Remote QA Automation Engineer — End-to-End & Performance

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Active Secret Clearance

UAT experience

SW QA background

Job summary

ECS Corporate Services is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our Professional Services team, working remotely with a focus on end-to-end testing, automation, performance testing, and UAT across web apps, APIs, and data platforms.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Python-based testing, and tools like Jira, Confluence, and Locust, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to ensure release readiness and robust quality.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks and testing tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Python-based testing solutions, Jira, Confluence, and Locust.
• Experience validating web applications, APIs, data platforms, and third-party integrations.
• Ability to coordinate with engineers, TPMs, product owners, and customers throughout the software lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive test plans covering functional, integration, end-to-end, performance, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Define test strategies, scenarios, acceptance criteria, and release readiness metrics with stakeholders.
• Design, develop, and execute automated test suites for web apps, APIs, and integrated workflows.
• Perform end-to-end testing across frontend, APIs, Databricks environments, and third-party integrations.
• Validate role-based access controls, security requirements, and data access restrictions.
• Coordinate and facilitate multiple rounds of UAT, document findings, and support final release approvals.
• Design and execute performance and load testing using Locust and identify bottlenecks under concurrent load.
• Conduct regression testing to ensure quality and stability prior to production releases.
• Produce testing reports, quality metrics, defect summaries, and release recommendations.
• Utilize Jira and Confluence to manage testing activities and track defects.

Skills

Selenium

Playwright

Python-based testing

Performance testing

UAT

API testing

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Locust

Databricks

Job description

ECS Corporate Services is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to join our Professional Services team, working remotely with a focus on end-to-end testing, automation, performance testing, and UAT across web apps, APIs, and data platforms.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright, Python-based testing, and tools like Jira, Confluence, and Locust, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders to ensure release readiness and robust quality.