Sr. Test Automation Engineer

About the role

The role supports AWS-hosted applications built with Ruby and TypeScript and focuses on automated functional, API, performance, and regression testing using Java, Selenium, JMeter, POSTMAN, and Cucumber.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain test plans, strategies, suites, artifacts, and cases for manual and automated testing.
• Define testing scope, objectives, entry/exit criteria, and risk-based approaches for each release and sprint.
• Estimate testing effort to support sprint planning, release scheduling, and resource forecasting.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, test cases, and defects using JIRA and Confluence.
• Improve test documentation, templates, and standards as application architecture and mission needs evolve.
• Execute manual and automated tests across functional, regression, integration, system, and user acceptance scenarios.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks for web and mobile applications.
• Perform API, performance, and load testing to validate secure data exchange, scalability, and stability under operational demand.
• Conduct security-focused testing aligned with DISA STIGs, RMF requirements, and DoD application security standards.
• Use AWS cloud knowledge to shape cloud-native test strategies and validate AWS-hosted application behavior.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies as a senior contributor, including planning, refinement, standups, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and rapid feedback.
• Collaborate with developers, business analysts, and product owners to clarify acceptance criteria, identify testable requirements, and shift quality left.
• Provide testing input during requirements analysis and design reviews to identify gaps, ambiguities, and testability concerns.
• Communicate quality risks, testing status, technical findings, and release readiness clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify, document, track, and verify defects through closure across release cycles.
• Use JIRA to prioritize, assign, and monitor defects with development and operations teams.
• Produce actionable reports, summaries, and metrics dashboards for program leadership and Government stakeholders.
• Analyze defect trends and test metrics to identify quality risks and recommend process or tool improvements.
• Support release readiness decisions by clearly communicating defect severity, impact, mitigation status, and residual risk.

Qualifications

• US Citizenship required, with ability to pass an IT-II background investigation; active Secret clearance preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent education, certifications, and directly relevant experience may be substituted.
• 8+ years of professional software testing experience.
• 5+ years of automated scripting experience using Java and Selenium.
• Familiarity with automation frameworks such as BDD or TestNG and reporting tools such as Cucumber.
• Working knowledge of Jenkins and AWS environments.
• 2+ years of experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter.
• 2+ years of REST API testing experience using tools such as POSTMAN.
• Knowledge of SQL for validating database objects.
• Minimum of 2+ years on an Agile software development team.

Benefits

This is a hybrid role requiring at least 1 day per week onsite in North Chicago/Great Lakes, IL.

Local candidates with higher availability preferred.

Occasional travel to Great Lakes, IL, as needed.

Ability to sit or stand for extended periods and perform computer-based work using standard office equipment.

Requires frequent verbal communication, active listening, and visual acuity to perform job responsibilities effectively.

Must follow site-specific safety, security, and dress standards.

Pay

$120,000 - $150,000.00 annually

Schedule

Hybrid role requiring at least 1 day per week onsite in North Chicago/Great Lakes, IL.