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# Test Automation Engineer - TS/SCI with Polygraph required

- **Company:** Parsons Corporation
- **Location:** Annapolis Junction, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $125,100.0 - $225,200.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Automation of Tests, Cloud Computing, Custom Software, Python (Programming Language), Regression Testing, Subversion, Systems Integration, Scripting, Git, Software Version Control
- **Published:** August 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9101095/test-automation-engineer-tssci-with-polygraph-required

## About the Role

* Bachelor degree, with additional years of experience able to count in lieu of a degree
 * 10+ years of experience, with additional education able to count towards total years of experience.
 * Experience creating and executing automated test plans, scripts, and integrating them into development.
 * Experience applying techniques to create automated solutions in support of dynamic, evolving mission requirements.
 * Experience designing, developing, and maintaining scalable automated test scripts to validate new features, custom applications, configuration changes, and system upgrades.
 * Experience managing regression testing including comprehensive coverage of all software/system patches, upgrades, releases.
 * Experience writing/maintaining high-quality documentation for test plans, automation standards, and execution procedures.

What Desired Skills You Might Bring :

 * Experience working within cloud infrastructure in classified AWS environment.
 * Scripting experience/Python is desired
 * Ability to work version control systems (e.g. SVN, GIT), and experience with JIRA ticketing tool, and understanding of basic CM principles.
 * Strong written and verbal communications with experience working as part of an Agile Development Team

## Description

Parsons is looking for a talented Automated Test Engineer to join our growing team!

In this role you will support testing activities as a member of the test, development and deployment team. You will be supporting key activities in defense of emerging threats in the cybersecurity domain and work as part of a team that develops and tailors capabilities with the common goal to prevent and eradicate threats to critical U.S. systems.

What You'll Be Doing :

 * Work to develop and execute automated test and evaluation plans for custom software as a part of a multidisciplinary engineering team.
 * Coordinate and integrate Evaluation and Testing tasks and products
 * Drive innovation and responsiveness to program changes and evolving test and evaluation (T&E) status to help manage program risk: develop alternative courses of action, work arounds, and fallback positions with a recommended course of action for each risk, and monitor and re-evaluate risks at appropriate milestones


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