Quality Engineer - Automation & Cloud Testing

Accenture Federal Services; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a quality-focused engineer to own automated testing for federal applications and cloud-based services. You will design, build, and maintain end-to-end tests, partner with product and engineering to define acceptance criteria, and establish robust quality metrics and dashboards.

As you gain experience, you’ll lead quality strategy for larger areas, mentor peers, and drive improvements across teams while integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines and embracing

Qualifications

• Professional experience in software quality engineering or comparable validation work.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, JUnit, PyTest, or comparable technologies.
• Experience testing APIs, web applications, integrations, data flows, or cloud-based applications.
• Understanding of test design, regression testing, defect management, acceptance criteria, and quality metrics.
• Experience working with source control, Agile delivery teams, and automated build or deployment processes.
• For candidates with deeper experience, demonstrated ability to define test strategy, improve frameworks, mentor others, and influence release decisions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, and execute automated tests across UI, API, integration, regression, smoke, and end-to-end testing layers.
• Partner with product and engineering teams early in delivery to clarify acceptance criteria, identify quality risks, and improve testability.
• Create test plans, test data, defect workflows, reporting, and quality metrics that support release decisions and continuous improvement.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and help teams shift quality left throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Validate APIs, web applications, data flows, integrations, and cloud-based applications across functional and nonfunctional requirements.
• Support performance, security, accessibility, Section 508, compliance-oriented, and reliability validation as program needs require.
• Use AFS-approved AI-assisted testing and engineering tools to accelerate test design, automation, analysis, defect investigation, and documentation while validating results.
• Collaborate with Digital Experience Engineers, Business Application Engineers, Product Managers, Cloud Platform Engineers, architects, security teams, and client stakeholders.
• As your experience grows, lead quality strategy for larger product areas, improve frameworks and dashboards, mentor others, and establish quality engineering standards across teams.

Skills

Test automation

QA engineering

Automation frameworks

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Appium

JUnit

PyTest

Job description

Accenture Federal Services is seeking a quality-focused engineer to own automated testing for federal applications and cloud-based services. You will design, build, and maintain end-to-end tests, partner with product and engineering to define acceptance criteria, and establish robust quality metrics and dashboards.

As you gain experience, you’ll lead quality strategy for larger areas, mentor peers, and drive improvements across teams while integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines and embracing