Contract AI-Driven QA Engineer & SDET | Remote

Eliassen Group; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET for a remote contract role serving government projects. The position emphasizes CI/CD-integrated automated testing, AI-driven test-script generation, and security validation across cloud-native Java services.

Applicants must be United States citizens with a Public Trust clearance and willingness to work on a W2 basis. The role offers a competitive hourly rate and comprehensive benefits for eligible W2 consultants.

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale test automation and QA systems.
• CI/CD automated testing in GitLab, Tekton, or Argo CD.
• AI-assisted testing for coding, requirements, test creation, debugging, and analysis.
• Hands-on with Playwright, JUnit/TestNG, REST/contract testing, and performance testing.
• Experience with AWS, multi-account/VPC patterns, and OpenShift.

Responsibilities

• Perform software testing across unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and security domains.
• Develop test plans and create automated test scripts integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead AI-driven test-script generation and maintenance using AI tooling.
• Debug software issues, analyze failures, and determine root causes.
• Execute feature testing for cloud-native Java services on ECS, EKS, and OpenShift.
• Validate environments across Dev, Test, and Ops; manage lab setups.
• Integrate security and compliance testing (SAST/DAST/IaC) and policy-as-code.
• Collaborate with developers within Agile teams.
• Support continuous monitoring and evidence generation for ATO.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

AI-assisted testing

Linux

Cloud testing

Agile communication

Tools

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST testing

Contract testing

Performance testing

AWS

ECS

EKS

OpenShift

SAST

DAST

SCA

IaC scanning

Policy-as-code

Kubernetes

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET for a remote contract role serving government projects. The position emphasizes CI/CD-integrated automated testing, AI-driven test-script generation, and security validation across cloud-native Java services.

Applicants must be United States citizens with a Public Trust clearance and willingness to work on a W2 basis. The role offers a competitive hourly rate and comprehensive benefits for eligible W2 consultants.