Automation Test Engineer

• Design, develop, and execute system level test procedures in an Agile. environment ensuring the system meets the complex functional, performance and latency requirements.
• Build, scale, and maintain a robust, maintainable test automation framework using Playwright and Cucumber to validate web applications and APIs.
• Design, develop, and execute complex automated software test plans in order to identify and address user problems and causes.
• Analyze requirements to generate artifacts table and test approach for automated test scripts development.
• Review testing documentation, develop testing standards, define criteria for testing, analyze test results, and present results to developers and end users.
• Develop and execute test scenarios, scripts, and procedures for unit, process, function, system integration and acceptance testing.
• Evaluate the test basis and support the refinement of requirements to ensure testability, clarity and correctness.
• Create or maintain databases of known test defects.
• Conduct test design activities to identify and create test cases (positive and negative) traceable to system requirements.
• Plan test schedules or strategies in accordance with project roadmap or delivery dates.
• Participate in product design reviews, providing input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules, or potential problems.
• Assist in the creation of software test plans to document the overall test strategy, test approach, test process, test schedule, pass/fail criteria, test environment architecture, test lab resources.
• Take ownership of setting up, configuring, and maintaining dedicated infrastructure servers and test environments from scratch to support high-performance automation execution.
• Deploy, manage, and configure automated test suites to run directly on internal staging servers or distributed grid nodes, ensuring stable, headless execution and reliable artifact/report collection.
• Analyze risk identifiers and develop documentation addressing software defect diagnostics and proposed solutions.
• Provide support for test readiness reviews, formal system verification of the requirements.
• Work closely with software developers, engineers, business analysts, and requirements personnel to plan, coordinate and execute static analysis and dynamic testing of systems/software code to verify, validate acceptance and technical specifications.
• Work with Atlassian tool suites including JIRA, Zephyr etc.

Years’ Experience: 7+ Years of experience. Education: Bachelor’s degree in IT related field. Clearance: Applicants must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance. United States Citizenship is required as part of the eligibility criteria to be able to obtain this type of security clearance. Key Skills:

• Experience with developing test plans, test cases, and test scripts.

• Automation and Manual Testing experience. o Selenium, MS Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, or other automation testing frameworks/tools. o LoadRunner and other manual testing tools. o TypeScript experience.

• Experience with User Acceptance Testing, Back-End, and End-to-End testing., * Bachelor’s degree in IT related field.
• 7+ years professional test engineering experience.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain up to a Secret security clearance. Active Secret security clearance preferred.
• Experience with developing software test plans, test cases, and test scripts

• Automation Testing experience required. o Selenium, MS Playwright, Cucumber, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit or other automation testing frameworks/tools. o LoadRunner and other manual testing tools experience.

• Proficient in designing and executing end-to-end automation frameworks using Playwright paired with Cucumber.
• Demonstrate expertise with Java and JavaScript with Selenium WebDriver in a Data Driven and/or behavior driven Framework.
• Experience with automation - functional and regressing testing procedures, and ability to review new requirements and UI flows while preparing new test case scenarios.
• Experience designing, writing, testing and documenting efficient testing solutions to meet customer needs.
• Experience with User Interface Acceptance Testing, backend testing, software testing.
• Experience with API Testing using Postman (manual) and Rest-Assured (automation) or comparable tools.
• Proven experience provisioning, configuring, and maintaining infrastructure servers (Linux) or cloud instances to serve as standalone test environments.

• Experience in all or some of the following programming platform a plus: o Linux and Bash scripting. o Java and JavaScript frameworks in HTML5/CSS3 context (AngularJS, jQuery, D3). o RESTful APIs/JSON. o SQL.

• Strong understanding of networking, permissions, and server configurations (e.g., managing dependencies, setting up execution nodes, and environment variables) required to support test execution.
• Experience working in DevOps setting (i.e. GitHub, Jenkins, Maven, JIRA, etc.) preferred.

• Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following: o Jenkins, Maven, Jira, Git/GitHub/GitBash/Stash/Bitbucket.

• Knowledge of other testing tools such as JMeter and LoadRunner a bonus.
• Ability to assess software products for readiness and determine pass/fail criteria.
• Ability to determine test approaches, develop test schedules, and identify risks associated with testing.
• Ability to capture test data, analyze test results and clearly communicate (orally and written) findings and/or deficiencies.
• Knowledge of the principles, practices and procedures of quality assurance testing automation.
• Experience with all phases of the SDLC as it applies to software testing activities.
• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• High energy; ability to manage time in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.
• Should be a team-player, quick learner, proactive and have a positive attitude.