Remote QA Automation Engineer for Federal Systems

Northramp LLC; United States; À distance; USD 110 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health Care Plan

401k Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Work From Home

Training & Development

Wellness Resources

Résumé du poste

Northramp LLC is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to deliver secure, reliable software in a federal environment. You will design and maintain automated tests, integrate into CI/CD, and support audits and compliance across cloud-based applications.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in software quality assurance, strong automation skills with Java/Python/JavaScript, and experience with Selenium, Katalon, JMeter, and Harness. Remote-friendly with occasional onsite in the DC area.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field; equivalent professional experience considered.
• 3-5 years experience in software quality assurance with a focus on test automation engineering.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for test automation such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools such as Selenium, Katalon, JMeter, Axe by Deque, and Postman.
• Familiarity integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using Harness, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.
• Understanding of software development life cycles, Agile methodologies, and shift-left testing practices.
• Experience working within federal compliance environments including FedRAMP, FISMA, or NIST standards.
• Experience with Google Cloud.
• Previous federal contracting or government program experience.
• Certifications such as ISTQB Foundation or Advanced Level.
• U.S. Citizenship with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or higher security clearance.

Responsabilités

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain automated tests for functional, regression, API, performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Build and enhance scalable test automation frameworks, reusable components, and testing standards that improve coverage and support frequent software releases.
• Translate requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria into traceable test cases and automated test scenarios.
• Apply test-driven development and shift-left testing practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Validate application functionality across development, integration, staging, pre-production, and production-like environments.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Harness or comparable orchestration tools.
• Establish automated quality gates to prevent defective, insecure, or noncompliant code from progressing through the delivery pipeline.
• Partner with DevSecOps and engineering teams to troubleshoot failed builds, test failures, environment issues, and deployment defects.
• Incorporate automated performance, security, API, and accessibility testing into continuous delivery workflows.
• Develop and maintain test plans, test cases, test scripts, test data, execution results, traceability records, and audit-ready testing documentation.
• Support updates to QA/QC plans, application test plans, test strategy documents, and applicable federal systems lifecycle documentation.
• Maintain accurate testing artifacts in Jira, Confluence, and other approved repositories.
• Ensure documentation is complete, current, auditable, and aligned with sprint and program increment delivery cadences.
• Support Section508 accessibility testing and preparation of related testing reports.
• Identify, document, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
• Perform root cause analysis of escaped defects, recurring quality issues, and failed production deployments.
• Track and report quality indicators, including automated test coverage, pass rates, defect volume and severity, escaped defects, failed tests, and deployment failures.
• Recommend corrective actions and process improvements based on testing results and quality trends.
• Help ensure sprint deliverables meet established definitions of done and acceptance criteria.
• Develop and execute performance, load, stress, and resilience tests to validate system responsiveness, stability, availability, and capacity.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity and engineering teams to validate remediation of security vulnerabilities and Plan of Action and Milestones items.
• Conduct automated and manual accessibility testing in accordance with Section 508 and applicable federal accessibility requirements.
• Help ensure applications appropriately protect personally identifiable and sensitive information.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement, program increments, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release activities.
• Collaborate with product owners and business analysts to define clear, testable acceptance criteria.
• Partner with engineers and architects to improve software testability, quality, and operational resilience.
• Support User Acceptance Testing, Independent Verification and Validation, third-party testing, and federal audit activities.
• Present test results, risks, quality trends, and recommendations to technical teams and program leadership.
• Mentor team members and promote consistent quality engineering and automation practices.

Connaissances

Java

Python

JavaScript

Selenium

Katalon

JMeter

Axe by Deque

Postman

Harness

GitHub Actions

Agile methodologies

Shift-left testing

FedRAMP/FISMA/NIST

Google Cloud

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or related field

Outils

Selenium

Description du poste

Northramp LLC is seeking a QA Automation Engineer to deliver secure, reliable software in a federal environment. You will design and maintain automated tests, integrate into CI/CD, and support audits and compliance across cloud-based applications.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years in software quality assurance, strong automation skills with Java/Python/JavaScript, and experience with Selenium, Katalon, JMeter, and Harness. Remote-friendly with occasional onsite in the DC area.