Sr. Test Engineer

Salary range: 80-85k

Experience: 7 to 20+ years

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Job type: Full Time

Sr. Test Engineer

• Education: Bachelor's Degree / Associate's Degree
• Years of Experience: 5 years / 7 years
• Location: Telework (within the United States)
• Background Investigation: Tier 2 / Moderate Risk Background Investigation required

Description: The Sr. Test Engineer leads the design, development, and execution of automated testing strategies across a complex, mission-critical cloud platform hosted in AWS GovCloud supporting 300+ applications and 130+ monthly production releases. This role ensures all platform and application changes are validated through comprehensive automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, including unit, integration, regression, performance, and security testing, while mentoring junior test engineers and driving continuous improvement in test automation coverage and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of comprehensive automated testing strategies integrated into CI/CD pipelines across sandbox, staging, and production environments
• Develop and maintain automated unit, integration, regression, performance, and security test suites for platform services and hosted applications
• Ensure pipeline promotion processes enforce environment segregation with validated testing gates at each stage before production deployment
• Design and execute post-deployment production verification testing within two hours of each production change, documenting results and validation outcomes in associated change records
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks that support 130+ monthly production releases across 3,000+ CI/CD pipelines
• Implement and maintain container image vulnerability scanning and Infrastructure as Code scanning within CI/CD pipelines
• Design and execute failover testing including tabletop exercises, controlled simulations, and live production drills, validating RTO, RPO, data integrity, and monitoring accuracy
• Validate system readiness prior to production deployments, patches, and upgrades ensuring all capabilities and services are not degraded or disrupted
• Design and execute disaster recovery and incident response testing exercises, documenting test results, corrective actions, and lessons learned
• Develop rollback validation procedures ensuring backout plans function correctly when executed
• Define success criteria, acceptance criteria, and production-readiness criteria for all platform changes and new capability deployments
• Collaborate with DevSecOps, SRE, and development teams to align testing requirements with deployment strategies including blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments
• Mentor and guide junior test engineers on test design, automation best practices, and platform-specific testing patterns
• Contribute to the reliability backlog by identifying recurring test failures, flaky tests, and automation improvement opportunities
• Participate in Agile and SAFe ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, demos, and retrospectives

Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience leading test automation and quality engineering for complex, mission-critical cloud platforms in Federal or enterprise environments
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines for containerized, Kubernetes-based applications
• Proficiency with test automation frameworks and tools (Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cypress, or equivalent)
• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Gatling, Locust, or equivalent)
• Experience with security testing integration including SAST, DAST, SCA, and container scanning tools within CI/CD workflows
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and EKS testing considerations including pod health validation, service mesh testing, and cluster upgrade verification
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code testing and validation practices
• Familiarity with disaster recovery and failover testing methodologies including tabletop exercises and live production drills
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or equivalent) and artifact management (Nexus or equivalent)
• Knowledge of version control systems (Git, Bitbucket, or equivalent)
• Experience working in Agile or SAFe environments with sprint-based delivery cadences
• ISTQB Advanced Test Automation Engineer or equivalent certification preferred
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or equivalent certification preferred
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited academic institution with a minimum of 7 years of experience in test engineering or quality assurance, with at least 3 years leading test automation for cloud-native platforms in Federal or enterprise IT environments
• OR
• Associate's Degree from an accredited academic institution with a minimum of 9 years of experience in test engineering or quality assurance, with at least 4 years leading test automation for cloud-native platforms in Federal or enterprise IT environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) experience
• Active Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card
• Experience with post-deployment verification testing for platforms supporting 200+ applications
• Experience testing failover and disaster recovery procedures in AWS GovCloud multi-region environments

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and professional work environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. We offer comprehensive healthcare benefits, which will be discussed in detail prior to your first interview.