Test Automation Engineer – Lead

Position Details

Title: Test Automation Engineer – Lead

Location: Washington DC (Hybrid)

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Notes

• Only candidates local to DMV region will be considered.
• Hybrid – candidate will be required to be on-site 3x/week.

Responsibilities

• Perform and write automated functional, system, regression, and integration testing.
• Design, develop, and execute automated tests.
• Extend and enhance existing test automation frameworks and tools.
• Ensure test environments are prepared and ready for execution of test scenarios.
• Execute test cases to validate system functionality prior to releasing to UAT/customers.
• Work closely with engineering and QA to manage and improve the development pipeline by integrating with CI/CD tools.
• Triage, document, and perform troubleshooting and diagnosis of defects reported by customers or internally to determine steps to reproduce.
• Execute regression testing to validate defect resolution and verify existing functionality is unaffected.
• Identify, record, and document test results to enable efficient resolution of defects.
• Develop automated tests for regression and reproduction of defects.
• Design, develop and execute automation scripts using open‑source tools.
• Liaise with internal teams (e.g., developers and project managers) to identify system requirements.
• Investigate the causes of non‑conforming software.
• Track quality assurance metrics, like defect densities and open defect counts.
• Document QA procedures for team.
• Other responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of full-time professional experience with testing automation and quality assurance, and testing methodologies.
• Strong understanding of agile software development processes.
• Strong technical skills, work ethic, independence, problem solving ability, and overall positive attitude.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Proficiency with programming languages.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks with varying priorities.
• Ability to communicate ideas in a variety of formats.
• Proficiency with financial concepts, business math.
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to multi‑task in a fast‑paced environment and manage priorities with deadlines.
• Adheres to Agile development methodology.
• Proficiency with quality assurance terminology, methods, and tools.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or the equivalent combination of education and successful work experience.

Technical Skills

• Microsoft Office products – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, MS Visio, MS Project, Microsoft Teams, Power Automate.
• Knowledge and understanding of SQL.
• Proficient with Java, JUnit, TestNG.
• Experience with Python, Selenium.
• Experience with RPA and associated tools.
• Experience with Blue Prism, UIPath, RestEasy or similar API automation.
• Experience with JMeter.
• Experience with Git.
• Experience with Bash and SSH.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.