Senior Automation Test Engineer

Description

Senior Automation Test Engineer focused on building and maintaining automated test coverage for web and mobile applications. The role involves creating and implementing test strategies, developing test cases and automated test scripts, and validating functionality across complex scenarios including authorization, data integrity, and responsive/offline/network conditions.

Job Responsibilities

• Create and maintain test cases covering: positive/negative scenarios; boundary-value and equivalence-partitioning; error handling and validation rules; role-based access/authorization; data integrity, reconciliation, and auditability; cross-browser, device, and responsive-design scenarios; and web/mobile offline, interrupted-network, and device-permission scenarios where applicable.
• Develop automation test scripts using Appium and Selenium (Cypress experience is a plus; Playwright is a plus).
• Generate test data and perform data validation.
• Test data interfaces using JSON and XML message sets.
• Develop SQL or Unix scripts for test data generation or test harness automation.
• Execute regression, functional, and system testing; verify results; produce test summaries and defect reports.
• Identify defects and requirement discrepancies; generate defect change requests and report discrepancies.
• Use modern IDEs (e.g., Eclipse, IntelliJ) for design, development, and testing; collaborate in an Agile process and document requirements in JIRA.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or related field
• 9+ years of relevant technical experience
• Must-have: Mobile automation testing experience, Selenium, and Appium
• Experience with at least 5 programming languages (e.g., Java, Python, JavaScript)
• Basic SQL query skills and understanding of relational databases
• Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining comprehensive test cases across the scenario categories listed above
• Ability to understand data models and write test scripts based on the data model
• Ability to evaluate test results, report, and manage defects
• Good understanding of object-oriented programming and data structures
• Ability to work in a high-pressure, tight-deadline environment
• Strong written and oral communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong initiative to drive work from high-level requirements

Customer Requirements

• Clearance: ability to obtain and hold Public Trust with favorable suitability based on a CBP Background Investigation
• Location/on-site: Ashburn, VA, 4 days per week for the first year; after the first year, optional hybrid schedule (2 days on-site) depending on team needs