Remote QA Engineer & SDET — AI-Driven Automation

Eliassen Group; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Pretax accounts

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET to join a federal-focused project on a contract basis. The role emphasizes CI/CD automated testing, AI-driven test scripting, and security validation across cloud-native Java services. Remote work is available with on-site options in Ashburn, VA or Gaithersburg, MD.

You will diagnose root causes, collaborate with Agile teams, and develop scalable QA systems, covering unit to performance testing, SAST/DAST, and lab environments. U.S.

Qualifications

• Test automation at scale with standards, methods, and QA systems.
• CI/CD-integrated automated testing using tools such as GitLab, Tekton, or Argo CD.
• AI-assisted testing for coding, requirements, test creation, debugging, and analysis.
• Hands-on with Playwright, JUnit/TestNG, REST and contract testing, and performance testing.
• Container and Kubernetes test harnesses across Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and Red Hat OpenShift.
• Security and compliance testing, including SAST/DAST/SCA/IaC scanning and policy-as-code.
• Experience in AWS, including multi-account/VPC patterns and segmentation.
• On-prem to AWS migration experience for containerized workloads and data tiers.
• Familiarity with FISMA High and FedRAMP High practices, STIGs, and NIST 800-53 controls.
• Linux proficiency and experience with Java-based application environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging in cloud and lab environments.
• Effective communication within Scaled Agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Perform software testing across unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and security domains.
• Develop test plans and create automated test scripts integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead AI-driven test-script generation and maintenance using modern AI tooling.
• Debug software issues, analyze failures, and determine root causes.
• Execute feature testing for cloud-native Java services on ECS, EKS, and OpenShift.
• Validate environments across Dev, Test, and Ops and manage lab setups.
• Integrate security and compliance testing, including SAST, DAST, and control validation.
• Collaborate directly with developers within Agile teams.
• Support continuous monitoring and evidence generation for ATO.

Skills

CI/CD automation

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST testing

Performance testing

AI-assisted testing

AWS

Kubernetes

Debugging

Agile communication

Tools

GitLab CI/CD

Tekton

Argo CD

ECS/EKS

OpenShift

SAST/DAST tools

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET to join a federal-focused project on a contract basis. The role emphasizes CI/CD automated testing, AI-driven test scripting, and security validation across cloud-native Java services. Remote work is available with on-site options in Ashburn, VA or Gaithersburg, MD.

You will diagnose root causes, collaborate with Agile teams, and develop scalable QA systems, covering unit to performance testing, SAST/DAST, and lab environments. U.S.