Test Engineer, Automation/508/Performance

Duties And Responsibilities

• Design and maintain automated unit, API, workflow, regression, smoke, and end-to-end test suites integrated with the delivery pipeline.
• Automate validation of Pega rules, calculations, routing, case flows, services, integrations, reports, and critical production functions.
• Plan and execute accessibility testing using automated scans, keyboard-only testing, screen readers, manual review, and assistive-technology techniques.
• Document Section 508/WCAG findings, evidence, severity, remediation verification, regression results, and inputs to ACR/VPAT or audit materials.
• Develop workload models and scripts for baseline, load, stress, endurance, scalability, failover, and recovery testing using realistic business scenarios.
• Measure and analyze response time, throughput, concurrency, resource use, integration latency, queue depth, report execution, and batch-processing behavior.
• Identify automation gaps, accessibility barriers, performance bottlenecks, degradation points, and root causes; recommend and verify remediation.
• Maintain traceability from requirements and user stories through automated scripts, test results, defects, retesting, and release-quality gates.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, administrators, data engineers, security personnel, functional testers, and VA accessibility or performance stakeholders.
• Produce clear test plans, execution evidence, performance results, remediation inputs, quality metrics, and reusable regression assets.

Knowledge And Skills Required

• 5+ years of software quality engineering or test automation experience, with practical experience in accessibility testing, performance testing, or both.
• Experience building automated tests for web applications, APIs, workflows, business rules, or enterprise applications using one or more modern frameworks.
• Working knowledge of CI/CD-based continuous testing, source control, test data, traceability, defect management, and release-quality gates.
• Practical experience with either Section 508/WCAG testing techniques or load/performance testing methods; willingness and ability to support both areas is required.
• Ability to script or code automated checks using languages or frameworks appropriate to the toolset.
• Experience analyzing logs, metrics, test evidence, failures, bottlenecks, accessibility defects, and root causes.
• Strong analytical, documentation, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Ability to work across automation, accessibility, performance, functional, development, and operations teams.
• Knowledge and experience with PegaUnit, Pega Scenario Testing, Pega Deployment Manager, Pega Diagnostic Center, or comparable workflow-platform test tools.
• Experience with tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, Postman, JMeter, LoadRunner, k6, axe, WAVE, JAWS, or NVDA; no single toolset is mandatory.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Clearance

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.