API Test Automation Engineer

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as a Senior Test Engineer supporting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Federally Facilitated Exchange (FFE). GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. At GDIT, people are our differentiator. GDIT supports CMS's FFE program with new functionality development for Plan Management, Eligibility & Enrollment (E&E), Financial Management, Marketplace Consumer Record, and other Marketplace Health Exchange functional areas.

About the role

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter by performing continuous testing for security, API, and regression suites. You will participate in Scrum meetings, run test case execution, create reports, and document defects to support continuous improvement activities for the end-to-end testing process.

Responsibilities

• Perform continuous testing across security, API, and UI layers, including manual regression execution as needed.
• Conduct functional test execution for RESTful services and APIs.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies and collaborate with developers, SMEs, and testers to resolve issues.
• Document test cases, test results, and validation data in JIRA.
• Validate test environments across multiple environments and report findings.
• Support test scenario planning, test data preparation, and database query activities.
• Provide estimates for new functionality or enhancements.
• Maintain and enhance regression test cases to ensure data integrity.
• Expand and update regression test suites across releases.
• Track and report test case additions for each sprint and release cycle.
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities and perform effectively under strict deadlines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 8+ years of experience designing and developing tests and test requirements for products, systems, software, and/or related components.
• Experience developing, maintaining, and enhancing automated test frameworks using Java or Scala for REST APIs.
• Hands-on experience validating RESTful APIs and working with NoSQL databases.
• Experience with Gatling, including creating/updating simulations, adding test scripts to automated regression suites, and enhancing Gatling frameworks to support functional design changes.
• Experience building, updating, and maintaining Scala/Selenium frameworks for UI and API integration.
• Experience with end-to-end Agile automated software testing, including technical test execution, test management, participating in code reviews, and monitoring, reporting, and documenting defects to support continuous improvement.
• Experience maintaining regression test cases to ensure data integrity and expanding regression test beds across releases.
• Ability to document and report new test cases across sprints and release cycles.
• Must consistently deliver work that meets or exceeds established standards, demonstrating accuracy, attention to detail, thoroughness, and adherence to specifications.
• Established residency in the U.S. for at least 3 out of the last 5 years.
• Ability to obtain a Federal Public Trust.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting data and test suite configuration with tools such as Jenkins/GitHub.
• Experience with AI test case creation.
• Agile certification in SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Agilist, CSM or other agile certifications.
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member.
• Strong organizational, attention-to-detail, multi-tasking, and time-management skills.
• Ability to perform in high-pressure environments and under strict deadlines.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $97,750 - $132,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages including medical, dental, and vision plans
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Paid leave including vacation (15 days per calendar year), sick and personal time, and holidays (10 days per year), prorated based on date of hire
• GDIT Paid Family Leave program providing up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12-month period for eligible employees
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance