Remote QA Automation Test Engineer – Federal Apps

Aretum; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

401k

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Family Leave

Disability Insurance

Training & Development

Job summary

Aretum is seeking a QA Automation Test Engineer to support an Agile team delivering applications for a federal government client. The role covers planning, developing, and maintaining manual and automated test solutions to ensure quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability. Remote position with occasional travel under 10%.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in QA, 5+ years in automation, and strong experience with Playwright, Docker, and Azure DevOps. U.S.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in QA/testing.
• 5+ years of experience using automation tools to test systems and applications, and writing and executing test scripts.
• 3+ years of experience with automation testing tools, Playwright preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, execute, and maintain manual and automated test cases for web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.
• Develop and maintain test strategies, test plans, and testing approaches that support the level of automation needed for application quality and delivery objectives.
• Provide clear feedback by following the standard testing process, including writing detailed descriptions, acceptance criteria, identifying problems, and documenting steps in the ticketing system.
• Build and maintain reusable automated test scripts, utilities, and testing components that reduce repetitive testing efforts and improve testing efficiency.
• Design, implement, and support scalable test automation frameworks that enable consistent and maintainable automated testing across teams.
• Perform functional, regression, smoke, integration, end-to-end, and user story validation testing throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and Testers to determine quality expectations during backlog refinement and sprint planning.
• Contribute to the team's Definition of Done (DoD) by ensuring appropriate test coverage, successful test execution, and quality validation prior to story completion.
• Integrate automated testing into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines and leverage continuous integration practices to provide rapid feedback on code quality.
• Develop and execute load, performance, and scalability tests to validate application stability, reliability, and capacity under expected usage conditions.
• Analyze test results, identify defects and risks, measure test coverage, and provide actionable recommendations to improve overall software quality and release readiness.

Skills

Strong communication

Collaboration across teams

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Playwright

Docker

Azure DevOps

GraphQL testing

Job description

Aretum is seeking a QA Automation Test Engineer to support an Agile team delivering applications for a federal government client. The role covers planning, developing, and maintaining manual and automated test solutions to ensure quality, performance, accessibility, and reliability. Remote position with occasional travel under 10%.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in QA, 5+ years in automation, and strong experience with Playwright, Docker, and Azure DevOps. U.S.