCP) to accelerate test automation, refactoring, debugging, and defect triage
• Build scalable, reusable automation frameworks for API (REST/GraphQL) and UI testing
• Develop and execute automated suites for functional, regression, and integration coverage
• Improve test stability by identifying and resolving flaky tests through root cause analysis
• Integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), enabling quality gates and continuous testing
• Partner with engineering teams to enhance product testability and streamline quality practices
• Track and report quality metrics (coverage, stability, defect leakage) using Practitest
• Manage and scale test execution via Selenium Grid and distributed environments

Automation Engineer 5 – AI Accelerated API, UI Automation

• Tests, creates, implements and supports robotics process and desktop automations
• Performs design, scripting, testing, implementing, maintaining and modifying automations of moderate complexity, significance, and risk
• Creates comprehensive test plans and test cases; defines automation data needs across systems and creates a plan to coordinate this test data
• Creates and executes performance tests to ensure the expected automation performance levels are achieved
• Performs, and at times, leads clients and technical staff to investigate, analyze, and resolve technical problems
• Writes documentation that describes automation capabilities and operating procedures
• Estimates and defines time tables and project tasks; analyzes and estimates cost and time
• Conducts analysis of organizational needs for the creation and implementation of automation solutions; participates in feasibility assessments of new automation opportunities

Automation Engineer

• Execute automation opportunities from concept to production deployment.
• Support equipment mechanization and automation from business case to implementation.
• Improve equipment uptime through troubleshooting, design changes, vendor partnerships, and hypercare.
• Work with sites and maintain an automation roadmap for value streams.
• Develop processes to transition from manual to automated operations.
• Collaborate with Advanced Manufacturing Engineering and sustaining engineering teams to integrate process changes.
• Document equipment requirements and review vendor designs for compliance.
• Support the full equipment life cycle, from development to sunsetting.
• Drive standard work for equipment health assessment and reliability.
• Oversee installation and hypercare of electromechanical systems.

Senior Design Automation Engineer

• Tests, creates, implements and supports robotics process and desktop automations
• Performs design, scripting, testing, implementing, maintaining and modifying automations of moderate complexity, significance, and risk
• Creates comprehensive test plans and test cases; defines automation data needs across systems and creates a plan to coordinate this test data
• Creates and executes performance tests to ensure the expected automation performance levels are achieved
• Performs, and at times, leads clients and technical staff to investigate, analyze, and resolve technical problems
• Writes documentation that describes automation capabilities and operating procedures
• Estimates and defines time tables and project tasks; analyzes and estimates cost and time
• Conducts analysis of organizational needs for the creation and implementation of automation solutions; participates in feasibility assessments of new automation opportunities and helps determine best approach for automation

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