Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Guidehouse is hiring a QA Automation Engineer to validate application quality through manual and automated testing. The role develops and maintains test automation, integrates testing into CI/CD and DevSecOps workflows, and communicates release results, defects, and risks to stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain, and execute automated test scripts using relevant testing frameworks to validate application functionality across multiple user roles and workflows
- Design and implement UI automation using tools such as Playwright, ensuring automated test coverage is reliable, maintainable, and aligned with release objectives
- Lead test automation initiatives, including the integration of automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps processes
- Conduct manual testing of individual features, stress testing the system in order to ensure high quality deployments
- Create and organize testing suites in TestRails or a similar tool
- Periodically run full manual test suite to perform regression testing
- Conduct peer reviews of test automation code to promote quality, consistency, and adherence to engineering best practices
- Communicate test execution results, defects, risks, and recommendations to stakeholders during each release cycle
Skills
- U.S. citizenship or Green Card status is required, along with the ability to obtain a public trust clearance
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience in quality assurance, software testing, or application development for enterprise systems
- At least two (2) years of experience providing quality assurance and testing support for AWS-based workloads
- Bachelor's degree or four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree
- Demonstrated experience performing manual and automated testing, including defect documentation, issue reproduction, regression testing, and validation
- Strong experience developing test automation using Playwright with JavaScript or TypeScript, along with API testing, performance testing, Swagger, and Postman
- Experience designing, maintaining, and integrating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions with AWS services such as Systems Manager and PostgreSQL
- Proficiency testing applications and workloads built with AWS services and technologies, including Vue.js, Python, Django, and Amazon S3
- Ability to work effectively in a remote environment while collaborating with, mentoring, and supporting team members to resolve complex technical issues
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including planning, testing, and supporting iterative software releases
- Ability to test and validate workloads against AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and related quality standards
- Experience supporting or testing Python/Django-based web applications
- Experience conducting penetration, performance, or load testing for applications hosted in AWS cloud environments
- Experience configuring and validating application monitoring, alerting, and error tracking using Sentry or similar tools
- Knowledge of Section 508 accessibility testing standards, requirements, and validation practices
Benefits
- Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Personal and Family Sick Time & Company Paid Holidays
- Parental Leave
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Group Term Life and Travel Assistance
- Voluntary Life and AD&D Insurance
- Health Savings Account, Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Transit and Parking Commuter Benefits
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Development, Certifications & Learning Opportunities
- Employee Referral Program
- Corporate Sponsored Events & Community Outreach
- Care.com annual membership
- Employee Assistance Program
- Supplemental Benefits via Corestream (Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Accident Insurance, Legal Assistance and ID theft protection, etc.)
- Position may be eligible for a discretionary variable incentive bonus
- Flexible benefits package
- Flexible work arrangement
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