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

Eliassen Group; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 69,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET for a remote contract role in the United States. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable QA systems, focusing on CI/CD-integrated automated testing, AI-assisted test-script generation, and security validation for cloud-native Java services across Linux and cloud environments.

Collaborating with Agile teams, you will diagnose root causes, ensure compliance, and support monitoring for secure operations.

Qualifications

• Test automation at scale with standards, methods and QA systems.
• 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/OpenShift.
• Security and compliance testing including SAST/DAST/SCA/IaC scanning and policy-as-code.
• Experience in AWS with multi-account/VPC patterns and segmentation.
• Linux proficiency and Java-based application environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging in cloud and lab environments.

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 at scale

CI/CD automated testing

AI-assisted testing

Playwright

JUnit/TestNG

Linux proficiency

Tools

GitLab

Tekton

Argo CD

OpenShift

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a QA Engineer/SDET for a remote contract role in the United States. You will design, implement, and maintain scalable QA systems, focusing on CI/CD-integrated automated testing, AI-assisted test-script generation, and security validation for cloud-native Java services across Linux and cloud environments.

Collaborating with Agile teams, you will diagnose root causes, ensure compliance, and support monitoring for secure operations.