Senior Test Engineer, Automation

Position:

Senior Test Engineer, Automation

• Mode: Long term temp - extensions processed every 6 months (June/Dec)
• Team: BigFuture

The national educational organization is conducting a search for a Sr. Test Engineer, Automation for our Technology division. This position is based in our Reston, Virginia office or via remote work arrangement. Named by Fast Company as one of the most innovative education companies, the organization is a mission-focused entity. This job requires a strong focus on improving educational opportunities and outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged students, in the context of a competitive business environment.

• Responsible for coding and executing automation test scripts.
• Analyze user stories and create automated integration, system, and acceptance test cases to ensure software quality and compliance with business intent.
• Analyze scoring functional requirements, develop, execute test cases, test scripts for User interface, API, relational database, and evaluate test results to determine compliance with test plans and established business processes.

What You'll Do

• Design, improve, and maintain automated testing frameworks and methodologies, and establish modern testing best practices across multiple products.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and partner with DevOps teams to ensure stable, reliable, and scalable automated test execution environments.
• Develop automation scripts using tools and technologies such as Playwright, Jest, Mocha, Chai, Sinon, Selenium, Cypress, BrowserStack, and Postman.
• Build and execute automated tests for frontend applications, browser interactions, serverless Node.js backends, and APIs.
• Test and validate mobile application functionality on real iOS and Android devices, ensuring compatibility, performance, and end-to-end reliability.
• Develop and maintain UI automation for native mobile applications and automate backend validation for mobile workflows.
• Utilize AWS services, such as Lambda, S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and related components to validate application behavior, data processing, integrations, and backend workflows.
• Define and produce comprehensive test strategies, test plans, scenarios, and test data aligned with business and technical requirements.
• Perform both automated and manual testing, including functional, regression, integration, system, exploratory, accessibility, and compatibility testing.
• Investigate defects by reproducing issues, validating fixes, and documenting findings clearly for development teams.
• Provide mentorship and technical leadership in QA automation, guiding team members on frameworks, tools, and best practices.
• Collaborate closely with software engineers, product owners, and business analysts to identify appropriate test coverage and ensure high-quality story delivery.
• Validate and confirm externally reported issues, communicate details to development teams, and verify resolutions.
• Contribute to the evaluation, selection, and implementation of testing tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance automation and overall QA effectiveness.
• Participate actively in Agile ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, results, and quality metrics through clear verbal and written updates.
• Maintain a strong understanding of application architecture, AWS cloud components, mobile technologies, and evolving business requirements to continuously refine testing practices and coverage.
• Code automated tests for:

+ JS frontend/browser interaction

+ Serverless Node.js backends

• Provide guidance to others in carrying out QA duties while performing technically advanced responsibilities.
• Establish and maintain technical testing methodologies and processes.
• Develop test strategies, scenarios, and plans. Oversee the development of and/or develops and maintains test data.
• Develop and deliver verbal and written status reports on the testing of the features.
• Work with software engineers and product owners to identify tests to ensure quality and accuracy of story delivery.
• Assist in the confirmation of bugs reported from outside sources, document and communicate them to the development team. Verify when resolved.
• Assist in the identification, selection, and implementation of software tools and technologies, and testing techniques and procedures that facilitate automated testing and quality assurance.

About You

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or MIS.
• 5 - 7 years of experience in software systems, programming, testing, and quality assurance.
• Working experience with tools cited above.
• Strong JavaScript and Node.js development experience.
• Solid understanding of HTML, CSS, and browser DOM.
• Experience working in Agile methodologies.
• Working experience with CICD and DevOps.
• Experience testing code running in Amazon Web Services, especially AWS Lambda.
• Experience developing testing strategies and identifying comprehensive test scenarios based on business requirements.
• Experience in leveraging AI tools for automated testing.
• Ability to mentor development team on QA automation practices and modern testing strategies.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Must be able to work as a member of cross-functional project teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical ability.
• Able to function both with minimal supervision and in a team-oriented unit.
• Deep interest in expanding educational opportunities for all students.