Senior QA/Test Automation Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Analyze requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, workflows, interface requirements, and technical designs to assess testing needs.

• Create and uphold risk-based test plans, scenarios, cases, scripts, test data, and expected outcomes.

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

• Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, results, defects, corrections, and release decisions.

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

• Develop, execute, maintain, and enhance automated regression tests.

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

• Facilitate the integration of automated tests into build, continuous-integration, and delivery pipelines.

• Prepare and manage representative test data while safeguarding sensitive information.

• Verify data processing, calculations, field validation, role-based behavior, interfaces, and error handling.

• Execute tests in Government-approved environments.

• Document test results and maintain complete, repeatable, auditable evidence, including screenshots, logs, data comparisons, and system responses.

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

• Collaborate with technical teams to reproduce issues, analyze root causes, and clarify expected behavior.

• Verify corrected defects and conduct targeted regression testing.

• Assist in defect triage and communicate quality risks, unresolved defects, and release impacts.

• Prepare test status, defect metrics, coverage information, evidence summaries, and recommendations for release readiness.

• Support Government user acceptance testing by preparing cases and data, coordinating execution, documenting results, and tracking findings.

• Assist Government users during acceptance testing and differentiate defects from training, configuration, data, or requirements issues.

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

• Work with cybersecurity personnel to verify security corrections and regression impacts.

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

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

• Mentor testers and share knowledge of complex workflows, business rules, test techniques, and automation practices.

• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, mission liaisons, analysts, developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, DevSecOps engineers, and other testers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or higher.

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

• A minimum of eight years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in performing functional software testing.

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

• Proficiency in developing and maintaining test cases, test data, expected results, and traceability.

• Ability to document test execution results and retain objective test evidence.

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

• Familiarity with conducting exploratory and regression testing.

• Capability to support development, execution, or maintenance of automated regression tests.

• Skill in analyzing requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to determine test coverage.

• Ability to assist with Government or customer user acceptance testing.

• Proficient in clearly communicating test results, quality risks, unresolved defects, and release impacts.

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

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

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

• Preferred: experience in federal or Department of Defense software development or modernization.

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

• Preferred: hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Cucumber, Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, or similar technologies.

• Preferred: experience in automated test development using Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another supported programming language.

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

• Preferred: familiarity with requirements traceability matrices and test management platforms.

• Preferred: proficiency with tools like Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail, Zephyr, Xray, Confluence, or comparable software.

• Preferred: experience in integrating automated tests with continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines.

• Preferred: experience in performance, security, accessibility, compatibility, or resilience testing.

• Preferred: knowledge of Section 508 accessibility testing and assistive technology validation.

• Preferred: experience with Agile, DevSecOps, configuration management, and secure software development practices.

• Preferred: experience in mentoring testers or providing technical testing leadership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Regular full-time employment.

• Active competitive government contract opportunity.

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.