Senior Quality Assurance Engineer; Automation - Remote

Position: Senior Quality Assurance Engineer (Automation) - Remote
Description

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* Please note:

This role is contingent upon a contract award._*
* ICF is hiring a Quality Assurance Engineer to deliver new test functionality and support existing frameworks. This position requires strong deductive reasoning, attention to detail, persistence, patience, and creativity. The individual will work with our component, integration, internal development teams, and Business Analysts teams to analyze, build and maintain test frameworks and suites across all test phases. The individual also work with our business, development, and testing teams to analyze, build and maintain processes across the organization. 

** Responsibilities:**  

+ Review and analyze business requirements to produce comprehensive, and well-structured test strategy and test cases. 

+ Design and create test conditions and scripts to address business and technical use cases. 

+ Design, Develop and Execute automated scripts using our test automation framework. 

+ Support the automated functional testing by our testing team, focusing on application flow and validation of test results. 

+ Perform manual and automated testing, which may include exploratory, system, regression, compatibility, system, and integration testing. 

+ Work directly with the Data Warehouse, Business Intelligence and Data Engineering teams to ensure all work is thoroughly tested. 

+ Communicate effectively across multiple teams/external vendors (Operations, Quality Service, etc.), as well as different personnel (Developers, Scrum Masters, Project Managers, etc.). 

+ Participate in relevant Agile Ceremonies:
Daily Stand-Ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Planning, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives. 

+ Analyze data and application changes and document their impact on the performance automation task (test cases, scripting, scenario execution, etc.). 

+ Ensure the test execution results fulfill the defined test objectives. 

+ Interface directly with the Dev Ops and Infrastructure teams regarding Functional test environments. 

+ Timely and accurate communication of testing events, daily status, and test execution results, etc. 

+ Develop and maintain automation for both UI and API testing, leveraging tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, and Postman.

+ Implement automated regression suites integrated into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).

+ Collaborate with developers to validate microservices, containerized environments, and AWS-hosted applications.

+ Design performance, load, and reliability test scenarios to validate large-scale data processing and reporting systems.

+ Contribute to code reviews for automated test scripts to ensure maintainability and reusability across teams.

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* Basic Qualifications:

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+ Bachelor's degree OR completion of 6+ weeks of a programming boot camp plus 1+ year of IT-related experience; OR 4 years of relevant industry experience without a formal degree

+ 5+ years of experience with test automation development (eg: Cypress, Ruby, Playwright, JS, Python, Selenium). 

+ Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance

+ Must have lived in the US 3 full years out of the last 5 years

+ Must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US; work must be performed in the US. 

** Professional

Skills:

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+ Ability to design/architect, build, program, test and deploy solutions using an Agile methodology. 

+ Ability to optimize code/script using industry best practices and standards. 

+ Ability to work in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment. 

+ Strong hands-on skills in SQL development; ability to create ad-hoc queries to meet business needs. 

+ Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow-through. 

+ Demonstrated functional test experience, including test analysis. 

+ Experience working with cloud-native environments (AWS preferred), microservices, and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.

+ Strong understanding of CI/CD practices and integration of automated tests into build pipelines.

+ Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools (e.g., Splunk, Cloud Watch, New Relic) to validate releases and production health.

+ Comfortable collaborating across…