Posted Sep 29, 2026

Senior Functional & Automation Tester, Remote

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Job Description: • Plan, design, and execute functional and automated testing for modern applications, focusing on quality, security, performance, and operational readiness. • Collaborate with Product, Development, Security, and Operations (DevSecOps) teams. • Lead sprint, release, and project planning by identifying testing scope, risks, environments, test data, and tools. • Translate business and technical requirements into test strategies, plans, and detailed functional, integration, regression, performance, and security test cases. • Review requirements and develop test cases, scripts, and data for workflows, edge cases, and error handling. • Execute functional, manual, and exploratory testing and document results with reproduction steps and evidence. • Build and maintain automated unit, API, integration, and UI tests using team frameworks and coding standards. • Validate event- and message-based services and distributed workflows, including Apache Kafka message-queue systems. • Test API-centric and cloud-ready architectures, including microservices and serverless applications. • Log, track, and retest defects; participate in defect triage and root-cause analysis. • Follow secure testing and data-handling procedures and escalate security or privacy concerns. • Contribute to CI/CD testing by executing automated suites, reviewing results, and maintaining test automation. • Maintain test plans, evidence, dashboards, and runbooks for auditable, operationally ready releases. • Apply observability fundamentals, including logs, metrics, and alerts, to support troubleshooting and improve coverage. • Use AI-assisted development and testing tools to accelerate test creation and analysis within quality and security guidelines. • Perform other assigned duties supporting delivery, quality, and operational objectives. Requirements: • A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is preferred. • 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance/control, software development and/or related field. • Experience working in Agile delivery teams and applying Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices. • Familiarity with change/configuration management and lifecycle tooling (for example: VersionOne, ServiceNow) and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) practices. • Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration (for example: Docker, Kubernetes), including security and environment considerations. • Experience with Kubernetes security practices and testing in containerized production-like environments. • Familiarity with AI-assisted development/testing tools such as OpenCode, Claude Code, and Gemini Vertex AI to improve efficiency in test creation and analysis (within approved governance). • Extensive experience testing software applications, identifying/documenting defects, and working with developers and end users to resolve defects. • Extensive experience with multiple defect tracking tools (e.g. Rational, Mercury). • Experience producing test evidence and documentation suitable for audit or compliance reviews. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Must be a US Citizen or have permanent residence status (Green Card). • Must be able to obtain Public Trust Clearance. • Must have lived in the United States for the past 5 years. • Cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last 5 years. Military Service excluded. Benefits: • 100% remote position