Test Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain enterprise test automation frameworks for PeopleSoft HCM applications, integrations, interfaces, batch processes, and end-to-end business workflows.
• Create automated test suites using PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF), Tricentis, or comparable enterprise automation platforms, selecting the appropriate approach based on application architecture and testing needs.
• Automate validation of PeopleSoft pages and components, Fluid user experiences, Process Scheduler activities, reports, integrations, security-related functions, and critical business processes.
• Develop robust automation logic for synchronization, exception handling, recovery, parameterization, data-driven execution, reusable test data, and result validation to minimize false failures and improve suite reliability.
• Integrate automated tests with Azure DevOps (ADO), CI/CD pipelines, source control, release processes, and scheduled execution where appropriate to support continuous quality validation.
• Analyze automation execution results, application logs, interface outputs, and database data to distinguish framework or script issues from application defects and support efficient root-cause analysis.
• Establish and maintain automation engineering standards including framework architecture, coding conventions, naming standards, reusable asset management, version control, documentation, and peer review practices.
• Partner with developers, functional analysts, QA staff, Product Owners, and release teams to identify high-value automation candidates and maintain risk-based regression coverage aligned with release priorities.
• Improve automation coverage, execution speed, stability, maintainability, and reporting through continuous framework refinement and reduction of brittle or duplicative test assets.
• Maintain technical documentation, execution evidence, automation metrics, and traceability to support release readiness, auditability, and continuous improvement of the automated testing capability.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen and possess an active Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• 3+ years of software test automation or quality engineering experience, including hands-on responsibility for designing or maintaining automation frameworks for enterprise applications.
• Hands-on experience with PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF), Tricentis Tosca, UFT, Selenium, or a comparable enterprise test automation technology; strong PTF or Tricentis experience is preferred.
• Experience automating PeopleSoft HCM or similar ERP applications, including online transactions, integrations, batch jobs, reports, security scenarios, and end-to-end business processes.
• Strong scripting or programming skills used to extend test automation frameworks, build reusable utilities, manipulate test data, validate results, and troubleshoot automated execution.
• Experience with automation architecture concepts including modular design, reusable components, parameterization, data-driven testing, synchronization, exception handling, recovery, logging, and maintainable test design.

Desired Skills

• Experience establishing or modernizing an enterprise automation framework rather than only creating individual automated test scripts.
• Strong knowledge of PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF), including reusable tests and test cases, variables, reserved words, runtime options, logs, migration of test assets, and automation of PeopleSoft business processes.
• Experience with Tricentis Tosca and/or qTest for enterprise test automation, model-based automation, execution management, or broader regression orchestration is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with PeopleTools components such as Application Engine, Process Scheduler, Integration Broker, Component Interfaces, queries, reports, Fluid pages, and PeopleSoft security.
• Experience integrating automated testing with Azure DevOps (ADO), CI/CD pipelines, source control, scheduled execution, or DevSecOps quality gates.
• Working knowledge of SQL and database validation for automated verification of transactions, interfaces, batch results, and downstream data changes.
• Experience supporting automation across PeopleSoft releases, patches, PUM changes, upgrades, tax updates, interfaces, and regression impacts.
• Experience working in Agile/SAFe delivery environments and secured federal or DoD systems is preferred.
• Tricentis, ISTQB Test Automation Engineer, PeopleSoft, SAFe, or other relevant automation/quality engineering certification is a plus.