IT - Test Engineer IV

About the role

We are seeking a Lead Test Automation Engineer to join a team of qualified, diverse professionals supporting mission-critical modernization efforts. The ideal candidate will lead the design and implementation of advanced automated testing frameworks to validate Medicare claims processing during a large-scale dual run modernization initiative. This role is pivotal in ensuring accuracy, reliability, and seamless integration between legacy systems and modern platforms, contributing to the overall success of system transformation efforts at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).

Responsibilities

• Leading the design, development, and implementation of automated test frameworks supporting dual-run validation of Medicare claims processing.
• Creating automated test suites that compare Facets claims outputs to legacy system results to support a 95% claim match rate target.
• Designing and maintaining continuous testing pipelines integrated into CI/CD environments to support scalable and repeatable validation activities.
• Establishing automated test coverage across functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Developing strategies and tooling for automated test data creation using empirical and production-representative datasets.
• Authoring, maintaining, and governing the project’s Quality Management Plan (QMP), ensuring alignment with program-level quality standards.
• Providing technical leadership, mentorship, and oversight to test automation engineers and manual testers.
• Collaborating closely with development, architecture, DevOps, and business teams to ensure automated testing is embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
• Troubleshooting automation issues, optimizing stability and performance of test suites, and ensuring traceability across requirements, tests, and defects.
• Participating in Agile ceremonies and contributing to continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, and best practices.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience with a BS/BA degree, 6 years with an MS/MA degree, or 3 years with a PhD.
• Hands-on experience building automated test frameworks and large-scale automated test suites.
• Demonstrated experience using automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, Postman, JUnit, Jira, TestRail, or similar.
• Proven experience validating complex transactional or rules-based systems, ideally involving dual-run or parallel production testing.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools and processes (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Experience designing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end automated testing strategies.
• Ability to develop and maintain empirical data-driven test data strategies.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate testing approaches, results, and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Facets or other healthcare claims processing platforms.
• Background supporting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs or other federal healthcare environments.
• Experience testing or modernizing legacy-to-modern system migrations.
• Familiarity with Quality Management Plans, QA governance, and traceability practices in federal programs.
• Experience working in scaled Agile environments (SAFe or similar).
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB, Certified Agile Tester, AWS/Azure cloud certifications).

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• MS/MA degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
• PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred.

Skills

• Hands-on experience building automated test frameworks and large-scale automated test suites.
• Demonstrated experience using automation tools such as Cucumber, Selenium, Postman, JUnit, Jira, TestRail, or similar.
• Proven experience validating complex transactional or rules-based systems, ideally involving dual-run or parallel production testing.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools and processes (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar).
• Experience designing functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end automated testing strategies.
• Ability to develop and maintain empirical data-driven test data strategies.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate testing approaches, results, and risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Facets or other healthcare claims processing platforms.
• Background supporting Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs or other federal healthcare environments.
• Experience testing or modernizing legacy-to-modern system migrations.
• Familiarity with Quality Management Plans, QA governance, and traceability practices in federal programs.
• Experience working in scaled Agile environments (SAFe or similar).
• Relevant certifications (e.g., ISTQB, Certified Agile Tester, AWS/Azure cloud certifications).

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Pay

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $120,000 annually, commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Schedule

This role is remote, based in Arkansas.

Contact

To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to [email protected] or call us at our Cork office +353 21 2330 150.