QA Automation Engineer — Cypress, API & Accessibility

International Executive Service Corps; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis is seeking a Software Tester / QA Automation Engineer to own validation across UI, API, and performance for a modernized government application. You will build and maintain automated Cypress-based testing, integrate quality gates into CI/CD, and ensure accessibility and data integrity across Oracle-backed systems.

The role requires 4+ years in QA/testing, strong Cypress and JavaScript/TypeScript skills, API automation experience, and a commitment to secure SDLC practices, including

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software QA/testing across web apps, REST APIs, data integration, and multi-tier enterprise systems.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated test frameworks and reusable test suites.
• Strong hands-on Cypress experience for UI, end-to-end, regression, and integration testing; JavaScript/TypeScript scripting.
• Experience with API automation/testing tools or libraries such as Cypress API testing, Postman/Newman, REST Assured, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and enforcing pass/fail quality gates for builds and releases.
• Experience validating Oracle-backed applications, data integrity, service integration, and authentication mechanisms such as SAML/OAuth2/OIDC.
• DHS Trusted Tester certification or equivalent demonstrated Section 508/WCAG 2.1 AA testing competency required.
• Experience with performance/load testing tools such as JMeter, Locust, k6, or equivalent.
• FISMA/NIST-informed testing evidence, secure SDLC controls, and compliance-oriented documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop the overall test approach and maintain traceability from requirements and acceptance criteria to test cases, automated tests, defects, and release evidence.
• Design, implement, and maintain Cypress automation covering critical user journeys, functional regression, negative scenarios, cross-browser behavior, and integration workflows.
• Create reusable test utilities, fixtures, data-management patterns, page/component abstractions, mocks/stubs where appropriate, and stable selector strategies to reduce flaky tests.
• Automate REST API validation and combine API- and UI-level testing to provide efficient end-to-end coverage.
• Integrate Cypress and other automated suites into CI/CD pipelines; configure repeatable execution, reports, artifacts/screenshots/videos where supported, and build/release quality gates.
• Execute functional, system, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and release-readiness testing across UI, middleware, Oracle data, and external interfaces.
• Validate authentication, authorization, session behavior, error handling, data integrity, and workflow orchestration across application tiers.
• Perform Section 508/WCAG accessibility testing using DHS Trusted Tester methodology and appropriate automated/manual accessibility tools; document evidence and remediation findings.
• Design and execute performance/load tests for medium and major features against defined SLAs and nonfunctional requirements; analyze response time, throughput, latency, errors, and resource behavior.
• Manage defects through triage, severity/priority assignment, reproduction evidence, retesting, regression analysis, and closure; identify recurring defect patterns and quality risks.
• Maintain test data and environment dependencies in coordination with developers, DBA, security, and operations staff.
• Publish sprint/release quality metrics such as automation pass rate, regression coverage, defect leakage, defect aging, accessibility findings, performance results, and release blockers.
• Participate in refinement and acceptance-criteria development so testability, edge cases, automation needs, and nonfunctional requirements are defined before implementation.

Skills

QA Testing

Cypress

JavaScript/TypeScript

API Testing

CI/CD

Auth Protocols

Section 508/WCAG

Performance Testing

Oracle Data

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

Postman/Newman

REST Assured

JMeter

Locust

k6

Job description

NuAxis is seeking a Software Tester / QA Automation Engineer to own validation across UI, API, and performance for a modernized government application. You will build and maintain automated Cypress-based testing, integrate quality gates into CI/CD, and ensure accessibility and data integrity across Oracle-backed systems.

The role requires 4+ years in QA/testing, strong Cypress and JavaScript/TypeScript skills, API automation experience, and a commitment to secure SDLC practices, including