Description

Key Responsibilities:
Test Framework and Automation:
•    Establish and maintain a test framework and automated test suite using Cypress and/or Playwright
•    Develop, maintain, and execute automated functional and end-to-end (E2E) tests across microservices
•    Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous quality gates
•    Author maintainable, data-driven, and reusable test scripts aligned to program coding standards
Performance, Load, and Resilience Testing:
•    Execute load and performance testing across microservices and system interfaces
•    Conduct chaos testing to validate system resilience, failover, and recovery behaviors
•    Perform functional and end-to-end testing to validate user workflows and integrations
•    Identify, document, and triage defects; partner with developers on root-cause analysis and remediation
Microservices and Modernization Support:
•    Support modernization of a legacy operational system into a microservices-based architecture
•    Validate microservice contracts, APIs, and integrations across the distributed system
•    Test containerized workloads and deployments in Kubernetes/Docker environments
•    Verify CI/CD pipeline behavior, deployment health, and post-deployment validation
Agile Delivery and Collaboration:
•    Participate in all Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, refinement, reviews, retrospectives)
•    Deliver test artifacts and automation on the sprint cadence in coordination with development teams
•    Communicate and collaborate effectively with engineers, product owners, and program stakeholders
•    Contribute to continuous improvement of team test practices, tooling, and quality metrics
Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent combined education and experience.
Experience: 3+ years of professional software engineering or test automation experience; or 1+ year of professional experience with a related Master's degree.
Additional Required Qualifications:
•    Active TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph (lifetime) — must be active prior to start
•    Current CI Polygraph within the last 7 years — must be active prior to start
•    Hands-on experience establishing and maintaining test frameworks and automated test suites
•    Working knowledge of microservices design and architecture
•    Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into them
•    Experience with test frameworks and test automation tooling
•    Experience working in an Agile delivery environment
•    Strong communication and collaboration skills in a team-oriented software development environment
Desired Skills (one or more of the following):
•    Test automation tools: Playwright, Cypress
•    508/accessibility testing tools: JAWS or NVDA
•    Performance testing: JMeter
•    API testing/documentation: Swagger (or similar API tool)
•    Software languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Ansible
•    Container and orchestration platforms: Kubernetes, Docker
•    CI/CD tooling and pipeline development

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degrees