Remote SDET: AWS GovCloud Automated QA Engineer

GovCIO; United States; Remote; USD 62,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join cross-functional product teams building and modernizing federal digital services on AWS GovCloud. The role is remote within CONUS, with a focus on automation, testing strategy, and continuous quality across sprints and releases.

The SDET will design and implement tests, automate front-end and API testing, integrate coverage into CI/CD, and work with DevOps to maintain test environments in AWS GovCloud.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's with 2–5 years (or commensurate experience).
• The candidate must complete the paperwork promptly and pass the background check.
• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
• Must reside and work within the Continental United States (CONUS).
• Test automation (minimum): Cypress or Playwright plus at least one other framework. Selenium alone is not enough.
• Automated REST API testing with Postman or scripted tests.
• SQL for data validation. Python for test scripting and for working with data at scale.
• Able to test systems built on machine learning and deep learning, especially large language models and vision models.
• ML: training versus inference, overfitting, class imbalance, and gaps between lab results and production results.
• Experience testing in AWS environments, including S3 and CloudWatch.
• Agile testing in Scrum: story refinement, testability of acceptance criteria, definition of done, and pacing tests to close the sprint.
• Jira, Xray, and Confluence for test management and reporting.
• Full range of test techniques: positive and negative cases; white, black, and gray box; boundary value analysis and equivalence partitioning; use case testing; root cause analysis.
• Clear written and verbal communication. Gives specific technical answers, not generalities.
• Says plainly what they do not know. Writes short daily updates in Jira and writes their own user stories and tasks.
• Comfortable on voice and video calls with the team.
• Takes ownership and initiative without hand-holding.
• Willing to earn the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification within the first year if not already held.

Responsibilities

• Designs, develops, and implements testing methods and equipment to ensure that the product will perform to specifications.
• Plans and arranges the labor, schedules, and equipment required for testing and evaluating the product.
• Designs test cases for test plans and creates test scenarios in which tests are carried out.
• Compiles data, defines required changes and reports defects and problems that occurred during the test process.
• Automated testing may be used for leveling based on hiring manager discretion.
• Work as a full member of a Scrum team. Take part in sprint planning, backlog refinement, and design walkthroughs.
• Make user stories and acceptance criteria testable. Write your own stories and tasks.
• Design and run positive and negative tests: functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end.
• Find or create the test data. Pace the work so testing finishes inside the sprint.
• Build and maintain the automated test suites. Use Cypress and/or Playwright for the front end, Postman or scripted tests for REST APIs, and Locust for load and performance.
• Put the suites in the CI/CD pipeline with the DevOps engineers.
• Build and manage test environments on AWS GovCloud.
• Use Amazon S3 to check test data and artifacts. Use Amazon CloudWatch and Logs Insights queries for logs, metrics, and troubleshooting during test runs.
• Own regression testing for the product. Know how the system fits together.
• Decide what must be re-tested and in what order.
• Keep the regression suite current as the product changes.
• Audit the unit, contract, integration, and end-to-end tests the developers write.
• Work with them to improve coverage and quality.
• Check data in PostgreSQL and other data stores with SQL.
• Check JSON, XML, and file content with scripts.
• Test machine learning and deep learning features, measure accuracy at various levels, and set threshold-based acceptance criteria.

Skills

Test automation

Selenium

Python

Postman

SQL

AWS testing

Jira/Xray/Confluence

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Locust

Postman

Selenium

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join cross-functional product teams building and modernizing federal digital services on AWS GovCloud. The role is remote within CONUS, with a focus on automation, testing strategy, and continuous quality across sprints and releases.

The SDET will design and implement tests, automate front-end and API testing, integrate coverage into CI/CD, and work with DevOps to maintain test environments in AWS GovCloud.