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Quantico, VA
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
Career Level not specified
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Job Description
We are seeking a Senior QA Automation Engineer to support a large-scale federal modernization and data migration initiative. In this role, you will lead automated testing efforts, ensuring system reliability, data integrity, and overall application performance across cloud and on-premises environments. You will work alongside software developers, cloud engineers, migration specialists, DevSecOps teams, and product owners to deliver secure, mission-critical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Test Automation & Framework Development
Quality Assurance & Validation
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Documentation & Reporting
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Location: Quantico, VA
Key Responsibilities
Test Automation & Framework Development
- Architect, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks supporting UI, API, microservices, and data validation workflows.
- Create scalable and reusable automated test scripts that integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and execute automated functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end test suites to validate system readiness and stability.
Quality Assurance & Validation
- Verify large-scale data migration accuracy, completeness, and integrity through automated and manual validation processes.
- Execute comprehensive testing across both cloud-hosted and on-premise environments.
- Identify, document, track, and support resolution of software defects and data-related issues.
- Support release readiness activities through smoke testing, deployment validation, and post-release verification.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with development, cloud, migration, QA, and DevSecOps teams throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, story grooming, and release readiness reviews.
- Perform API testing, interface validation, and integration testing across service-oriented and microservices-based architectures.
Documentation & Reporting
- Develop and maintain test plans, automated test scripts, test cases, and execution reports.
- Produce regression coverage reports, defect documentation, and test result summaries.
- Ensure all testing deliverables comply with program standards, security requirements, and contractual obligations.
Required Qualifications
- Active Top Secret Security Clearance and U.S. Citizenship.
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of experience in Software Testing, QA Automation, Test Engineering, or related disciplines.
- Strong hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework, Postman, or equivalent solutions.
- Experience developing and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of:
- API testing and validation
- Microservices architectures
- Automated regression testing
- Integration testing methodologies
- Experience validating large-scale data migrations and diagnosing data quality or integrity issues.
- Excellent analytical, communication, troubleshooting, and documentation skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting DOJ, FBI, Intelligence Community, DoD, or other national security programs.
- Experience testing cloud-native applications, services, or data workflows, preferably within AWS environments.
- Familiarity with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, or Gatling.
- Scripting experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Experience working within Agile, DevSecOps, and secure software development environments.
Location: Quantico, VA
group id: 10430981
