Remote QA Engineer & SDET — AI-Driven CI/CD Testing

Eliassen Group; Santa Fe (NM); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Pre-tax accounts

Other voluntary benefits

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET to join a contract-based role focused on building scalable QA systems with CI/CD integration. The position emphasizes AI-driven test-script generation, cloud-native Java service testing, and stringent security/compliance validation within Linux and cloud environments.

The candidate will diagnose root causes, collaborate with developers in Agile teams, and support environment readiness from Dev to Ops, including ATO evidence generation.

Qualifications

• Experience with building scalable QA systems and standards.
• CI/CD-integrated automated testing using 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 ECS, EKS, and OpenShift.
• Security and compliance testing including SAST/DAST/SCA/IaC scanning.
• Experience in AWS multi-account/VPC patterns and segmentation.
• Linux proficiency and Java-based application environments.
• Strong debugging and collaboration in 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

Test automation

CI/CD testing

AI-assisted testing

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST testing

Performance testing

Kubernetes testing

AWS security

Linux

Java environments

Troubleshooting

Scaled Agile

Tools

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

REST testing

Performance testing

CI/CD tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET to join a contract-based role focused on building scalable QA systems with CI/CD integration. The position emphasizes AI-driven test-script generation, cloud-native Java service testing, and stringent security/compliance validation within Linux and cloud environments.

The candidate will diagnose root causes, collaborate with developers in Agile teams, and support environment readiness from Dev to Ops, including ATO evidence generation.