QA/SDET Engineer: AI-Test, Cloud & CI/CD (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

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

The tester will diagnose root causes, collaborate with developers, and operate across Linux-based and cloud environments. US citizenship with Public Trust is required; W2 benefits apply.

Qualifications

• Test automation at scale with QA standards.
• CI/CD automated testing using GitLab, Tekton or Argo CD.
• AI-assisted testing for coding, requirements, test creation, debugging, and analysis.
• Hands-on with Playwright, JUnit/TestNG, REST and contract testing, and performance testing.
• Container and Kubernetes test harnesses across ECS, EKS, OpenShift.
• Security and compliance testing including SAST/DAST/SCA/IaC scanning.
• Experience with AWS multi-account/VPC patterns and segmentation.
• On-prem to AWS migration experience for containerized workloads.
• FISMA High, FedRAMP High, STIGs, NIST 800-53 controls familiarity.
• Linux proficiency and Java-based application environments.
• Strong troubleshooting in cloud and lab environments.
• Effective communication in Scaled Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform software testing across unit, integration, end-to-end, and security domains.
• Develop test plans and automated scripts integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead AI-driven test-script generation and maintenance using AI tooling.
• Debug 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 and manage labs.
• Integrate security and compliance testing (SAST/DAST/SCA).
• Collaborate with developers within Agile teams and support ATO evidence.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

AI-assisted testing

Cloud testing

Linux

Java environments

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST testing

Kubernetes

OpenShift

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

Job description

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

The tester will diagnose root causes, collaborate with developers, and operate across Linux-based and cloud environments. US citizenship with Public Trust is required; W2 benefits apply.