QA/Test Automation Engineer – Journeyman

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

📋 Description

• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, and technical documentation to determine testing needs

• Develop and maintain functional test scenarios, test cases, test scripts, test data, and expected results

• Validate accession-processing workflows, business rules, calculations, decision logic, integrations, data relationships, and exception paths

• Ensure traceability among requirements, test cases, test results, defects, corrections, and release outcomes

• Conduct functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing

• Develop, execute, maintain, or enhance automated regression tests

• Identify repeatable, stable, and high-value scenarios that are suitable for automation

• Support automated test execution through approved build, test, or continuous-integration pipelines

• Prepare representative test data while safeguarding sensitive information

• Execute tests in Government-approved environments

• Document test results and maintain complete, repeatable, and auditable test evidence

• Capture screenshots, logs, system responses, data comparisons, and other evidence that demonstrate test outcomes

• Identify, document, prioritize, and track software defects until resolution

• Prepare defect reports that include reproducible steps, expected results, actual results, severity, evidence, and affected requirements

• Collaborate with developers and senior testers to reproduce issues, clarify expected behavior, and assist in root-cause analysis

• Verify defect corrections and perform targeted regression testing

• Participate in defect-triage meetings and communicate testing progress, unresolved issues, and quality concerns

• Support Government user acceptance testing by preparing test cases and data, assisting users, documenting results, and tracking findings

• Differentiate defects from training, configuration, data, environment, or requirements issues

• Support sprint demonstrations, capability reviews, operational validation, and stakeholder-feedback activities

• Coordinate with cybersecurity personnel to verify approved security corrections and regression impacts

• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily coordination, reviews, demonstrations, and retrospectives

• Maintain test artifacts, defect records, evidence, status information, and quality metrics in approved tools and repositories

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of test coverage, automation, defect prevention, evidence management, and quality practices

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, software engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent permitted by the applicable labor category

• A minimum of six years of relevant professional experience

• Experience in performing functional software testing

• Experience in validating complex workflows, business rules, decision logic, integrations, or exception paths

• Experience in developing and executing functional test cases and test data

• Experience in conducting exploratory and regression testing

• Experience documenting test results and retaining objective test evidence

• Experience in identifying, documenting, tracking, and verifying software defects

• Ability to maintain traceability among requirements, test cases, test results, defects, and corrections

• Ability to develop, execute, maintain, or support automated regression tests

• Ability to analyze requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to determine test coverage

• Ability to support Government or customer user acceptance testing

• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, technical documentation, organizational, and communication skills

• Ability to collaborate effectively with analysts, developers, senior testers, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and Government stakeholders

• Preferred: recognized software-testing certification such as ISTQB, CSTE, CSQA, or equivalent

• Preferred: experience supporting federal or Department of Defense software-development or modernization programs

• Preferred: experience testing military accession processing, personnel processing, regulated workflows, or rules-intensive mission systems

• Preferred: experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, or comparable technologies

• Preferred: experience developing automated tests using Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another supported programming language

• Preferred: experience testing web applications, APIs, databases, interfaces, batch processes, or event-driven services

• Preferred: experience with requirements traceability matrices and test-management platforms

• Preferred: experience using Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Confluence, or comparable tools

• Preferred: experience integrating automated tests with CI/CD pipelines

• Preferred: familiarity with performance, security, accessibility, compatibility, or resilience testing

• Preferred: familiarity with Section 508 accessibility testing and assistive-technology validation

• Preferred: familiarity with Agile, DevSecOps, configuration-management, and secure software-development practices

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment

• Opportunity to work remotely

• Chicago-area candidates preferred

• Opportunity to support a USMEPCOM ENLIST government program

• Participation in sprint demonstrations, capability reviews, operational validation, and stakeholder-feedback activities

• Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action protections