Automation Test Engineer – Secret Clearance

Ariel Partners; Stafford (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ariel Partners is a software services firm providing agile development and maintenance for CODIS, a FBI DNA analysis system built on .NET. The Test Engineer will design, expand, and maintain our test suite, working with DevOps and developers to ensure scalability and quality.

The role requires active security clearance and hands-on testing in a collaborative, agile team. The candidate will contribute across front-end, API, and data layer tests, participate in cross-browser testing, and support

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• Minimum 1+ years of automation testing experience.
• Experience developing and maintaining test suites.

Responsibilities

• Design, expand, improve, and maintain the test suite.
• Collaborate with DevOps and developers to ensure quality.
• Execute and report on functional, integration, and performance tests.

Skills

Automation testing

Test suite development

Selenium

Playwright

Appium

Robot

Cucumber

JMeter

K6

LoadRunner

Web/API testing

Manual testing

Agile SAFe/Scrum

Cross-browser testing

Tools

Xray

TestRail

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

AWS

Job description

Ariel Partners is a software services firm providing agile development and maintenance for CODIS, a FBI DNA analysis system built on .NET. The Test Engineer will design, expand, and maintain our test suite, working with DevOps and developers to ensure scalability and quality.

The role requires active security clearance and hands-on testing in a collaborative, agile team. The candidate will contribute across front-end, API, and data layer tests, participate in cross-browser testing, and support