Remote Test Automation Engineer - Cloud & AI/ML QA

ICF; Reston (VA); Remote; USD 81,000 - 139,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF is seeking a test automation engineer within its Digital Modernization Division to advance a cloud-based data and AI/ML platform for federal clients. The role emphasizes automated testing, release validation, and quality gates across platform, application, and data work.

Remote work with occasional onsite in the DC metro area. You will collaborate with Agile Delivery Managers, SRE, and security teams to ensure secure, scalable releases and maintain traceability through evidence and

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship is required due to federal contract requirements.
• Candidate must reside in the U.S. and be authorized to work in the U.S.
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience aligned to the responsibilities of this role.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Quality Engineering, Computer Engineering, or related field; or a high school diploma with four (4) additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Implements automated testing, release validation, quality gates, rollback readiness checks, and release evidence capture for platform, application, data, and AI/ML work.
• Helps teams convert acceptance criteria into automated or repeatable tests and validates that releases meet functional, integration, security, accessibility, and load/performance expectations where applicable.
• Coordinates release readiness with Agile Delivery Managers, Functional Leads, and SRE.
• Apply Test automation, CI/CD quality gates, release validation, regression testing, integration testing, load testing, release evidence, and agile QA to support role delivery.
• Collaborate with relevant product, engineering, security, governance, quality, and customer-facing stakeholders as required by the role.
• Document work products, decisions, risks, and delivery evidence to support traceability and continuous improvement.

Skills

Test automation

CI/CD

Quality engineering

SRE collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IS/QA or related field

Master's degree substitution (2 years)

High school diploma + 4 years relevant experience

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

REST Assured

JMeter

LoadRunner

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

ICF is seeking a test automation engineer within its Digital Modernization Division to advance a cloud-based data and AI/ML platform for federal clients. The role emphasizes automated testing, release validation, and quality gates across platform, application, and data work.

Remote work with occasional onsite in the DC metro area. You will collaborate with Agile Delivery Managers, SRE, and security teams to ensure secure, scalable releases and maintain traceability through evidence and