QA Automation Test Engineer

Aretum
Any Location, VA
Remote
Job Description
Role Overview

Serve as a QA Automation Test Engineer supporting an Agile team responsible for creating, maintaining, and enhancing applications for a federal government client. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, developing, executing, and maintaining manual and automated testing solutions that ensure application quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability.

What You Will Do

Design, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for web applications, APIs, and integrated systems. Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, end-to-end, and user story validation testing throughout the software development lifecycle.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, developing, executing, and maintaining manual and automated testing solutions that ensure application quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability. Experience with collaborating and working across functional teams is required.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree (BA or BS) or equivalent combination of education and 4 additional years of relevant experience.
  • 5+ years’ experience in using automation tools for testing systems and applications, writing and executing test scripts.
  • 3+ years’ experience with automation testing tools, Playwright preferred (e.g., GitHub Issues/GitLab Issues, Selenium, Cypress, SonarQube, NeoLoad, and/or Postman).
  • Experience developing automation and performance testing strategies and frameworks from the ground up.
  • Experience creating reusable test automation solutions and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience performing functional, regression, smoke, integration and end-to-end testing.
  • Experience performing manual accessibility testing with screen readers and other accessibility tools.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience with collaborating and working across functional teams.

Benefits

  • Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
  • Retirement Plan (401k)
  • Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
  • Paid Time Off
  • Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
  • Short Term & Long-Term Disability
  • Training & Development
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