Senior Functional & Automation Tester, Remote

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

📋 Description

• Plan, design, and implement both functional and automated testing for contemporary applications, with an emphasis on quality, security, performance, and operational readiness.

• Collaborate with Product, Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) teams.

• Lead sprint, release, and project planning by determining testing scope, risks, environments, test data, and tools.

• Convert business and technical requirements into test strategies, plans, and comprehensive functional, integration, regression, performance, and security test cases.

• Review requirements and create test cases, scripts, and data for workflows, edge cases, and error handling scenarios.

• Conduct functional, manual, and exploratory testing, documenting results with reproduction steps and supporting evidence.

• Develop and sustain automated unit, API, integration, and UI tests in alignment with team frameworks and coding standards.

• Validate event- and message-driven services and distributed workflows, including Apache Kafka message-queue systems.

• Test API-centric and cloud-ready architectures, encompassing microservices and serverless applications.

• Log, monitor, and retest defects; engage in defect triage and root-cause analysis.

• Adhere to secure testing and data-handling protocols and escalate any security or privacy issues.

• Contribute to CI/CD testing by executing automated suites, analyzing results, and sustaining test automation.

• Maintain test plans, evidence, dashboards, and runbooks to ensure auditable, operationally ready releases.

• Implement observability principles, including logs, metrics, and alerts, to facilitate troubleshooting and enhance coverage.

• Utilize AI-assisted development and testing tools to expedite test creation and analysis while adhering to quality and security standards.

• Perform additional assigned duties that support delivery, quality, and operational goals.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree from an accredited College/University in a relevant field is preferred.

• Over 8 years of experience in software quality assurance/control, software development, and/or a related field.

• Proven experience working within Agile delivery teams and applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.

• Familiarity with change/configuration management and lifecycle tooling (such as VersionOne, ServiceNow) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices.

• Practical experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (for instance: Docker, Kubernetes), including security and environmental considerations.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes security practices and testing within containerized production-like environments.

• Familiarity with AI-assisted development/testing tools like OpenCode, Claude Code, and Gemini Vertex AI to enhance efficiency in test creation and analysis (within established governance).

• Extensive experience in testing software applications, documenting defects, and collaborating with developers and end users to resolve issues.

• Significant experience with various defect tracking tools (e.g., Rational, Mercury).

• Experience in producing test evidence and documentation suitable for audit or compliance evaluations.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Must be a US Citizen or possess permanent residency status (Green Card).

• Must be eligible to obtain Public Trust Clearance.

• Must have resided in the United States for the last 5 years.

• Cannot have spent more than 6 months outside the United States in the last 5 years, excluding Military Service.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote position