QA Automation Engineer for CI/CD & DevSecOps

Dovel Technologies, Inc; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 131,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k)

Tuition Reimbursement

Transit Benefits

Holiday & Sick Time

Job summary

Guidehouse in McLean, VA is seeking a QA/Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain testing strategies across the SDLC in an Agile/DevSecOps environment. You will collaborate with developers, analysts, product owners, and DevOps to validate functionality, identify defects early, and improve automation coverage.

The ideal candidate has strong manual and automated testing skills, experience with CI/CD, and a quality-first mindset, and will contribute to automation frameworks and

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in software quality assurance and test automation.
• Experience supporting Agile Scrum software development environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and DevSecOps delivery models.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and integrated enterprise systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, and test data.
• Review business, functional, technical, and user requirements to ensure complete test coverage.
• Execute functional, integration, regression, system, end-to-end, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Validate software releases against business requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure compliance with established testing standards, quality processes, and documentation requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify quality risks and mitigation strategies early in the development process.
• Develop, enhance, and maintain automated test frameworks and reusable test assets.
• Create automated UI, API, database, and integration test suites.
• Continuously improve automated test coverage and reduce manual testing effort where practical.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
• Evaluate and recommend testing tools, frameworks, and automation best practices.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Agile Scrum

SDET

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Jenkins

REST Assured

Postman

JUnit

TestNG

JMeter

Git

Katalon Studio

SonarQube

Jira

GCP DevOps

Azure DevOps

Job description

Guidehouse in McLean, VA is seeking a QA/Test Automation Engineer to design, develop, and maintain testing strategies across the SDLC in an Agile/DevSecOps environment. You will collaborate with developers, analysts, product owners, and DevOps to validate functionality, identify defects early, and improve automation coverage.

The ideal candidate has strong manual and automated testing skills, experience with CI/CD, and a quality-first mindset, and will contribute to automation frameworks and