Automated Test Engineer, Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Oversee and guide the Automated Test Team while providing strategic leadership.

• Enhance and sustain the Playwright/Cucumber framework utilizing the Page Object Model.

• Design, create, and uphold reusable automated functional, integration, and regression tests.

• Formulate strategies for role transitions in automated test jobs within pipelines.

• Integrate automated testing suites into CI/CD pipelines and deliver actionable insights.

• Resolve issues with unreliable tests and assist in maintaining release quality standards.

• Plan and collaborate on testing initiatives aided by AI and conduct code reviews.

• Convert user stories and acceptance criteria into traceable test scenarios.

• Automate the validation process for data ingestion, transformations, and migration outcomes.

• Implement performance testing and incorporate automated security assessments.

• Manage controlled test data and establish repeatable test configurations.

• Diagnose failures, document reproducible defects, and verify corrections.

• Assist with user acceptance testing and verify accessibility standards.

• Report on test coverage, execution outcomes, defects, and risks associated with releases.

• Monitor defect rates and trends.

• Conduct testing across development, testing, staging, and production-like settings.

• Advise on fixture data and resource strategies in lower environments.

• Collaborate in functional testing alongside business analysts, product owners, and users.

• Engage in Agile planning sessions, reviews, and retrospectives.

• Maintain version-controlled test documentation and enhance the automation strategies.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in developing and managing automated test suites, particularly with Playwright and TypeScript.

• At least 5 years of experience in writing, debugging, and reviewing test automation code in TypeScript or JavaScript.

• Familiarity with Gherkin feature files and reusable step definitions through Cucumber or similar BDD frameworks.

• Experience in integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.

• Proven experience managing test code using version control and conducting peer reviews.

• Competence in deriving functional, integration, and regression tests from requirements and acceptance criteria.

• Experience in documenting defects and verifying resolutions within an Agile delivery team.

• Proven ability to validate data-driven application behavior and use test evidence to evaluate release readiness.

• U.S. Citizenship is mandatory.

• Must be capable of obtaining and maintaining a federal public trust or a similar background investigation.

• Must reside and be authorized to work in the U.S.; all work must be conducted in the U.S.

• Must have lived in the U.S. for at least three years out of the last five years.

• Preferred 2+ years of experience serving as a Test Team Lead.

• Experience in establishing test architecture for new or modernized applications.

• Familiarity with testing Azure applications or data workflows involving Databricks.

• Knowledge of Python or SQL for data validation purposes.

• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Scaled Agile Framework.

• Understanding of Section 508 and WCAG accessibility testing.

• Experience validating AI-enabled search, document processing, or natural language workflows.

• Experience supporting federal modernization initiatives and providing test evidence for governance, acceptance, or compliance reviews.

• Must be available to work during EST hours.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer.

• Reasonable accommodations provided throughout the application and employment process.

• Benefits information is available under the Transparency in Coverage Act.