QA / Test Automation Engineer

About the role

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a QA / Test Automation Engineer based in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, acceptance criteria, application designs, API specifications, data mappings, and AWS documentation to identify test conditions, expected results, and potential quality risks.
• Create, execute, and maintain manual testing across functional, system, regression, smoke, integration, API, database, data validation, and user acceptance scenarios.
• Develop and maintain reusable automated test scripts, components, test data, locators, validations, and regression suites using appropriate automation tools and frameworks.
• Test web interfaces, REST and SOAP APIs, databases, integrations, authentication services, data exchanges, legacy interfaces, workflows, reports, and downstream systems.
• Execute automated tests across AWS-hosted environments, analyze logs and execution evidence, troubleshoot failures, and maintain test suites as applications evolve.
• Prepare test data, capture supporting evidence, maintain requirements traceability, and document testing results and release outcomes.
• Identify, document, and track defects with clear reproduction steps, severity, expected versus actual results, environment details, and supporting evidence; participate in defect triage and verify fixes.
• Use application, cloud, and pipeline logs to support defect isolation and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with Java developers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, AWS and DevSecOps engineers, integration and data teams, security specialists, vendors, and business stakeholders throughout sprint and release cycles.
• Support automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines, scheduled regression testing, and release validation, improving test reliability in partnership with senior QA and DevSecOps team members.
• Contribute to test estimates, sprint planning, coverage assessments, release-readiness reviews, quality metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help strengthen testing practices related to cloud reliability, security, accessibility, data consistency, and operational readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least four years of experience in software quality assurance, application testing, system testing, or a related technical field.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Federal Public Trust, with approved adjudication required before onboarding; candidates with an existing Public Trust or suitability determination are preferred.
• Hands-on experience testing Java-based web applications, services, APIs, integrations, databases, and data flows.
• Practical experience developing, maintaining, executing, and troubleshooting automated tests using one or more automation tools or frameworks.
• Experience building reusable automated test components, managing test data and locators, applying validations, and interpreting automated test results.
• Experience testing applications deployed in AWS environments and working with cloud-hosted components, APIs, databases, logs, and multiple test environments.
• Strong understanding of functional, system, regression, integration, API, smoke, database, data validation, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience with defect tracking, test management, requirements traceability, test evidence, test data preparation, and defect retesting.
• Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Agile methodologies, DevSecOps concepts, version control, AWS-based CI/CD pipelines, and release management.
• Ability to interpret user stories, acceptance criteria, business rules, API contracts, data mappings, technical documentation, and Java application behavior.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical abilities, including the capacity to investigate automated test failures, interpret application and AWS logs, isolate defects, and communicate quality risks clearly.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, collaboration, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities with moderate supervision.

Preferred Experience

• Enterprise or government Java modernization programs.
• Subject7, AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudWatch.
• Tools such as Jira, Confluence, Git, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with Java, SQL, JSON, XML, application logs, Section 508 accessibility requirements, containerized applications, security or performance testing, and AWS observability.
• Relevant certifications such as ISTQB, AWS, Subject7, Agile, testing, automation, cloud, or security certifications.