QA Automation Test Engineer

QA Automation Test EngineerAretum is a mission-driven organization committed to delivering innovative, technology-enabled solutions to our customers across defense, civilian, and homeland security sectors. Our teams work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and transformation, helping agencies solve their most critical challenges. We believe in investing in our people and creating a culture where collaboration, inclusion, and professional growth are at the forefront.Serve as a QA Automation Test Engineer supporting an Agile team responsible for creating, maintaining, and enhancing applications for a federal government client. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, developing, executing, and maintaining manual and automated testing solutions that ensure application quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability.Due to the nature of our work as a federal consulting organization, employees may be expected to handle Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and must adhere to applicable safeguarding and compliance requirements.ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, and testing approaches that support the level of automation needed for application quality and delivery objectives.Provide clear feedback by following the standard testing process in writing detailed descriptions, acceptance criteria, identifying problems and documenting steps in the ticketing system.Build and maintain reusable automated test scripts, utilities, and testing components that reduce repetitive testing efforts and improve testing efficiency.Design, implement, and support scalable test automation frameworks that enable consistent and maintainable automated testing across teams.Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, end-to-end, and user story validation testing throughout the software development lifecycle.Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers and Testers to determine quality expectations during backlog refinement and sprint planning.Contribute to the team's Definition of Done (DoD) by ensuring appropriate test coverage, successful test execution, and quality validation prior to story completion.Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and leverage continuous integration practices to provide rapid feedback on code quality.Develop and execute load, performance, and scalability tests to validate application stability, reliability, and capacity under expected usage conditions.Analyze test results, identify defects and risks, measure test coverage, and provide actionable recommendations to improve overall software quality and release readiness.