Remote QA Engineer - Automation for Federal Systems

Accenture Federal Services; Washington; Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 169,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Federal Services in the United States seeks a quality‑focused software engineer specializing in test automation. You will design, build, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, and cloud‑based applications, partnering early with product and engineering teams to clarify acceptance criteria and improve testability.

As you grow, you may lead quality strategy across larger product areas, mentor engineers, and help shift quality left through CI/CD, performance, security, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with one or more automation frameworks or tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Appium, JUnit, PyTest, or comparable technologies.
• 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.

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 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 experience grows, lead quality strategy for larger product areas, improve frameworks and dashboards, mentor others, and establish quality engineering standards across teams.

Skills

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Appium

JUnit

PyTest

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Job description

Accenture Federal Services in the United States seeks a quality‑focused software engineer specializing in test automation. You will design, build, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, and cloud‑based applications, partnering early with product and engineering teams to clarify acceptance criteria and improve testability.

As you grow, you may lead quality strategy across larger product areas, mentor engineers, and help shift quality left through CI/CD, performance, security, and