Senior Automation Engineer

Responsibilities

• Establish enterprise testing standards, procedures, tools, test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability practices.
• Design test coverage for functional, integration, system, regression, performance, user acceptance, negative, boundary, and edge-case testing.
• Develop and maintain automated test suites, validation frameworks, quality gates, and continuous-testing capabilities.
• Evaluate and implement AI-assisted techniques for test generation, coverage analysis, synthetic test data, regression testing, defect analysis, and quality assurance.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, release-readiness assessments, test documentation, traceability reporting, and quality-control activities.
• Collaborate with government stakeholders, program managers, engineers, architects, product owners, cybersecurity teams, and contractors to improve system quality and reliability.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• At least five years of experience leading testing for complex software applications.
• Extensive hands-on experience with test-automation frameworks, testing tools, defect-management platforms, and automated validation solutions.
• Experience integrating automated testing, continuous testing, and quality gates into Agile and DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using AI-assisted testing techniques for test generation, automation development, regression testing, coverage analysis, or defect investigation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills focused on accuracy, consistency, repeatability, and reliability.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for collaboration across technical, program, customer, and contractor teams.
• Additional qualifications may include experience with U.S. Census Bureau systems, federal modernization initiatives, AI-powered testing platforms, synthetic test data, automated defect triage, accessibility, usability, performance, security, cloud-native, or enterprise data-system testing.
• U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must successfully complete a background check and be able to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance when required.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with employer match.
• PTO and federal holidays.
• Corporate laptop.
• Training opportunities.
• 100% remote position for candidates residing within the continental U.S., with travel to the Washington, DC metropolitan area as needed.
• The position is contingent upon contract award.