Remote Senior Test Automation Engineer – CI/CD & QA Leader

Clearwaters.IT; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Clearwaters.IT is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to create and maintain manual and automated test scripts, ensuring software quality. You will coordinate with developers and analysts to build test plans and artifacts in line with VA standards, lead CI/CD testing events, and manage defects in Jira/GitHub.

Requires 10+ years in manual/automation testing, strong scripting skills (Python/JavaScript), extensive QA tool experience, and U.S. eligibility for clearance.

Qualifications

• Must have experience creating test plans and test scripts with developers and end users.
• Extensive technical knowledge of IT products, operating systems, software, hardware, networks and environments.
• Experience writing or helping develop test plans and procedures; manage defect databases.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 10+ years in manual and automation testing; 8+ years can substitute education.
• Eligibility limited to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents; security clearance/public trust required.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills; experience coordinating test events.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and collaborate with developers and functional analysts to create test plans and scripts (manual and automated).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Ensure high quality and reliability of software
• Lead continuous integration and performance testing events
• Manage and track testing artifacts in GitHub, Jira, and related repositories
• Lead and conduct testing per Master Test Plan specifications
• Manage and assist staff test events with resources
• Identify and document defects
• Monitor and update defect reports in Jira
• Perform code reviews of scripts
• Execute manual and automated test scripts

Skills

Test planning coordination

Test script development

CI/CD

Cloud testing

Scripting languages

SQL

API testing

GitHub/JIRA use

Defect tracking

Analytical/problem-solving

Team collaboration

Independent research

Attention to detail

Customer service

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / related technical discipline

ISTQB (preferred)

Tools

Selenium

JMeter

TestNG

Cypress

Playwright

Postman

RestAssured

SoapUI

GitHub

Jira

TestRail

Bugzilla

HP ALM

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Job description

Clearwaters.IT is seeking a Senior Test Automation Engineer to create and maintain manual and automated test scripts, ensuring software quality. You will coordinate with developers and analysts to build test plans and artifacts in line with VA standards, lead CI/CD testing events, and manage defects in Jira/GitHub.

Requires 10+ years in manual/automation testing, strong scripting skills (Python/JavaScript), extensive QA tool experience, and U.S. eligibility for clearance.