Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Jobtailor; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a Senior QA Lead to establish enterprise testing and AI-assisted testing practices for Census Bureau systems. You will design standards, coverage, and traceability, and lead automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines. The role emphasizes collaboration with government stakeholders, engineers, cybersecurity, and contractors to ensure high-quality releases.

U.S. citizenship and ability to obtain clearance are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years leading testing for complex software applications.
• Hands-on experience with test-automation frameworks and testing tools.
• Experience integrating automated testing into Agile/DevSecOps pipelines.
• Experience with AI-assisted testing techniques.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship required; able to obtain clearance; background check; travel to DC area.

Responsibilities

• Establish and guide enterprise testing and AI-assisted testing practices for US Census Bureau systems.
• Develop and maintain test standards, procedures, plans, test cases, and traceability.
• Design test coverage for functional, integration, system, regression, performance, and UAT testing.
• Develop automated test suites, CI/CD quality gates, and continuous-testing capabilities.
• Evaluate AI-assisted techniques for test-case generation, coverage analysis, and test data.
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, and release-readiness assessments.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, engineers, cybersecurity, and contractors.
• Take on additional tasks to support team objectives.

Skills

Test-Automation Frameworks

AI-Assisted Testing Techniques

Continuous Testing

Agile and DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines

Defect Management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience

Tools

Testing Tools

Defect-Management Platforms

CI/CD Quality Gates

Synthetic Test Data Tools

Job description

• Establish and guide enterprise testing, quality engineering, automation, and AI-assisted testing practices for U.S. Census Bureau systems
• Establish enterprise testing standards, procedures, tools, comprehensive test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and requirements traceability practices
• Design test coverage for functional, integration, system, regression, performance, user acceptance, negative, boundary, and edge-case testing
• Develop and maintain automated test suites, validation frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and continuous-testing capabilities
• Evaluate and implement AI-assisted techniques for test-case generation, coverage analysis, synthetic test data, regression testing, defect analysis, and quality assurance
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, release-readiness assessments, test documentation, traceability reporting, and quality-control activities
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, program managers, engineers, architects, product owners, cybersecurity teams, and contractors
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and project success

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• At least five years of experience leading testing for complex software applications
• Extensive hands-on experience with test-automation frameworks, testing tools, defect-management platforms, and automated validation solutions
• Experience integrating automated testing, continuous testing, and quality gates into Agile and DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using AI-assisted testing techniques for test generation, automation development, regression testing, coverage analysis, or defect investigation
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and problem-solving skills
• Experience validating accuracy, consistency, repeatability, and reliability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to collaborate across technical, program, customer, and contractor teams
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Must successfully complete a background check
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including required fingerprinting, when required
• Must reside within the continental US
• Must be available to travel to the Washington, DC metropolitan area as needed
• No sponsorship available

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in establishing enterprise testing standards, automation practices, and AI-assisted testing techniques while leading defect triage and quality control activities. Proficient in collaborating with diverse teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and successful project outcomes.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Test-Automation Frameworks
• AI-Assisted Testing Techniques
• Continuous Testing
• Agile and DevSecOps CI/CD Pipelines
• Defect Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Test Coverage Design
• Automated Test Suites Development
• Validation Frameworks
• Regression Testing
• Root-Cause Analysis
• Quality Control Activities
• Test Documentation
• Requirements Traceability
• Performance Testing
• User Acceptance Testing

Soft Skills

• Analytical Skills
• Problem-Solving Skills
• Communication Skills
• Collaboration Skills

Industry Keywords

• U.S. Census Bureau
• Government/Public Trust Clearance
• Background Check
• Agile
• DevSecOps

Tools & Technologies

• Testing Tools
• Defect-Management Platforms
• CI/CD Quality Gates
• Synthetic Test Data