Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineer

Applied Information Sciences; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Applied Information Sciences is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer specializing in Cloud Migration Test Automation. The role focuses on building automated validation tests for Azure and AWS migrations, validating configurations, and delivering evidence for migration readiness.

You will work remotely on a mission-driven, employee-owned team delivering impactful client solutions. Responsibilities include developing test scripts, leading automation initiatives, and ensuring QA best practices

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of software testing or quality engineering experience, including building automated test frameworks.
• Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills for developing automated validation scripts and reusable test utilities.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, API, and database testing.
• Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, pytest, or Robot Framework.

Responsibilities

• Develops reusable automated test scripts and frameworks to validate migrated applications.
• Establishes baselines before migration and compares post-migration results to identify failures.
• Validates Azure and AWS configurations after migration, including networking, connectivity, and cloud services.
• Validates APIs, interfaces, integrations, and databases for data integrity and access.
• Executes smoke, regression, and performance tests against baselines.
• Integrates automated tests into CI/CD pipelines for reporting.
• Manages test cases, results, defects, and traceability in test tools (e.g., Jama Connect).
• Shares results, risks, and Go/No-Go recommendations with the team lead.

Skills

PowerShell

Python scripting

Selenium

Playwright

CI/CD

Jama Connect

API testing

Azure/AWS

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Postman

Job description

Why AIS?

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

Employee Ownership : Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

Continuous Learning : Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

Inclusive Culture : A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

Mission-Driven Work : Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

What are we looking for?

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

What you will be doing?

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

At AIS, we are dedicated to providing our employees with diverse opportunities to grow their careers while supporting a variety of impactful projects. For this position, we are seeking a talented individual to join AIS as a Senior Infrastructure Engineer.

Core Knowledge & Skills: Designs complex network and hybrid‑cloud solutions; implements security controls, DR/BCP, and automated IaC with deployment pipelines; performs advanced performance tuning.

Work & Complexity: Solves complex issues, designs and delivers new infrastructure solutions, performs capacity planning, and leads advanced automation initiatives.

Quality & Independence: Drives root‑cause analysis, enforces best practices and QA on changes, optimizes for reliability and user experience; operates with high autonomy.

Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross‑functional efforts, mentors juniors, facilitates knowledge transfer, and aligns stakeholders with technical plans.

Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic input on infrastructure initiatives, recommends advanced technologies, and manages vendor relationships.

As your initial project assignment, you will support the unique needs of our client as a Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineer.

Project Summary

The Cloud Migration Test Automation Engineer ensures that applications work as expected after moving from on‑premises data centers to Azure and AWS as part of a large‑scale enterprise cloud migration program. The role is a hands‑on technical engineer who builds automated validation tests, performs technical validation of migrated applications, and prepares acceptance evidence for a migration team. The role is remote.

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains reusable automated test scripts and frameworks that validate migrated applications and speed up repeatable validation across applications.
• Establishes technical baselines before migration and compares post‑migration results against them to identify failures.
• Validates Azure and AWS configurations after migration, including networking, connectivity, DNS, identity, and cloud services.
• Validates APIs, application interfaces, integrations, and databases, including data integrity and application data access.
• Executes smoke, regression, and performance and reliability tests against agreed baselines.
• Integrates automated test execution and reporting into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manages test cases, results, defects, and requirements traceability in approved test management tools, including Jama Connect where applicable.
• Assembles technical acceptance evidence for each migrated application and shares results, risks, and Go/No‑Go recommendations with the team lead.

Required For This Opportunity

• US Citizen
• Minimum five years of software testing or quality engineering experience, including building automated test frameworks
• Strong PowerShell and Python scripting skills for developing automated validation scripts and reusable test utilities
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, API, and database testing- Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, pytest, or Robot Framework
• Ability to independently develop and execute technical validation scripts
• Works on complex problems without appreciable direction and provides functional leadership to team members

Nice to Have Skills

• Experience testing applications during cloud migrations- Experience with Jama Connect, or integrating test automation frameworks with enterprise test management platforms
• Experience testing applications hosted in Azure or AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, Newman, or REST Assur